CHRIS WATTS: THINKING ABOUT AN OIL TANK MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP; THIS WASN’T ‘CRIMINAL MINDS’ TYPE

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WHAT WERE YOU THINKING ABOUT WHEN YOU CALLED THE SCHOOL THAT DAY? ON MONDAY?

I WAS FREAKING OUT. I WAS THINKING IN MY HEAD ABOUT WHAT I’D JUST DID - WHAT I’D JUST DONE.

AND I DIDN’T KNOW LIKE - IT WAS STUPID TO DO ANYTHING - I MEAN, TO CALL THE SCHOOL, TO CALL ANN, TO CALL ANYBODY - I MEAN.

THEY WERE RIGHT TO BE SUSPICIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING BUT I PROBABLY SOUNDED ECCENTRIC ON THE PHONE AND OUT OF SORTS.

I CAN ONLY - I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE THINKING WHEN THEY HEARD ME.

I THINK THEY THOUGHT IT WAS WEIRD, BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD NOT SOUND WEIRD. LIKE YOU SAID, SO…

SO WERE YOU 100% SURE THAT THE GIRLS WERE STILL AROUND AND ALIVE WHEN YOU DROVE OUT? OKAY.

SO THAT’S COMPLETELY ACCURATE? THERE’S NOTHING ELSE ABOUT THAT?

THEY GOT IN THE TRUCK.

WHERE DID THE BLANKET GO?

EITHER - PROBABLY IN THE TRASH CAN OR SOMETHING, I THINK.

IN THE TRASH?

LIKE, IT WAS STILL IN MY TRUCK. OKAY.

WE THOUGHT WE SAW SOME GPS WHERE YOU HAD STOPPED BY A CONSTRUCTION - A ROLL-OFF DUMPSTER - IS THAT TRUE?

YEAH I THINK THAT’S LIKE, YEAH, I HAD DUMPED MY CLOTHES IN THERE. SO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE WAY BACK TO THE HOUSE?

YEAH. IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

YEAH. WHEN OFFICER COONROD WAS THERE? OKAY.

WAS IT ONE OF THOSE RED CONSTRUCTION DUMPSTERS? MORE THAN LIKELY.

DID YOU PACK NEW CLOTHES? HOW DID THAT WORK?

I ALREADY HAD SOME IN THERE BECAUSE LIKE IN CASE WE HAVE LIKE A SPILL OR SOMETHING.

DID YOU EVER GET CRUDE OIL ON YOU? YOU DON’T -

YEAH I HAD LIKE TWO PAIRS OF BOOTS - I HAD ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF STUFF IN THERE JUST IN CASE.

BECAUSE LIKE THIS ONE TIME I HAD TO CLEAN UP A SPILL AND I HAD THE DEFROST ON AND I HAD LIKE A HEADACHE FOR LIKE TWO WEEKS ‘CAUSE IT’S LIKE THE CRUDE OIL THAT COMES WITH THAT SO I ALWAYS HAVE SOME IN THERE.

SO WHERE DID YOU KEEP THEM AFTER YOU TOOK THEM OFF? DID YOU JUST CHANGE OUT THERE INTO YOUR NEW, OTHER, CLOTHES?

LIKE I SAID I DUMPED MY CLOTHES INTO THAT DUMPSTER.

WASN’T THAT ON THE WAY BACK? WHEN YOU WERE COMING? LIKE YOU HAD ALREADY WORKED THE WHOLE DAY, RIGHT?

YEAH. NO. I WORKED TILL LIKE 11 OR SO. YEAH.

SO THAT WAS BACK WHEN - PROBABLY WHEN - NICKOLE ATKINSON. YEAH WHEN SHE CALLED - YEAH WHEN SHE WAS AT MY HOUSE

SITTING AT THE DOORBELL, THAT’S WHEN I KNEW SOMEBODY WAS AT MY HOUSE.

DID YOU THINK RIGHT THEN, LIKE - OH FUCK, HERE WE GO - OR WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?

I DIDN’T KNOW WHY SHE WAS THERE. I DIDN’T KNOW LIKE MAYBE - MAYBE SHE HAD AN APPOINTMENT OR SOMETHING WITH SHANANN. I DIDN’T KNOW.

WHAT DID YOU THINK LIKE THAT DAY, LIKE WHAT YOU WERE GONNA SAY? WHAT WAS YOUR PLAN?

WERE YOU JUST GONNA GO HOME AND BE LIKE, REPORT TO THE POLICE THAT YOUR FAMILY’S GONE, OR?

I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN - AFTER EVERYTHING.

LIKE I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW I WAS ACTING EVEN TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WAS AROUND.

BECAUSE LIKE WHEN TROY AND CODY AND CHAD AND MELISSA AND ALL THEM WHEN THEY SHOWED UP ON THE SITE I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW I WAS BEING SOMEWHAT COHERENT OF WHAT I WAS SAYING BUT APPARENTLY THEY UNDERSTOOD ME.

I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. LIKE I SAID THIS WASN’T SOMETHING OF ‘CRIMINAL MINDS’ TYPE - WELL THOUGHT OUT - YEAH IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THAT.

YOU’RE JUST MINUTE-BY-MINUTE AT THAT POINT.

I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN.

SO ONCE THE GIRLS WERE GONE, WAS IT ALSO JUST A MINUTE-BY-MINUTE THING AS FAR AS THE OIL TANKS? YEAH I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO - JUST THINKING ABOUT AN OIL TANK JUST MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP.

AND WAS THAT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS IN FRONT OF YOU AND JUST PRESENTED ITSELF? IT WASN’T PLANNED BEFOREHAND? OKAY.

WAS THERE ANY REASON WHY THERE’S SEPARATE ONES?

NO - JUST LIKE YOU SAID - GOING UP THE STAIRS AND JUST DIDN’T. WHAT FRANK SAID I WAS TRYING TO SEPARATE EVERYBODY THAT’S NOT WHAT - I DIDN’T WANT TO SEPARATE ANYBODY.

WHAT WAS THE REASON?

I COULDN’T EVEN TELL YOU - IT’S LIKE SOMETHING ELSE WAS IN CONTROL OF WHAT I WAS DOING. AND I WAS DOING SOMETHING I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD DO IN MY LIFE.

DID YOU THINK THERE WOULD BE LESS CHANCE OF SOMEONE FINDING THEM IF THEY WERE IN SEPARATE TANKS OR?

WHATEVER MY REASONING WAS IN MY HEAD THAT DAY, IT WASN’T SOUND. NOTHING WAS RIGHT.

AND YOU DON’T EVEN REMEMBER THINKING ABOUT IT? NO, IT WAS JUST LIKE A REACTION OF SOMETHING THAT I WASN’T EVEN THINKING ABOUT.

DID YOU TALK ABOUT THE TRASH BAGS? DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?

OH WITH THE? THERE WERE TWO…OH OKAY.

YEAH I WAS TRYING TO - LIKE BECAUSE SHE KEPT - WHEN I WAS PUTTING LIKE THE ONE IN BETWEEN THE THING I HAD I DIDN’T WANT THE GIRLS LOOKING AT SHANANN WHILE THEY WERE IN THE BACK SEAT.

SO WHAT’D YOU DO?

I PUT A TRASH BAG ON ONE END ON HER FEET AND ON HER HEAD SO THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO SEE.

OKAY. AND THEY WERE JUST TOO LITTLE TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT, RIGHT?

YEAH THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. THAT’S GOOD.

I JUST KNOW LIKE WHEN I WAS DRIVING UP THERE I MEAN - YOU KNOW THEY WERE JUST SITTING THERE KIND OF ASLEEP OR KIND OF HOLDING ON TO EACH OTHER. LAYING IN EACH OTHER’S LAPS.

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