Chris Watts Sentenced and Details About His Family's Death Comes Out.

Chris Watts was sentenced today, Monday, November 19th, 2018, to five life sentences, three consecutive and two concurrent, with no possibility of parole.
He also received an additional 48 years for the unlawful termination of his wife's pregnancy and 36 more years for crimes related to his disposal of the bodies.
With approval of his wife's family, prosecutors dropped the possibility of the death penalty.
Watts strangled his wife with his bare hands, deliberately and viciously for at least 2 minutes. 
Shanann didn't have any defensive wounds, only fingernail bruising to the side of her neck.
He then suffocated Bella and Celeste, Bella fighting back.
She also bit her tongue several times before she died.
He then backed his vehicle int the driveway, loaded up the bodies in three trips and drove them to a work site.
He buried his wife in a shallow grave before stuffing his daughters into tanks  a hatch 8 inches in diameter.
Bella had scratches on her left buttocks from being shoved through the hole.
When his coworkers arrived at the site later that morning, they described his behavior as perfectly normal. 
While local law enforcement searched for the woman and girls, Watts was texting his new girlfriend about their future.
A woman he had been dating told The Denver Post that he lied to her about being near the end of divorce proceedings.
The pair visited bars and museums.
 They visited the Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve in southern Colorado while Watts' wife was in North Carolina.
He had also researched secluded vacation spots in Aspen where he had planned to take the new girlfriend.
Shanann Watts noticed her husband's suspicious behavior.
She was getting alerts on her phone of credit cards being used at a restaurant in north Denver at a time that she was in North Carolina for amounts of money that one person couldn't possibly probably consume reasonably.
She confronted him numerous times and he was never completely forthcoming with her.
Shanann repeatedly texted her husband in the days before the murder.
She sent him self-help and relationship counseling books, one of which police discovered in the trash.
The morning his family vanished, he called his daughters’ school to dis enroll them, as well as a realtor to discuss selling his house.
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