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.
“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.
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who said that Watts is often in danger behind bars.“He’s an outcast,” said Dylan Tallman, who worked on a yet-unpublished devotional book with Watts.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.”
A spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections said that Watts has had no scheduled visitors for several weeks. He occasionally receives a pastoral visit. His mother visited him earlier this year.“At times, when he would talk about the murders, his eyes would turn so black,” his one-time pen pal Cherlyn Cadle