Shanann Watts' fetus had been expelled from her body that was buried in shallow grave by husband Chris Watts
A complete autopsy of the victims of Chris Watts – his daughters Bella and Celeste, and wife Shanann Watts — revealed that Shanann's fetus had been expelled from her body, which was buried in a shallow grave.
Watts, a 33-year-old Colorado oil worker, killed his wife, Shanann, who was 15 weeks pregnant, along with his two daughters aged three and four on August 13, 2018. Watts, who had initially reported them missing and had made a public plea for their return, was arrested as he admitted to killing them. It was later discovered that Watts was having an affair with a fellow co-worker at the oil company. He dumped the bodies of his children in two oil tankers, where he worked. The bodies were found four days later. Shanann’s body was recovered from a shallow grave near the tankers.
The graphic autopsy reports, released by the Weld County Coroner, detailed the condition of all the three bodies that were recovered from an oil site owned by Anadarko Petroleum. All three autopsies cite the cause of death as the "asphyxiation due to manual strangulation by another individual. The manner of death is homicide." Shanann's autopsy, however, revealed a heartbreaking detail about the child she was carrying at the time of the murder.
