That����ap according to the Oxygen network, which is touting its Dec. 7 season premiere as the first time that lead investigators at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation have spoken publicly about the case of convicted murderer Chris Watts.

As The Denver Post has reported, a steady stream of documentaries and television shows have continued to examine the 2018 murders that rocked the small town of Frederick, about 30 miles north of Denver. Chris Watts was convicted after confessing to the murder of Shanann Watts and her two young daughters.

“Viewers will hear first-hand accounts on how (investigators) worked tirelessly to secure the ultimate confession putting Watts behind bars,” according to a press release.

The 90-minute show will air at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7 on Oxygen.

“For the past two seasons, we have given viewers an inside look into the investigation of criminals, with an emphasis on the psychological component of confessions,” said Wolf, the creator of the “Law and Order” franchise. “Our third season will be even better, and will continue to give crime buffs insight into a side of police work that has never been examined before.”

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The house at 2825 Saratoga Trail will be auctioned Jan. 8, for failure to pay principal and interest. The continuation marks the third since the original April 17 auction date, which was moved to Sept. 18, then Oct. 23 and finally, next year.

On Nov. 6, Christopher Watts pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder, three counts of tampering with a corpse and unlawful termination of a pregnancy in connection with the August 2018 deaths of his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. On Nov. 19, he was for their deaths.

Online records show the home was purchased in 2013. The Weld County filing also indicates that Christopher Watts owes $349,938.09 on the five-bedroom, four-bath home.

Public Trustee Susie Velasquez said she couldn’t speak to why the auction date had been continued, emphasizing that the decision is up to the law firm, McCarthy & Holthus, LLP, which represents the lender JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

When asked about the reason for the delay, David Owen, chief administrative officer for Mcarthy & Holthus LLP, said the company was “not at liberty to discuss pending litigation.” JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. did not respond to requests for comment.

that he killed his wife and smothered his daughters. Shanann Watts was buried in a shallow grave and the bodies of Celeste and Bella were dumped in oil tanks on an Anadarko Petroleum Co. site near Roggen. Chris Watts had worked for the oil company before his arrest.

Autopsy reports showed that Shanann Watts and her daughters died of asphyxiation.

Since the tragedy, the home, located in the Wyndham Hill neighborhood has sat vacant. Neighbors and people across the state brought stuffed animals and flowers to the home to pay tribute to Shanann Watts and Bella and Celeste.

A bidding amount will be announced two days prior to the sale date in January, according to Velasquez.

Christopher Watts is serving his life sentence in a Wisconsin prison.

A year after the murders of Shanann Watts and her two young daughters, the Weld County District Attorney’s Office continues to receive dozens of emails and messages every week about the case from curious people across the globe.

Along with the continued inquiries, a steady stream of documentaries and television shows have devoted time to the murders that rocked the small town of Frederick. The community is still grappling with the impact of the killings.

“Almost one year ago, tragedy struck the Town of Frederick placing our peaceful community in the national spotlight,” a town spokeswoman said in a statement emailed to The Denver Post. “Our resilient and close-knit community, town staff and police department continue to mourn the loss of Shanann Watts and her children.”

The case began Aug. 13, 2018, when a friend of Shanann called Frederick police to report the mother and her two daughters missing. Frederick police quickly responded to the home to investigate, where they met Christopher Watts, Shannan’s husband and the father of 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella.

Watts repeatedly said he did not know where his family had gone. But the facts didn’t make sense to the investigators: Why would Shanann leave her phone at home? And why hadn’t anybody heard from her?

Investigators invited Watts for an interview after talking with family and friends. After failing a polygraph test, Watts confessed to killing Shanann, who was pregnant, in the early hours of Aug. 13. He also lied and said that he killed her after watching her kill their daughters. He told investigators where to find the bodies of his family.

Within a few days of the missing persons report, the case attracted international media attention.

The ensuing court case lasted less than two months. Before even his arraignment, Watts pleaded guilty to the crimes on Nov. 6 as part of a deal with prosecutors to escape the death penalty. Two weeks later, he received three consecutive life sentences.

After a brief stint at the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center, the Colorado Department of Corrections transferred Watts to a prison in Wisconsin. Watts later told investigators that he feared for his life in the Weld County jail, where other inmates threatened him.

In February, investigators interviewed Watts at the Wisconsin prison to learn more about what actually happened the day of the crime. Watts confessed to killing his daughters along with his wife. The details haunted investigators. And while the interview finally explained how the crimes were committed, it did not give a reason why.

Even though the court case is over, public interest remains high. The case has since resurfaced in other conversations, including at the legislature this year as state lawmakers considered repealing the death penalty.

Besides an appearance on Dr. Phil, Shanann’s family has remained private. Her father, Frank Rzucek, gave a statement in July to local television stations asking that online harassment of his family stop.

The Rzuceks’ wrongful death lawsuit against Watts remains ongoing in Weld County District Court. Watts did not respond to the suit and the court in May found him in default, which means that the Rzuceks will likely win.

One year after the murders of Shanann, Bella and Celeste Watts, their Frederick house sits empty, waiting for a public auction in September.

Abandoned house notices are taped to a front door surrounded by stuffed animals, flowers and balloons placed there in recent days as the one-year anniversary of their deaths approached.

The five-bedroom, four-bathroom house, built in 2013, will go up for auction at 10 a.m. Sept. 18 in Greeley, according to Weld County Trustee records. The home is in default, records show.

Neighbors have tried to move on, though some say they think often about the killings.

Several neighbors were afraid to talk to The Denver Post for fear of harassment from supporters of Christopher Watts, who killed his wife inside the home on Aug. 13, 2018 and then later that day smothered his two daughters in a rural Weld County oil field.

Others who live close to the house at 2825 Saratoga Trail worried about their property values, including one who is planning to retire and put his house on the market in a couple of weeks. Others still were struggling to comprehend the killings and how someone they thought they knew could carry out something so heinous.

Several neighbors, including Joanie Wakeman, suggested the Watts’ house be torn down and turned into a park and memorial for Shanann, Celeste and Bella Watts.

The intense activity from media trucks and visitors to the neighborhood has died down, or as Wakeman, a self-proclaimed news junkie, called it: the ever-present chaos. And even though Wakeman doesn’t drive by the Watts’ house, the murders weigh on her.

“There probably is a sense of being a little more guarded,” Wakeman said.

Although Wakeman isn’t worried about her own home’s value — she lives a street over from the Watts’ house — she knows that neighbors who are closer have those concerns. On her street, a family moved into the neighborhood a couple of months ago.

The Watts bought the 4,177 square foot house in April 2013 with a $392,709 loan, according to real estate records. The outstanding balance on the loan is $349,938. The home is valued at $583,500, according to realtor.com.

The house went into default in December, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, the lender, has 12 months to sell it, Weld County Public Trustee Suzie Velasquez said. If the house went into bankruptcy, the timeline to sell would be extended.

So far, Velasquez said she hasn’t received any inquiries from potential buyers. She holds sales until a house is sold, and sometimes, houses sell within minutes, while others take longer. Foreclosure homes are routinely continued, she said.

The house would be considered psychologically-impacted or stigmatized property, and Colorado law protects real estate agents from disclosing crimes that occurred in the house, or even potential ghosts, unless the seller chooses to do so, said HomeSmart Cherry Creek Properties realtor Tara King.

King acknowledged that in a case as highly-publicized as this one, potential buyers likely will know about the murders or will find out in a Google search.

“It may be in a seller’s best interest to disclose up front, but some choose not to do that,” she said. While it creates anxiety for buyers, it does not give buyers a right to terminate a contract.

There, he buried his wife in a shallow grave and then killed his daughters with his bare hands before dumping their bodies in an oil tank.

Here is how the murder investigation, which attracted international attention, unfolded.

Aug. 13, 2018 — Christopher Watts kills his wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, in their suburban Frederick home. He drives her body to a Weld County oil site, along with the couple’s children, 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella. He kills the children at the site, operated by Anadarko, and conceals the bodies of all three.

That afternoon, a friend of Shanann reports the mother and children missing to Frederick police after Shanann doesn’t respond to texts and calls. A search ensues.

Aug. 14 — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation activates an Endangered Missing Alert when Shanann and the girls still remain missing. That day, Watts in an interview with Denver7 News.

Aug. 15 — Watts confesses to killing Shannan after failing a polygraph test at the Frederick Police Department. He did not confess to killing his daughters and instead lied to police, saying that his wife killed the girls. Investigators arrested Watts immediately after the interview.

Aug. 16 — Investigators recover the bodies of Shanann, Bella and Celeste from the Weld County oil site. Watts worked at the site as an operator for Anadarko.

Nichol Kessinger, who had been dating Watts since June, tells police in an interview that she thinks the family’s troubled finances were the biggest factor in Watts killing his wife and children. Later that day, Watts appears in Weld County District Court for a bond hearing.

Aug. 21 — Watts appears in court, where he learned of the charges filed against him.

Sept. 1 — Shannan, Bella and Celeste are buried in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Shannan’s family described her as an ambitious, outgoing woman who always wanted to be a mother.

Nov. 6 — In an unexpected move, Watts pleads guilty to all nine charges in the case as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty.

Nov. 19 — Watts receives three consecutive life sentences in the murders, which the judge called the “most inhumane and vicious” he had ever handled. Prosecutors revealed new details at the hearing, including how Bella fought back as she was smothered. Watts’ motive remained unclear.

The same day, Shanann’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their former son-in-law.

December — Watts is moved to a Wisconsin prison due to safety concerns.

Feb. 18, 2019 — In a follow-up interview with Colorado law enforcement, Watts confesses for the first time to killing his daughters. He offers a detailed explanation of how he killed his family, but still little explanation as to why he did it.

July 22 — Shanann’s father, Frank Rzucek, returns to Colorado to plead for online bullies to stop harassing his family.

District attorneys across the state disagree on whether the death penalty is effective, how it should be used — if at all — and how the state should decide whether to repeal it. At least three elected prosecutors support a bill to end execution in the state, enough of a shift from a decade ago that the statewide district attorneys’ council no longer takes a stance on the issue.

The district attorneys’ debate comes as the state legislature considers a bill that would repeal the death penalty in Colorado. The Senate will vote as soon as Wednesday on the bill; the House has not yet considered it.

At the crux of the divide, district attorneys disagree on whether the possibility of the death penalty is necessary to facilitate plea deals on potential capital cases and avoid lengthy, costly murder trials. Without the death penalty, more defendants will be able to plead to second-degree murder, district attorneys who oppose repeal warned, though they clarified that they wouldn’t seek death in a case that didn’t merit it simply to obtain a plea.

“Without this tool that we have at our disposal right now, reserved for the worst of the worst, those pleas simply don’t happen,” said Republican Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke, citing the recent case of a Frederick man who pleaded guilty to murdering his family to avoid the death penalty. “Chris Watts doesn’t have an incentive at that point.”

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The vast majority of all criminal cases are resolved by plea deals, including murder cases, said District Attorney Dave Young, a Democrat who represents Adams and Broomfield counties and opposes the repeal. He is pursuing the death penalty against a man charged with killing Adams County sheriff’s Deputy Heath Gumm.

“We would not be able to do that without leverage,” he said. “The whole legal system is based on leverage — not just criminal cases.”

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann disputed that analysis and said convictions shouldn’t rely on the prospect of the death penalty, but instead on the strength of the evidence in the case. McCann has said publicly that she will not seek the death penalty in any case because she morally opposes it, and she has said the decision has not affected her ability to convict.

“I really don’t view it as a bargaining chip, if you will,” McCann said in an interview.

Research on the effect the death penalty has on plea bargains is relatively sparse.

One 1995 study of cases in New York found that the threat of execution did not increase defendants’ likelihood of pleading guilty but did convince them to agree to harsher punishments. A 2013 study of cases in Georgia found that the death penalty but did not save the state money.

Ten years ago, the Colorado District Attorneys’ Council . For the last decade, however, the council representing the state’s 22 district attorneys has not taken a position on attempts to end the death penalty because there is no longer a super majority who agree, said Tom Raynes, the council’s executive director.

“We have not had that level of agreement on the death penalty since I have been here,” said Raynes, who started at the council in 2010.

Three Democratic district attorneys — McCann, Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty, and Bruce Brown, who represents Summit, Lake, Eagle and Clear Creek counties — told The Denver Post or have publicly stated that they oppose the death penalty. Eight have said they support the death penalty, and the remaining did not respond before deadline for a request for comment on the issue. About 60 percent of the district attorneys are Republicans.

Nationally, district attorneys often are split along rural and urban lines about the future of the death penalty, said David LaBahn, president and CEO of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. Those who represent suburban areas with little crime tend to support the death penalty because murders there often garner more attention and deeply disturb the community’s sense of safety.

“Most everyone who has touched death penalty cases don’t do it with a zest and a zeal,” he said. “It’s an incredible amount of reluctance. Everything else we do is to protect people and restore life.”

Even among those district attorneys who oppose the death penalty, McCann stands out for her decision to not pursue the penalty in any case, LaBahn said. Many others who don’t believe in the death penalty believe they still must use it when applicable because it is the law.

“She is one of the few to flat-out say, ‘I know this is the law but I won’t do it,’ ” LaBahn said.

McCann faced criticism for that decision from her peers in Colorado, who said they believe district attorneys have an ethical obligation to pursue the death penalty if it is appropriate because it is state law.

“When I raised my right hand to take an oath to uphold and defend Colorado’s laws, there was no asterisk there,” said Republican District Attorney George Brauchler, who represents Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties and opposes repeal.

McCann said the law grants her broad discretion to make that decision.

“If my constituents feel that we’re not prosecuting aggressively enough, that’s something they can decide at the voting booth,” she said.

The district attorneys who oppose the bill argued that the decision on the death penalty should not be made by the General Assembly and instead be put to a referendum vote of the entire state, which have been unsuccessful recently in other states.

Christopher Watts told investigators in a new prison interview that he strangled his wife Shanann in bed, loaded her body into the backseat of his truck with their two daughters — who were still alive — and drove out to a Weld County oil site, where he smothered the girls to death.

The confession, made to investigators during a Feb. 18 interview at a Wisconsin prison and detailed in a report released Thursday by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, is the first time Watts has confessed publicly to killing his daughters, Bella and Celeste.

Watts said he woke Shanann up the morning of Aug. 13 as he was getting ready for work because he wanted to talk. He straddled her on the bed while they discussed their marriage and future. Shanann confronted him about her suspicions that he was having an affair, which he denied. He told her that their marriage wasn’t going to last and that he didn’t love her.

Shanann told Watts that he would never see the kids again, he told investigators. Watts then strangled his pregnant wife.

Their 4-year-old daughter Bella walked in the room, holding her blanket, and asked what was wrong with her mom. Watts wrapped his wife in a sheet and dragged Shanann down the stairs and put her on the floorboard of his truck. Bella started to cry and her younger sister, Celeste, woke up.

He put the girls in the backseat of his truck and drove to the well site. He told investigators he thought about killing all of them — including himself — while he drove.

When they arrived, he took his wife’s body out of the truck. He then smothered Celeste, 3, in the backseat of the truck. He dumped her body in an oil tank while 4-year-old Bella watched. After watching what happened to her sister, Bella asked, “Is the same thing gonna happen to me as Cece?”

Watts then used a blanket to smother Bella, who fought back. He put her in a separate oil tank and buried Shanann nearby.

He told investigators that he doesn’t know what he was thinking at the time. He said he felt like “something else” was controlling him that day.

“This was like the epitome of being angry, the epitome of showing a rage, the epitome of losing your mind,” he said.

“I was absolutely sickened”

Six months ago, Watts stood on the front porch of his house in Frederick and told a local television reporter that he didn’t know where his pregnant wife and two young daughters had gone. They’d been reported missing on Aug. 13. He pleaded for them to come home.

Watts first admitted to killing Shanann to his father in a tearful conversation in a Frederick Police Department interview room. He said that he killed Shanann after witnessing her attempting to strangle Celeste and seeing Bella apparently dead on a baby monitor. He recounted the version of events to investigators shortly after.

In the Feb. 18 interview, Watts said he never thought to say that Shanann killed the girls until law enforcement introduced the idea to him during an interview.

A Weld County judge sentenced Watts to multiple life sentences in November for the murders of Shanann, Bella and Celeste. Watts previously pleaded guilty to the killings in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.

After the sentencing, Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said investigators still didn’t understand Watts’s motive for killing his family. Watts’s father, Ronnie Watts, also said at the sentencing that he didn’t understand why his son committed the crimes.

“I hope one day, Christopher, you can help us,” Ronnie Watts said that day.

Rourke said Thursday he had chosen not to read the report or listen to the audio of Watts’s confession, but had been briefed on it by investigators.

“When I got the briefing, it was the day after the interview was done, I was absolutely sickened, I was horrified,” he said.

He said that he and his office had thought of multiple scenarios of what could have happened during the case’s prosecution, but that this was so much worse.

“What boggles my mind and baffles me is why did he have to kill those little girls?” Rourke said. “Did he think they would rat him out? Did they become a nuisance? No words that come out of his mouth will ever answer that for me. I hope his life is miserable.”

“They said that they love you”

One of the attorneys representing Shanann’s parents, Greeley-based Steven Lambert, on Tuesday said he could not discuss the interview until next week because of an exclusivity agreement he signed with the “Dr. Phil” television show. The show aired interviews with Lambert and the family’s other attorneys Tuesday. Interviews with Shanann’s parents are expected to run next week.

Shanann’s parents told investigators that they don’t hate Watts, Frederick police detective Dave Baumhover said in the Feb. 18 interview.

“They said that they love you, they still love you,” Baumhover said. “And Sandy explained it: ‘He’s our son-in-law for eight years and we can’t just turn that off.’ So they don’t hate you.”

Watts told investigators that he feared for his life during his stay at the Weld County Jail and other Colorado correctional facilities. He said the other inmates at the Weld jail would yell at him from their cells, telling him to kill himself and threatening him. He was transferred to the Wisconsin facility shortly after his sentencing.

In the interview, he also denied having affairs or even knowing a man from Wyoming who said they had an affair and a woman from Colorado who claimed they once met in a Chik-Fil-A parking lot and had sex.

He did explain more details of his affair with a former co-worker, Nichol Kessinger. He said he wished they had never had a romantic relationship and that he never thought his marriage was bad before meeting her. He said that Kessinger knew he was married but that he lied to her and said he was pursuing a separation before he and Shanann had ever talked about it.

He said Kessinger would get upset about being “second fiddle” to Shanann, but never asked him to get rid of his family or play any part in their murders. He said they had not spoken since his arrest.

Watts said he regrets what he did. He keeps photos of Shanann, Bella and Celeste in his cell and “talks to them every morning and every night,” he told investigators. He has one of Celeste’s books in his cell.

Watts said he was ready to plead guilty to the crimes just weeks after his arrest. He told his defense attorneys the full story of what happened shortly after his arrest, he said.

He said he didn’t want to fight the charges because he didn’t want to extend the process or make his and Shanann’s families wade through the court process.

“I didn’t want them to go through this for two to four years,” he said. “I didn’t want my attorneys to lie for me for two to four years.”

Watts said he did not regret taking the deal, though he didn’t expect to be in prison for the rest of his life. He will not have the opportunity for parole.

Family and friends have described Shanann as ambitious and a “fireball” and said she loved being a mom. The girls were friendly and loved their parents. Photos posted of Bella and Celeste online by Shanann show the girls snuggling with their mom, making goofy faces at the camera and celebrating birthdays.

Shanann, Bella, Celeste and the couple’s unborn son — to be named Nico — were buried next to each other in North Carolina in September.

Content warning: This report contains details of murder and domestic violence that might be disturbing or harmful to some readers.

Chris Watts strangled his wife, Shanann, after the coupled had argued and Watts admitted to his wife that he was having an affair, according to dialogue on Tuesday’s episode of the Dr. Phil show.

When Chris, on Aug. 13 at their Frederick home, told Shanann that their marriage was over, that he wanted a divorce, her response was: “You’re not going to see the kids again.”

That’s when Chris Watts strangled his wife to death, according to show interviews.

Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, the show’s host, sat down with the “legal team” of Shanann’s parents, Frank and Sandi Rzucek. The information and material discussed was passed along to the legal team by Sandi based on a five-hour post-conviction interview Watts gave to investigators on Feb. 18 in a Wisconsin prison.

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Watts is serving a life sentence for the murders. Audio of his exchange with Colorado Bureau of Investigation, FBI and Frederick police investigators will be released Thursday in compliance with Colorado Open Records Act requests.

Watts was wrapping the lifeless body of Shanann in a sheet when their daughter, 4-year-old Bella, walked into the room.

“What are you doing with momma?” the child asked. Watts told the girl Shanann is sick and they are going to take her to the hospital, according to show interviews.

Loading the wrapped body in his truck, Watts took his daughters with him for a 45-minute ride to a remote oil-and-gas field work site in Weld County. Once there, Watts smothered 3-year-old Celeste, known to family and friends as CeeCee, with her favorite blanket as Bella watched, a family attorney told McGraw.

Watts removed Celeste from the truck. When he returned for Bella the girl had unbuckled herself from her seat. “Please daddy, do not do to me what you just did to Cee Cee,” Bella pleaded with her father.

Shanann’s body was buried in a shallow grave. The girls’ bodies were dumped in an oil tank.

The hour-long episode of the Tuesday show was entitled, “Chris Watts’ full confession. His daughter’s final words.” Frank and Sandi Rzucek, along with Shanann’s brother, Frank Jr., will appear on Dr. Phil on Monday.

Portions of the Tuesday show used news video clips and segments on the case which drew national attention. Video clips, photos and social media segments of the family in happy times were also shown.

Initially, Watts claimed Shanann had run off with the children. He gave video interviews to police investigators and news outlets. On television, he begged for his family’s return. He was arrested two days after the murders.

“It’s like a nightmare I can’t wake up from,” Watts said in a video clip before his arrest. “I want the kids back, so bad.”

McGraw and the attorneys, four in all, pick apart Watts’ video pleadings. Watts, for the most part, is not using any of his victims’ names, and he talks of them, in most cases, in past tense. It’s an attempt at “distancing himself” from the murders, McGraw said.

Bella “was going to be starting kindergarten,” Watts says in a clip. McGraw notes that Watts used “was,” the past tense, because he knew that wasn’t going happen. Watts shook his head in the negative, from side to side, when he talked of getting his children back. All signs that tipped off investigators, the host and panel agreed.

Before confessing and entering a guilty plea in the case, Watts had tried to blame the girls’ murders on Shanann. He initially told investigators that she killed the children and he killed her in a fit of rage.

Shanann was a “good and loving mother,” said McGraw, toward the show’s conclusion. “That is the message we want to leave with America.”

“One-hundred percent, she was never capable of harming the children,” an attorney said earlier.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that investigators from CBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Frederick Police Department met with Watts on Feb. 18 “for the purpose of developing further insight into the case.”

Prison visitation records show that three investigators visited with Watts starting just after 8:30 a.m. that day.

The CBI says that an audio recording of the interview and a written report would be released next Thursday, March 7 via the Colorado Open Records Act for those who have requested the files.

Though the release from CBI Thursday did not disclose any further details about what Watts unveiled in the interview, the Greeley Tribune reports, citing sources close to the investigation, that Watts told investigators how and why he murdered his family – something he himself had not outright discussed previously.

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Convicted murderer Chris Watts’ visitors log from a Wisconsin prison shows law enforcement visiting him on Feb. 18, the day the Colorado Bureau of Investigation says it got more information from him about the killings of his wife and two daughters.

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The Weld County Public Trustee posted a notice on Dec. 17, 2018, that the house at 2825 Saratoga Trail will be sold off to the highest bidder on April 17 for failure to pay principal and interest.

According to the filing, Watts owes $349,938.09 on the five-bedroom, four-bath home. Documents show the Watts bought the house in 2013 for $392,709.

According to the Weld County Assessor’s Office, the property was valued at $484,339 in a 2018 real property notice.

Watts was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree murder, three counts of tampering with a corpse and unlawful termination of a pregnancy in the deaths of his 34-year-old pregnant wife Shanann Watts and daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.

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