Chris Watts' pen pal has claimed from her home in the United States that the convicted killer told her he murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters in Colorado in August 2018 because of what she describes as a 'very sexual, very twisted' obsession with hisformer mistress.
The pen pal, 72‑year‑old true crime author Cheryln Cadle, says Watts repeatedly framed the family annihilation as the price he was willing to pay to be with lover Nichol Kessinger.
In new comments reported by a US outlet on 8 March, Cadle said Chris Watts confided that he 'couldn't get enough' of Kessinger at the time of the murders. She told the outlet she would not repeat many of the details he shared, but characterised the relationship as sexually extreme and deeply unhealthy.
'A lot of it is stuff I just won't repeat,' she said. 'But his relationship with her was very sexual, very twisted, very mixed up. And that's part of why I believe he did what he did.'
According to Cadle's account, Watts was enthralled by the nude photographs Kessinger allegedly sent him and by what were described only as 'dark' sexual acts that he said his wife would not engage in.
Cadle, who portrays herself as a kind of surrogate parent figure to him, suggested he might have had 'some sort of fetish' that drove him to share explicit details with her that, in her words, 'you wouldn't tell your mother'.
She has previously turned her correspondence with Watts into a best‑selling book in 2019 about his confessions, positioning herself as a rare confidante with access to his unvarnished thoughts.
In one Watts' letters to Cadle, he directly tied his decision to kill to his relationship with Kessinger, whom he referred to as 'Nikki'.
'If I had not met Nikki, I would never have killed my family. All I could feel was now I was free to be with Nikki. Feelings of my love for her was overcoming me. I felt no remorse,' he wrote.
'The darkness inside of me had won,' Watts wrote. 'It was still in me, though, I thought maybe permanently. I felt evil, swallowed up by this thing inside of me. I felt like I could kill anything and be justified for doing it.'
Source: International Business Times UK
