Chris And Shanann Watts Home To Be Auctioned In April: Courts

FREDERICK, CO – The five-bedroom home of convicted Frederick killer-husband Chris Watts, 33, will be sold in April for failure to pay mortgage payments and interest.

As first reported in the Longmont Times-Call, the home at 2825 Saratoga Trail will be sold at auction to the highest bidder on April 17, according to a notice posted Dec. 17, 2018 by the Weld County Public Trustee.

Prosecutors said the home was the site in August where Watts strangled his pregnant wife Shanann and smothered his two daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, before loading all three bodies into his work truck and dumping them on a Weld County oil property, Shanann in a shallow grave and the two girls in oil tanks.

Watts owes $349,938.09 on home. Chris and Shanann Watts bought the house in 2013 for $392,709.

According to the Weld County Assessor’s Office, the property was valued at $484,339 in a 2018 real property notice, the Times-Call reported. Realtor.com lists the home's value at $571,700, but the website says the home is "of the market."

The parents of Shanann Watts filed a wrongful death lawsuit to prevent Watts from profiting on the sale of the house or earning money in the future by selling his memoirs or movie rights, lawyers for Sandra and Frank Rzucek said.

Both Christopher and Shanann Watts spoke of selling the house earlier in the summer, saying they could no-longer afford it, according to court documents released after Watts was sentenced to multiple life sentences.

Public records showed the family had financial difficulties, including a bankruptcy in 2015, when the couple reported they were $448,000 in debt. They were also sued by their homeowner association, Wyndham Hill Master Association Inc., in July, 2018.

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Image: Christopher Watts, booking photo via Weld County Sheriff

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