Husband held after missing family found dead in fuel tank
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45225183
The bodies of missing Colorado mother Shanann Watts and her two daughters have been located inside a fuel tank days after she vanished, reports say.
Her husband Chris Watts has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his entire family. His arrest came one day after he appealed for their return. Local media said the tanks were
nearly full when Mr Watts allegedly hid their bodies there to conceal the odour. The couple had financial troubles, and she suspected her husband was cheating.
In the aftermath of her death, a stunned mountain community is left wondering what could have led to the murder. Mrs Watts, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and the couple's
children Bella, four, and Celeste, three, went missing on Monday.
The bodies were found inside oil and gas tanks on the premises of a petroleum company where Mr Watts worked, unnamed sources told local media He was fired from the company -
Anadarko Petroleum - on Wednesday after his arrest.
Police suspect all three were killed inside their home, but they have not yet released a cause of death. Mr Watts is being held on suspicion of three counts of murder and tampering
with evidence, report local media.
Police have until Monday to press charges. He was arrested less than 24 hours after appealing for his family's return. "I'm just hoping right now that she's somewhere safe," he told r
eporters. "I just want them home so bad."
Mr Watts told reporters his wife had returned from a business trip to Arizona in the early hours of Monday. He said they had stayed up having an "emotional conversation" about an
unspecified subject until his departure for work at 05:15 local time.
On social media, Mrs Watts had praised her spouse as an "amazing father" and "the BEST husband EVER!" In a video that she posted on Facebook on 11 June, she filmed her
husband's reaction as she revealed she was pregnant with the couple's third child.
"That's awesome. I guess when you want to, it happens," he said, wearing sunglasses and smiling as he held up the pregnancy test kit. On Instagram, Mrs Watts extolled him as "my
amazing supportive hubby!"
Mrs Watts' friend, Amanda Thayer, told CBS News: "It came to her [Mrs Watts'] mind that possibly he [her husband] could be cheating."She said that Mr Watts had stayed the night in
the Thayer family home, sleeping across the hall from her five-year-old son, as police searched for his missing family. "That'll haunt me," her husband, Nicholas Thayer, said.
Frankie Rzucek, Mrs Watts' brother, wrote on Facebook late on Wednesday night: "I just want to know why." "My blood is boiling and the pain and anger and sadness I have in my heart,"
he added.
God it's so fucking sad.
yiiikeees jaysus christ
His behavior on TV to those reporters completely gave it away.
The wonderful thing about social media is that it is most often s very inaccurate representation of the people portrayed. Nobody wants to advertise the daemons in the lives, and the worse they are, the more important the facade becomes.
Which I why I stay clear of people that hold extreme value to their online personas as I fear their troubles and outburst are more extreme than that of people in the real world.
Besides I'm not walking a 10 minute walk in half an hour because someone needs to vlog or take selfies the whole fucking time
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