Where Is Nichol Kessinger? Here’s What Happened To Chris Watts’ Mistress
When Nichol Kessinger and Chris Watts started dating in June 2018, sparks flew immediately. Watts claimed that his mistress, whom he met at work, showed him more respect than his own family and left him completely mesmerized. So in August, he murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters — to be with Kessinger forever.
Watts even staged his family’s disappearance to make it look like they left on their own. While authorities saw through this charade rather quickly, one mystery remained: How involved was Chris Watts’ girlfriend in all of this?
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When Nichol Kessinger and Chris Watts started dating in June 2018, sparks flew immediately. Watts claimed that his mistress, whom he met at work, showed him more respect than his own family and left him completely mesmerized. So in August, he murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters — to be with Kessinger forever.
Watts even staged his family’s disappearance to make it look like they left on their own. While authorities saw through this charade rather quickly, one mystery remained: How involved was Chris Watts’ girlfriend in all of this?
As chronicled in Netflix’s new American Murder: The Family Next Door documentary, Kessinger cooperated with the police, which helped ensure that Watts would go to prison for life. So some adamantly defend Chris Watts’ mistress as a well-intentioned woman who fell in love with a killer.
However, others believe she was just as culpable for the murders as Watts himself. As he languishes behind bars, let’s take a look at what Chris Watts’ girlfriend really knew — and where she is now.
Chris Watts Murders His Family
In the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 2018, Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shan’ann and their two daughters Bella and Celeste. Local media descended on the family home after their disappearance. Meanwhile, Watts shamelessly begged on camera for the safe return of his family.
While Kessinger was reportedly in love with Watts and convinced he was leaving his wife for her, something felt off as soon as she heard the news of his family’s disappearance. Not only did she learn that the wife and kids were missing, she also found out that Shan’ann was pregnant.
Documents reveal that Kessinger actually reached out to authorities about the affair before they ever contacted her. However, she also deleted all of Watts’ information from her phone before she met with the police.
“I wonder if there’s more to this story than I know because I think he’s a really good guy, and you know, I’m worried about his wife and kids,” she told police. “And it’s just freaking me out because those little girls are just so little, and she’s pregnant, you know? And it’s like where’s their mom?”
Little did Chris Watts’ mistress know, all three of them were already dead — because he wanted to be with her instead.
The bombshell confession from Kessinger helped police tremendously when it came to solving this crime. They quickly found cards, photos, and letters the couple had sent each other and determined that Watts had been planning to start a new life outside of his marriage.
As for Watts, he initially claimed his family had left him, but that story later changed — and worsened. He first confessed to strangling Shan’ann after catching her killing their daughters. Months later, he admitted that he killed his entire family after telling his wife he was leaving her. As chronicled in Cherlyn Cadle’s Letters from Christopher, Watts’ crimes were ghastly.
After strangling his wife and attempting to smother his children, he drove Shan’ann’s body and his barely-alive daughters to one of the remote Anadarko oil fields. He dumped his wife in a shallow grave and again smothered three-year-old Celeste in her own blanket, before shoving her body through an eight-inch hatch — into one of the tankers.
“I couldn’t believe how easy it was to just let her drop through the hole and let her go,” he said of Celeste. “I heard the splash as she hit the oil.”
Four-year-old Bella realized what her father had done, and surprised him by putting up a fight. Watts later said, “I will hear her soft little voice for the rest of my life, saying, ‘Daddy, NO!’ She knew what I was doing to her. She may not have understood death, but she knew I was killing her.”
Tragically, he persisted through her screams and murdered her. All the while, Watts thought only of one thing — Nichol Kessenger.
“All I could feel was now I was free to be with Nikki,” he said. “Feelings of my love for her was overcoming me. I felt no remorse.”
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