Despite being locked up for the horrific murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters, it hasn’t stopped Chris Watts from gaining an army of warped admirers.

The 38-year-old killer is currently serving five life sentences at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, after being convicted of taking the lives of his pregnant wife Shanann, 34, and their children Bella, four, and Celeste, three.

In August 2018, he strangled the mother of his children to death before smothering the two little girls in a bid to escape his family in favour of starting a new life with his mistress Nichol Kessinger.

The dad then drove the three bodies to the site of an oil and gas company – the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation – where he had worked, which was situated around 40 miles away from their family home in Frederick, Colorado.

After arriving, Watts buried Shanann and their unborn child in a shallow grave before dumping his daughters in crude oil barrels close by.

Although he had tried to cover his tracks – and even gave TV interviews begging for his family’s return – the dad later pleaded guilty to the three murders and was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.

Chris Watts is serving five life sentences for the murders. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The chilling case was covered in the hit Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, while Watts even penned handwritten letters which included horrific details about his crimes.

But despite all of this being public knowledge, Watts was somehow still winning women over from behind bars.

While imprisoned, the murderer began to receive loads of letters from a number of female admirers who had fallen for him, while they were seemingly undeterred by his terrifying track record.

Saucy correspondence – and bikini snaps – were sent to the convict from ladies who reckon he is a ‘great guy’.

Prosecutors from the Weld County District Attorney previously revealed he had been sent ‘dozens’ of bizarre letters,

which Crime Online described as ‘racy’, while disclosing some of the strange messages people wrote to him.

He killed his pregnant wife Shanann and their daughters Bella and Celeste (Netflix)

According to ABC7, one woman wrote: “In my heart, I know you are a great guy.

“If you do write me back I’d be the happiest girl alive, that’s for sure #teamchris #chrisisinnocent #lovehim #socute.”

Another wrote: “I’ve found myself thinking a lot about you,” alongside a photo of herself wearing a bikini.

A third woman then told Watts she was ‘hoping to brighten his days’.

The killer, who reportedly works as a prison custodian at at the maximum-security facility where he is held, is said to have started replying to the women hoping to build a romantic connection shortly after the Netflix doc aired.

A source told PEOPLE that Chris has been writing back to people who sent him ‘fan mail’.

A string of women have wrote Watts doting letters. (Weld County District Attorney)

“Some of the letters are angry. A lot of them are from people of faith who want to pray for him,” they said.

“But then he gets letters from women who want to connect with him, you know, romantically. He responds because he doesn’t have anything better to do.”

Although the whole thing sounds completely sick and unbelievable, don’t forget that Ted Bundy and Charles Manson also had groupies swooning over them.

The psychological term for falling in love with a cold-blooded killer is hybristophilia, which describes a sexual attraction to people who’ve committed gruesome crimes.

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Convicted murderer Chris Watts described his plans to end the lives of his pregnant wife and two daughters in a series of sickening letters from prison.

Chris is currently serving three consecutive life sentences for this killing of his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three in 2018.

Commonly known as the Watts family murders, the case gripped the world in 2018 when it was revealed that oil field operator Chris had killed his entire family and pretended that they had simply gone missing.

Chris would make several appearances on national television pleading for information about his missing family, before it was later revealed that he had ended their lives. He would later admit to their killings in order to avoid facing the death penalty for his actions.

The horrifying story would later go on to be the subject of a harrowing Netflix documentary titled American Murder: The Family Next Door, which revealed that Chris had somehow managed to attract a series of dedicated female penpals, many of whom believed him to be innocent.

True crime author Cheryln Cadle would later be inspired to write a book on the Watts’ story and contacted the 39-year-old.

The pair would go on to exchange a series of letters while Chris was incarcerated at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, in the US, in which he made a series of chilling admissions about the murders.

Chris revealed he had been ‘thinking about killing’ his wife Shannan for weeks – partly due to an affair he was having with a co-worker – and he also admitted to secretly giving her OxyContin in an attempt to end her pregnancy.

Cheryln later published a book, The Murders of Chris Watts, in 2020, where she included Chris’ letters detailing his failed initial attempt to kill his daughters.

He tried to smother his children before murdering his wife, describing how his spouse’s ‘eyes filled with blood’ and her face got ‘all black with streaks of mascara’.

Chris Watts on trial for the killings of Shanann, Bella and Celeste. (RJ Sangosti – Pool/Getty Images)

In a letter to Cheryln, he wrote: “August 13, morning of, I went to the girls’ room first, before Shanann and I had our argument. I went to Bella’s room, then Cece’s room and used a pillow from their bed [to kill them].

“That’s why the cause of death was smothering. After I left Cece’s room, then I climbed back in bed with Shanann and our argument ensued.”

Chris’ horrific attempt to kill his daughters had failed and the two girls, Bella, who was aged four, and Celeste, aged three, woke up.

He continued: “After Shannan had passed, Bella and Cece woke back up. I’m not sure how they woke back up, but they did. Bella’s eyes were bruised and both girls looked like they had been through trauma.”

He buried Shannan in a shallow grave close to an oil-storage facility and put his children’s bodies into crude oil tanks.

The Watts family. (Netflix)

After exchanging letters with Chris at length, Cheryln went to visit him behind bars, which she called ‘surreal’.

In 2021, Cheryln spoke to Inside Edition about the shocking details she learned about the case, explaining how his eyes would turn ‘black’ when she spoke about the killings.

“At times, when he would talk about the murders, his eyes would turn so black. He just would get a different look on his face, and he talked about it so nonchalantly, like going down to get a cup of coffee,” Cheryln said.

“He talked about it so nonchalantly, like going down to get a cup of coffee.”

A body language expert has analysed the ‘deceptive body language’ shown by Chris Watts in the interview filmed before he was arrested and charged for the murder of his wife and two daughters.

Watts is currently behind bars for five consecutive life sentences without possibility for parole for the 2018 murders of his wife, Shanann Watts, who was 15 weeks pregnant with their third child, and their daughters Bella Marie, four, and Celeste, three, in Colorado, US.

As revealed in letters to author Cheryln Cadle, he strangled Shanann to death in their home and left her in a grave near an oil-storage facility, and dumped his children’s bodies into crude oil tanks after they’d died from suffocation.

He pled guilty to nine charges including murder, tampering with deceased bodies and unlawful termination of a pregnancy (via the BBC).

A day after the three family members were reported missing, Watts gave an interview to Denver7’s Tomas Hoppough.

The chilling interview took place after the mum and her two kids went ‘missing’ (YouTube/Dr. G Explains)

“Shanann, Bella, Celeste, if you’re out there, just come back, like if somebody has her, just please bring her back, I need to see everybody, I need to see everybody, again, this house is not complete without anybody here. Please bring them back.” he pleaded in the interview.

Physiologist Dr G has since shared his analysis on the interview, revealing one ‘disgusting’ moment.

In a 2023 YouTube episode of Flashback Forensics, the expert pointed out how the criminal kept smiling throughout the video.

“What a disgusting smile, I mean, truly, he feels so relieved by people not being there, he really is starting to smile,” he said. “And also him hiding his lips. That could also be recognising that he was smiling.”

Dr G was stunned at how Watts kept smiling (YouTube/Dr. G Explains/Denver7)

“That’s what you have to do with body language, is there is some interpretation involved?

“So it’s either one, don’t smile again or two, he’s getting ready to ask hard questions, don’t say anything stupid, and now he’s outright laughing.”

Dr G said it was ‘remarkable how pleased he looks by this and so it’s almost like, as he talks about all of the obligations he has to family, and thinking about he won’t have those anymore, the more pleased and the more happy he gets’.

“Maybe he wanted peace and quiet, maybe he didn’t like having a family, there’s so many possibilities but, clearly, he looks relieved, he looks happy,” he said.

“Sometimes people smile when they are uncomfortable, not situations like this though.

“I’m talking about somebody might smile when they are having to give somebody bad news, or an awkward situation happens at work, or somebody says something that they don’t know how to react to.

“Not that their family is missing. So this is an inappropriate smile, no matter how you cut it, this is not normal in any situation like this.”

Watt’s crimes were documented in Netflix’s American Murder: The Family Next Door.