“This is to celebrate, mourn, and get closure for a family that didn’t deserve this,” said vigil organizer Kelley Trippy. “This is a horrible, horrible, horrible story. Outside the family’s home in Frederick, north of Denver, a memorial of stuffed animals, balloons, flowers, and messages grew and a candlelight vigil drew dozens of people Friday night.
(Timothy Hurst/The Coloradoan via AP) Candlelight Vigil Authorities are expected to file formal charges Monday against Christopher Watts, an oil and gas worker who authorities said dumped his wife and daughters’ bodies on his employer’s property. Mourners gather in front of a memorial for a candlelight vigil for Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, in front of the Watts’s home on Friday, Aug. 21, during which time the charges will be read. 20, including the suspected motive, and he is scheduled to appear next in court at 10 a.m. “I would be shocked if the defense tried to use him in front of a jury after he has been discredited as an expert witness,” former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey told KMGH.Īutopsies on the bodies of Shannan, Bella, and Celeste Watts were completed on Friday but the cause of death for each has not been made public as yet.įormal charges against Chris Watts are expected to be filed on Aug. That decision by a Denver District Court judge came after Eikelenboom admitted he had no direct experience in DNA extraction of analysis and that his lab was unaccredited. Richard Eikelenboom, the expert for the defense, was actually not allowed to testify as an expert witness in a 2016 sexual assault trial, reported the Denver Post. 15, 2018, for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two young children. Chris Watts in a booking photo after being arrested on Aug. The bodies were submerged for around four days before being discovered near the body of Shanann Watts on the property of Anadarko Petroleum, who employed both Chris and Shannan Watts before the murders.
The request was denied by a Weld County judge, reported KMGH.Ī forensic expert presented by the defense said the presence of oil wouldn’t destroy DNA, referring to how the bodies of the girls were found submerged in oil inside of canisters. The request led some to believe that Watts may have strangled the girls. The defense on Friday made the unusual request, originating with Chris Watts, that DNA samples be taken from the girls’ throats, their hands, the mother’s hands, and her nails. The bodies of Shanann Watts, 34, Bella Watts, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3, were found on Thursday, Aug. A request by the defense attorneys for Chris Watts, the Colorado father accused of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters, was denied by a judge.
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