Chris Watts, who murdered wife and smothered his little girls as they begged for mercy, lives in fear of fellow inmates: They want to kill him
Chris Watts is in a hell of his own making as he serves a life sentence in a small cell in at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin.He hardly talks to anyone, instead choosing to read his Bible — and to ponder the wife and two young daughters he ruthlessly murdered in 2018.The Post has spoken to three people who have had contact with the 39-year-old killer behind bars — and they all say that he lives a sedentary lifestyle, has gained significant weight, and has lost most of his hair.
What’s more, the triple murderer often avoids eye contact with other inmates for his own safety.When he attends Bible studies, he often keeps to himself and doesn’t talk to new people.“A lot of guys would like to get their hands on him,” said Eddie Nieves, who spent a year at the prison alongside Watts.
“He killed two little girls who didn’t do nothing to deserve it.He’s the lowest of the low at Dodge.
A lot of people want to get their revenge for those girls.” Watts admitted to strangling his pregnant wife Shanann in their Colorado home in August 2018.He then drove her body to a job site at the oil company where he worked and disposed of it.He returned home and then smothered his daughters — Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3 — as the little girls begged for mercy.After he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Colorado prison officials arranged to have him transferred to Wisconsin for his safety.“They protect him at Dodge,” Nieves continues.
“If the guards weren’t always around, everyone would take a swing at him.” Those sentiments are echoed by Watts’ former cellmate from 2018-2020, who said that Watts is often in danger behind bars.“He’s an outcast,” said Dylan Tallman, who worked on a yet-unpublished devotional book with Watts.
“When people found out that his victims were two little girls, they wanted to kill him.He had nowhere else to turn; I think I was his only friend.” Autho...