Chris Watts hears daughter’s tragic final words ‘every time he closes eyes’

Every time Chris Watts closes his eyes, he hears his daughter's tragic final words.

The family killer is serving five life sentences without parole for the murders of his 15-week pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters on 13 August 2018.

Following an argument, Watts said he murdered his pregnant wife by strangulation in their home in Frederick, Colorado, and later their daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, by suffocation.

He took the pair in his work truck to an oil site in rural Colorado and admitted to killing the children there before disposing the bodies in oil tanks.

Shanann’s body was buried in a shallow grave nearby.

According to Watts’ 2019 prison confession to investigators, after arriving at the site in his work truck, Bella saw what had happened to her younger sister, 'CeCe' and said: "Daddy, no!" and asked if 'the same thing gonna happen to me as CeCe?'.

Chris Watts is serving five life sentences without parole for the 2018 murders of his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters (Shanann Watts)

While Watts wasn't sure if he told Bella 'yes', he said he went on to suffocate the girl with a blanket as the child fought for her life.

He said he threw the older girl's body into a separate oil tank before burying his wife's body.

Watts told investigators that every time he closes his eyes, he hears Bella's last words.

Watts closes his eyes he hears his daughter's tragic final words (RJ Sangosti - Pool/Getty Images)

"Right now I'd have a 5-year-old ... a 3-year-old ... and more than likely, a one-month old son…and a beautiful wife…and right now it's just me," he told investigators.

Following Watts' guilty plea, a co-worker named Nichol Kessinger came forward and revealed that she had been having an affair with him in the months prior.

She claimed that Watts told her that he was going through an amicable divorce when they were together.

Watts keeps pictures of his family in his cell (Shanann Watts)

Watts was convicted in Colorado and was sent to a prison in Wisconsin in December 2018.

He is currently incarcerated at the maximum-security Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, according to People.

The Daily Mail reports that Watts is housed in cell 14 of a special unit for high profile and dangerous case.

People also reported in 2019 that the inmate kept photos of Shanann, and their two murdered children, in his cell.

Despite a petition to remove the pictures, the Department of Corrections said it 'has no legal basis for removing the photographs from Christopher Watts'.

"Incarcerated inmates are permitted to possess certain identified items of property, including photographs," a statement read.

"Some photographs are not allowed, such as those depicting gang signs, colours, or insignias or photographs that include nudity."