What dad's mistress searched before he murdered wife and daughters
The mistress of a man who murdered his wife and two daughters Google searched wedding dresses just nine days before they died.
Nichol Kessinger was the co-worker and mistress of Christopher Watts, the US man who was sentenced on November 19 to three consecutive life sentences for killing his pregnant wife, Shanann, and the couple’s daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste.
Mr Watts had previously pleaded guilty to charges of murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy and tampering with a deceased human body.
People reports Ms Kessinger Google searched wedding dresses before Mr Watts killed his wife and daughters, according to documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s Office.
Investigators found that on July 24 she also searched phrases including, “man I’m having affair with says he will leave his wife”, People reported.
She Googled wedding dresses for over two hours on August 4, just nine days before the murder and searched topics relating to “marrying your mistress” on August 8.
It was also revealed that Ms Kessinger researched another high profile mistress of a murderer.
She searched for details about Amber Frey, the mistress of infamous murderer Scott Peterson, who killed his pregnant wife Laci in 2002.
People reported Ms Kessinger searched, “did people hate Amber Frey?”.
She allegedly searched for details of Ms Frey’s net worth and book deal on August 19, four days after Mr Watts was arrested over the disappearance of his wife and two daughters.
Prosecutors said Watts strangled his wife and smothered the girls inside the family’s suburban Denver home. He then buried his wife in a shallow grave on an oil and gas work site and dumped the girls’ bodies in oil tanks nearby. He is not eligible for parole.
Police investigating the family’s disappearance quickly became suspicious of Watts and learned of an ongoing affair with a co-worker. He was arrested on August 16, three days after a friend first reported Shanann Watts and the girls missing.
-With AP
