The bodies of a pregnant missing Colorado woman and her 2 young daughter have been recovered in a Denver suburb, just one day after authorities arrested the woman’s husband on suspicion of three counts of murder. Searchers on Thursday afternoon found what appear to be the bodies of 4-year-old Bella Watts and 3-year-old Celeste Watts. The remains of their mother, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, were found earlier on property in northern Colorado owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp, where the suspect, Chris Watts, had been employed. Shanann Watts (who was 15 weeks pregnant), and her daughters were reported missing on Monday afternoon. Her husband and the children’s father, Chris Watts, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday night in connection with their disappearance. Their case had made national headlines as her husband took to the airwaves earlier this week to plead for his family’s safe return. “This is the worst possible outcome that any of us can imagine,” Colorado Bureau of Inve
Take Two
Look both ways at this tricky puzzle by Jeff Chen and Celeste Watts, making her debut.
Young hitchhikers near Paris in 1971, waiting for someone to give them a lift to the south of France.Credit.Agence France-Presse Getty Images
March 6, 2021
SUNDAY PUZZLE Today we have an excellent cryptic trick (cryptrick?) for a theme that will make you think twice about your spoken words all day. It’s a first effort from Celeste Watts, a retired elementary schoolteacher and longtime solver who had 14 puzzles rejected by The Times’s puzzle editors before collaborating with the venerable veteran Jeff Chen, who helped bring her concept to fruition.
reveal the details just yet. david? alex, thank you. from one awful case to another, the husband and father of two coming face to face with the family of the wife he allegedly murdered. her father sobbing in court today. as we learned that christopher watts is claiming she killed the children, and he killed his wife out of rage because of it. here s clayton sandell. reporter: chris watts, shackled and subdued, in court hearing the charges against him for the first time. accused of murdering his pregnant wife shanann, who gushed about him on facebook. he was the one for me. and he is amazing. reporter: and the daughters who adored him. the my daddy is a hero. reporter: watts coming face to face with shanann s father and brother, comforting each other as a judge read a heartbreaking list of crimes. celeste watts.