Police don't believe his story and he was charged with three counts of first degree murder, two counts of first degree murder of a child under 12 while in a position of trust and three counts of tampering with bodies

The man accused of killing his wife and two young daughters claimed his wife strangled the little girls and he killed her in revenge, it was revealed late Monday.

But police did not believe his story and Christopher Watts now faces nine felony charges — including five murder charges.

Watts initially told police that he had informed his wife Shanann Watts that he wanted a separation and he then went downstairs.

He claimed he watched on the baby monitor as his wife killed one of the two daughters she had struggled so desperately to conceive.

‘He observed Bella ‘sprawled’ out on her bed and blue and Shanann actively strangling Celeste,' an affidavit unsealed on Monday in Greeley, Colorado, revealed.

‘Chris said he went into a rage and ultimately strangled Shanann to death.

‘Chris said he loaded all three bodies onto the back seat of his work truck and took them to an oil work site,’ added the affidavit.

After a two-day investigation, police discovered that Watts ‘was actively involved in an affair with a co-worker,’ something he had initially denied.

His claim that it was Shanann who killed his daughters is likely the reason that his court-appointed defense lawyer Megan Ring had asked for DNA swabs to be taken from the girls’ necks.

Police had originally been notified that Shanann was missing by her workmate Nickole Atkinson, who had been on a business trip to Arizona with her, returning early in the morning of August 13.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6080519/Colorado-man-charged-NINE-felony-counts-including-three-counts-degree-murder.html

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