Chris Watts has been placed on suicide watch, a source with Wisconsin Department of Corrections told RadarOnline this afternoon. While the exact reasoning for placing Chris Watts on suicide watch is unclear, Radar implies it is due to statements he made to the FBI, CBI, and Frederick CO police last month regarding other inmates encouraging him to harm himself.
This doesn’t quite make sense (and I have another theory why this occurred, which I’ll discuss below). For the past several days, we’ve been typing up the Chris Watts confession interview transcript in it’s entirety, and the issue with other inmates occurred at his former jail in Weld County, Colorado. He was only there for a few months before being moved to Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin (where the most recent FBI interview took place), and says he is much happier there and has no issues with other prisoners. Below is exactly what Chris stated in the interview about problems in prison, and life in his new facility:
What Chris Watts Said About Inmate Threats and Taunts
Tammy Lee (CBI): So did it have anything to do with you not having the death penalty? [*She is asking if his decision to plead guilty had to do with Colorado’s death penalty].
Chris: No like honestly, when I was sitting it that cell, I felt I should die. I was listening to everybody (*other prisoners) telling me like “Hey if you do this and this you can hang yourself from that cell. You can do this and that —“
Tammy: They were like telling you stuff you could do?
Chris: Yeah, that you could drown yourself in the toilet if you wanted to fill your toilet bowl up or something like that – they’ve been there a bunch of times …
