08/27/2025
Chris Watts is preaching redemption from his cell, bragging in twisted letters that God has made him âa new manâ, even as he pays the price for the brutal murders of his pregnant wife and daughters.
Seven years after being sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of his pregnant wife and two young daughters, Chris Watts now claims he has found peace and forgiveness through faith.
The 40-year-old Colorado killer, who is serving three consecutive life terms, has been writing lengthy handwritten letters to a female pen pal from his federal prison cell. According to the Daily Mail, the letters are filled with religious references and Bible verses in which Watts portrays himself as a changed man.
Watts has repeatedly told his pen pal that he has been transformed by his Christian faith. âI am a new man. I am not the person who committed those horrible acts,â he wrote in one letter.
Quoting 2 Corinthians 5:17, he added: âIf any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Thatâs me. Iâm a new creature.â
He continued: âI know that God does not see me as a sinner who killed his family; he sees me as His child. I have confessed my sins. I am forgiven. The hardest thing I have had to do was to forgive myself. God has separated me from my sin as far as the east is from the west. But forgiveness of self is another matter entirely and it has taken me years to find my peace, the peace that passes all understanding. I am finally at peace with myself.â
In his most recent letter, reportedly penned in April, Watts also revisited his affair with Nichol Kessinger, the woman he was seeing at the time of the murders. He placed blame on her for âmisleadingâ him, writing: âI have always taken full responsibility for what I did, even though I was misled by a wicked woman. She was a harlot, a Jezebel who led me astray, who spoke sweet words of destruction. But I will let God have his justice with her. I was weak and I let her cloud my morals and my judgment.â
The killer also reportedly went on to say that he has forgiven himself for the horrific crimes he committed in 2018.
"God has separated me from my sin as far as the east is from the west," Watts said.
âBut forgiveness of self is another matter entirely and it has taken me years to find my peace, the peace that passes all understanding.I am finally at peace with myself."