447: Part 2: The Shady Truth About Nichol Kessinger & The Watts Family Murders

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Hi, it's me, I miss your face.

SPEAKER_2 (0:05)

I was just calling to say hi.

Annie Elise (0:07)

Nichol Kessinger, the mistress.

SPEAKER_4 (0:10)

She wasn't charged.

SPEAKER_5 (0:12)

She wasn't even considered a suspect.

But millions still believe she knows more than she let on. Kessinger says Watts deceived her though, never wearing a wedding ring and lying, saying he was in the final stages of a divorce.

Nichol Kessinger (0:26)

This man has a gorgeous house.

SPEAKER_4 (0:28)

He has beautiful babies. He has a beautiful wife.

Nichol Kessinger (0:31)

He does an awesome job. Like, why would he want to lead this?

Annie Elise (0:39)

Hey, True Crime Besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously with me, your host, Annie Elise. Now, let me catch you up here, because if you're looking at the title of this, you probably see that this is a part two. This is part two of the special update episode to Chris Watts and Nichol Kessinger. Now, if you have not listened to part one yet, I highly encourage you, actually, homework. I demand you to go back, listen to part one right now. You definitely need all of that for context. Then hop back over here for part two, because today, in part two, we are doing a full exposé on Nichol Kessinger, Chris Watts' mistress and who a lot of people believe was involved, which we're going to get into in today's episode, in the infamous Chris Watts' family murders. Now, like I mentioned in part one, obviously, a lot of people are already familiar with this case. I mean, it's hard not to be. In 2008, if you said the name Casey Anthony, everybody knew who you were talking about and everybody knew what happened. And now, in 2026, if you say the name Chris Watts, nearly everybody knows who you're talking about and what happened. However, what isn't as well known are the details leading up to the murders, the inconsistencies after the murders, the weird behavior from Nichol the afternoon after the murders, and all of the conspiracies surrounding whether Chris acted alone or not. If you also already listened to part one, you know that we talked a little bit about Nichol in that episode, but part two is really going to be more heavily focused on her. Was she involved? Was she just the innocent mistress who got caught up in this horrible situation?

Was she playing some sort of role in the cover-up? Why was her phone pinging? In odd spots, it shouldn't have been pinging the day of the murders. What happened with her time card the afternoon of the murders?

There is so much that I have found along the way. I mentioned in the earlier episode, I've gone through hundreds of pages of phone records, court documents, highlighting things, going through her history, her internet search history, and there is a lot of information in there that we need to dissect and talk about. By the end of today's episode, I think you'll be able to answer the question for yourself of what did Nicole know and how closely was she involved? However, really quickly though, before we get into the episode, you know what I say, do your own research, form your own opinions. Everything in today's episode is either alleged from court documents or my opinion solely, so do your own research and form your own opinion. But that being said, let's get into the Nicole of it all. So Nicole had an interview with the police on August 16th, 2018 This was three days after the murder of Chris Watts' entire family, where he just annihilated everybody. This interview was over three and a half hours long. And the entire time, she is just rambling and then talking her way through it and convincing these FBI agents that there is absolutely nothing to see in regards to her. And she does it in a way that is just truly incomprehensible and frankly mind boggling. Now let's start with in this interview. Nicole says that after meeting Chris in June of 2018, she didn't know Shanann's name. She didn't know it right away, and that she didn't even know her name for a while, although he did mention having a significant other.

SPEAKER_7 (4:28)

Your relationship with Chris and what you know about Chris and his family, and events relating to Chris Watts.

Nichol Kessinger (4:36)

He mentioned that he did have a significant other, and then he told me that those two were in the process of the separation.

SPEAKER_7 (4:47)

Did he mention the children's name or his significant other's name?