DENVER -- Christopher Watts, who is charged with killing his family and dumping their bodies at an oil worksite, taped a video presentation six years ago about saving or abandoning relationships. A YouTube video posted in April 2012 shows Watts giving a PowerPoint presentation that he titled, "Communication Speech, Relationship Deterioration and Repair." 
 
 He opened the presentation by saying it is for a course he was taking. He then speaks of infidelity — possibly with someone at work — as a reason that relationships fail. 
 
 Police in suburban Denver say Watts was having an affair with a co-worker before he was arrested last week in the slayings of his wife, Shanann Watts, and their two young daughters, Bella, 3, and Celeste, 4. He has not entered a plea to murder and other felony charges. 
 
 According to court documents, Watts told police in Frederick, a Colorado community in the oil and gas fields north of Denver, that he told his wife on August 13 that he wanted to separate. A police investigation determined that Watts "was actively involved in an affair with a co-worker," the documents state. 
 
 Watts worked at Anadarko Petroleum and was fired on August 15, the day he was arrested. He told investigators that he killed his wife but claimed that she had strangled their two daughters after he told her he wanted to separate. 
 
 In the 2012 video posted online about six months before the couple wed, Watts said he was in suburban Broomfield, where the Watts family once lived. 
 
 "Sometimes you find your partner no longer attractive physically or in their personality," he said in the presentation. "When you are in a relationship you have to show desire, lust toward your partner. Sometimes when you get married that the lust and the desire kind of fall by the wayside a little bit." 
 
 At another point, Watts said: "Even at the job, you might meet a new person and (it) could strengthen into something else and could weaken the bond you have with the partner you have." 
 
 "And you feel that you might be better with someone else that you've met," he declared. "You think that you can no longer do — that your partner is someone that you can't be with." 
 
 Krista Henery, a spokeswoman for the Weld County district attorney's office, declined comment about the video Wednesday. Watts' public defender, James Merson, did not immediately return a phone message. 
 
 Watts in the video cites various experts in recommending steps to strengthen and salvage relationships, including listening attentively, thinking before speaking, and openly expressing support and affection. 
 
 "Sometimes when you have children and your relationship starts to deteriorate a child could help repair it," he said. 
 
 He also listed three questions to ask when a relationship is in jeopardy: 
 
 "Do I have the desire to keep this relationship going? Do I have a moral obligation to stay in this relationship? Or is it a necessity for me to stay in this relationship?" 
 
 As Watts ended the presentation, he received a round of applause from two women and two men seated on a sofa across the room. One of the women said, "Good job." 
 
 Shanann Watts is not seen in the video. Under a last name she had from an earlier marriage, Shanann King posted a comment to the video that said: "Great job Christopher! Good information!" 
 
 North Carolina court records show she divorced around 2009, several years before she and Christopher Watts married. 
 
 Watts was charged this week with first-degree murder and other felony counts. Shanann's body was discovered in a shallow grave about 40 miles from the family's Frederick home, and the two girls' bodies were recovered from nearby oil tanks, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. 
 
 On Tuesday, Christopher Watts appeared in court for an arraignment. Shanann Watts' father, Frank Rzucek Sr., cried and shook visibly as District Judge Marcelo Kopcow read the formal charges. 
 
 Shanann's brother, Frank Rzucek Jr., rubbed his father's shoulders and glared unflinchingly at his brother-in-law. A bailiff stood between them. 
 
 Watts, handcuffed and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, didn't show emotion. He said "Yes, sir," when the judge asked if he understood the murder and other felony charges against him and the penalties they carry, including the death penalty. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek death. 
 
 Watts waived his right to have a preliminary hearing within 35 days. A judge set a status hearing for November 19. ||||| A Colorado man told police he killed his pregnant wife in a “rage” after she strangled their two daughters, according to an affidavit released by police on Monday after prosecutors formally charged Christopher Lee Watts with the murder of his entire family. 
 
 The bodies of Watts’s wife and children were found last week on the property of the oil and gas company he worked for near Denver. 
 
 According to the new documents released by Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke, Watts, 33, told detectives that he and his wife, Shanann, 34, discussed ending their marriage on Aug. 13. Watts, who was having an affair with a co-worker, claimed that by the end of the conversation, both were “upset and crying.” He told investigators that he went downstairs, then returned to speak with Shanann. He looked at the baby monitor in their bedroom and what he saw threw him “into a rage”: His older daughter, Bella, 4, was “sprawled out on her bed,” and Shannon Watts was strangling their younger daughter Celeste, 3, he said. 
 
 After a multiday investigation, Christopher Watts confessed to killing his wife, loading the bodies into his truck and driving to an oil work site, where he left them. 
 
 Watts has been held without bail since his arrest Wednesday. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning, when he will be informed of the charges against him. 
 
 He faces five counts of first-degree murder, one count of unlawful termination of pregnancy and two counts of tampering with a deceased human body. 
 
 The first three charges of murder in the first degree accuse Watts of killing his wife, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and his daughters “after deliberation.” Under Colorado law, “after deliberation” means Watts not only intended to kill his family, but opted to commit the homicides after he took time to reflect on his decision to do so. “An act committed after deliberation is never one which has been committed in a hasty or impulsive manner,” according to the state statute. 
 
 The district attorney’s office also filed two additional counts of first-degree murder for Bella and Celeste. To convict Watts on these counts, prosecutors must prove the children were younger than 12 at the time and Watts was “in a position of trust.” As their father, Watts fits Colorado’s definition of the latter. 
 
 A motion that Watts’s attorneys filed Friday suggested the two children may have been strangled and stated their bodies had been submerged in crude oil for four days. The attorneys had asked to obtain DNA samples from the children’s necks, as well as from their mother’s hands and nails, saying DNA would still be present on the bodies. A Weld County judge, however, denied the request. 
 
 Authorities have not said how the victims died. James Mason, a deputy state public defender in rural Weld County, did not respond to a request for comment. 
 
 Although the couple led what appeared to be an idyllic life, in 2015, two years after buying their big two-story house, the Wattses filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post previously reported. They were under pressure from a $400,000 mortgage and more than $50,000 in credit card debt, bankruptcy court documents show. ||||| (CNN) In the weeks before Chris Watts killed his pregnant wife and two daughters in Colorado, she saw him becoming suddenly cold and distant, and she canceled a party where she was to reveal her unborn child's gender, newly released documents reveal. 
 
 Authorities say Watts, 33, killed his wife Shanann, 34, and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, on August 13 before disposing of them at a secluded site where he worked. 
 
 He pleaded guilty this month to first-degree murder and other charges, and was sentenced Monday to five life sentences with no possibility of parole. 
 
 Shanann Watts was realizing her marriage was in trouble around the time she and her daughters took a weekslong trip this summer to see family in North Carolina, the last week of which Chris Watts joined them, investigative documents released this week by the Weld County district attorney's office show. 
 
 While they were apart from June 27 to July 30, Watts, apparently unbeknownst to his wife at the time, went on dates with a mistress in Colorado, investigators say in the documents. 
 
 Arguments between Watts and his wife intensified when he reunited with the family in North Carolina in late July and early August. By the time they returned to Colorado, Shanann Watts, roughly 15 weeks pregnant, revealed to friends that her husband told her he didn't want the baby, friends told police. 
 
 "I don't know how you fell out of love with me in 5.5 weeks, or if this has been going on for a long time, but you don't plan another baby if you're not in love," Shanann wrote to her husband on August 8, according to a police review of her phone data included in the investigative documents. 
 
 'Chris said we are not compatible anymore' 
 
 A friend reported Shanann Watts missing on August 13, saying she wasn't responding to messages, not long after Shanann returned from a short work trip from Arizona. Police found no one home. 
 
 Chris Watts, after returning from work, told police that he had informed his wife early that morning that he wanted a separation. They had not argued, but they were both upset and crying, he told police, according to an affidavit. He told police that she'd indicated she was leaving for an unnamed friend's house. 
 
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 A day later, Chris Watts, in an interview with CNN affiliate KMGH at his home in Frederick, north of Denver, pleaded for his family's return. 
 
 But later that week, Shanann Watts' body was found in a shallow grave, and the bodies of Bella and Celeste were found in commercial oil tanks at a company where Watts had worked. Chris Watts had strangled his wife and suffocated the children, authorities said, and he was arrested. 
 
 While they investigated, police spoke to several of Shanann Watts' friends, who told them Chris Watts had just recently become distant with her. 
 
 "While in North Carolina, Shanann called (a friend) and said he (Chris Watts) wouldn't touch or kiss her anymore," a Frederick police officer wrote in one of the documents. "Shanann told her that Chris didn't want the baby she was pregnant with and that he was scared. He was happy with having only the two girls." 
 
 That friend told the officer that after Shanann and the children spent five weeks without Watts in North Carolina over the summer, "Chris came back to Shanann a different man." 
 
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 A different friend told police that she'd been helping to plan an August 19 party at which the baby's gender would be revealed. But the friend learned on August 8 -- a day after the family returned form North Carolina -- that Shanann was canceling the party. 
 
 The friend asked, by text, if everything was OK. Frederick police documented the exchange: 
 
 Shanann: "No can I call you tomorrow and tell you." 
 
 Shanann: "Chris said we are not compatible anymore" 
 
 Friend: " ... Oh my god what?" 
 
 Shanann: "He said we are not compatible anymore! He refused to hug me. Said he thought another baby would fix his feelings. Said, he refused couples counseling! " 
 
 ... 
 
 Friend: "What the hell changed in 6 weeks?" 
 
 Shanann: "He said he had a lot of time to think." 
 
 'Why didn't you just tell me you were done?l?' 
 
 The newly released documents includes a police investigator's analysis of data from Chris Watts' and Shanann Watts' phones. The messages show increasing strain as Shanann's summer trip in North Carolina progressed. Some excerpts from the documents: 
 
 July 10: 
 
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 Shanann writes to Chris: "You OK? It's like you don't want to talk l kept trying to talk and I had to dig it out of you?" 
 
 Chris replied, "l'm fine baby. The last few days at work have put a lot of responsibility on me with new people. I didn't mean to seem short Boo. I love you to the moon and back." 
 
 Shanann answers, "l miss you and l feel like you just want to work out and run." 
 
 Watts claimed running helps "clear my head." 
 
 Shanann responds: "l wish my husband wanted to talk to me." 
 
 July 24 
 
 Shanann remarks that Chris has been slow to respond to her. 
 
 "Thought something happened. But you don't care about others feelings... Or think you're with another girl, or worse. No consideration of others." 
 
 Later, Shanann writes: 
 
 "l realized (during) this trip what's missing in our relationship! lt's only one way emotions and feelings. I can't come back like this. I need you to meet me halfway. You don't consider others at all, nor think about others feelings." 
 
 Watts replied that he was sorry and he loves her, the investigator writes. 
 
 Shanann responded: "l try to give you space, but while you are working and living the bachelor life l'm carrying our 3rd and fighting with our two kids daily and trying to work and make money. lt's not hard texting love you and miss you. lf you don't mean it then I get it, but we need to talk. I kept looking at my phone all night and no response from you. Like seriously! We didn't just start dating yesterday! We've been together 8 years and have 2.5 kids together." 
 
 July 29 
 
 After a 14-minute phone conversation, Shanann writes: "lt would have been nice for my husband to show interest in how the girls and I are, and the baby. l'm done with begging for you to talk." 
 
 August 5 
 
 By now, Chris had reunited with his wife and kids in North Carolina. 
 
 Shanann messages Chris: "l don't know how you fell out of love with me in 5.5 weeks, or if this has been going on for a long time, but you don't plan another baby if you're not in love. Kids don't deserve a broken family ... You show up and I have to practically ask for a kiss in airport." 
 
 Later, she adds: "Being away from you, it's not the help I missed because I handle that. lt was exhausting, but with school that's not hard. I missed the smell of you, you touching me when l'm cooking, you touching me in bed, you touching me period ! I missed holding you and snuggling with you. ... lf you are done, don't love me, don't want to work this out, not happy anymore and only staying because of kids, I NEED you to tell me." 
 
 August 6 
 
 Shanann writes to Chris: "Your only response last night was 'l don't want to lose the kids!' 'You used me to just have a 'boy!' Only reason you wanted another kid?! I can't handle this and you are ok with it. Why didn't you just tell me you were done?l? Why get me pregnant?!?" 
 
 Chris responds: "l'm not just staying because of the kids. They are my light and that will not change. I didn't fall out of love in 5 weeks, that's impossible. I don't want to erase 8 years just like that. l'm not sure what's in my head." 
 
 Later, Shanann writes that at one point, she was trying to get him to hug her, and to "make me feel safe." Chris responds that "this will all get fixed." 
 
 "No I don't need words damnit," Shanann responds. "You just told me you don't want this baby." 
 
 August 7 
 
 In a text with a friend, Shanann writes: "Chris told me last night he's scared to death about this third baby and he's happy with just Bella and Celeste and doesn't want another baby." 
 
 After the friend writes that Chris is just scared and everything will be fine when the baby is born, Shanann writes: "He has changed. I don't know who he is. ... He hasn't touched me all week, kissed me, talked to me except for when l'm trying to figure out what is wrong ... He's been distant since I left." 
 
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 Other woman tells her side of story 
 
 According to an unsealed Weld County arrest affidavit , investigators say they discovered Watts was "actively involved" in an affair. According to the documents released this week, Nichol Kessinger told the FBI that she had developed an intimate relationship with Watts. 
 
 In a report analyzing the phone records of Kessinger and Chris Watts, police said the two had dates while his wife was in North Carolina, including to the Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve in southern Colorado, and a museum in Boulder. 
 
 Kessinger, 30, told The Denver Post she met him while working for the environmental department of a petroleum contractor. 
 
 "We had just met," Kessinger told the newspaper. "I barely knew him." 
 
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 He wasn't wearing a wedding ring when they were introduced, and she thought he was attractive, soft-spoken and a good listener, she said. When they first met outside of work in late June, he told her he was in the final stages of a divorce. She never met any of his relatives or friends, Kessinger told The Post. 
 
 Watts sent her a text August 13 to say his family had disappeared, and she was confused about why the media was at his house. 
 
 "When I read the news, I found out he was still married and his wife was 15 weeks pregnant," Kessinger told the newspaper. 
 
 She peppered him with questions via phone calls and text, she said, and he changed his story about the divorce, showed little emotion about his family's disappearance, and tried to change the subject. 
 
 "It got to a point that he was telling me so many lies that I eventually told him that I did not want to speak to him again until his family was found," she told the paper, explaining that she called police on August 15 to report Watts' lies.
– A Colorado man charged with killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters in the midst of an affair with a co-worker once gave a presentation on relationships and infidelity, specifically mentioning the idea of infidelity with a person at work. "Sometimes you find your partner no longer attractive physically or in their personality," Christopher Watts says in a 9-minute YouTube video posted in April 2012, six months before his marriage to Shanann Watts. "Even at the job, you might meet a new person and [the new relationship] could strengthen into something else," he continues, delivering a presentation titled "Communication Speech, Relationship Deterioration and Repair," which he says is for a course he was taking. At one point, Watts notes children "could help repair" a deteriorating relationship, as could listening and showing affection. "Great job Christopher! Good information!" Watts' future wife commented on the video, viewed more than 100,000 times, per CBS News. Along with recent vacation photos, other videos of the couple are racking up online views. "He's the best thing that has ever happened to me," Shanann says of her husband in one, per the Coloradan. Another viewed nearly 12 million times shows Shanann surprising Watts with news of her third pregnancy. "That's awesome," Watts says before kissing his wife. Authorities allege he killed her and daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, weeks later. Watts has a different version of events, claiming he killed his wife only after she strangled their daughters following a conversation about a possible separation, according to police. He's next due in court in November.