The Neighbor will now employ the “He ain’t acting right” technique. He proceeds to tell the detective that he ain’t acting right. This lets the detective know that Chris ain’t acting right.
This just goes to show you man, care about your friends and neighbors, they'll show the police right in front of your murderer the most incriminating evidence in your entire murder trial.
RU-vid, where we don’t want to bash the face of an actual MURDERER for killing someone, but instead we criticize his choice of words for blankets (in all honesty though how he says blankets really ticks me off)
When he said “this is something I’d never do, I could never do something like this to my family” As the interrogator I would have asked “do what, exactly? As far as we know they’re just missing” He outed himself immediately with that statement since up to that point this was just a missing persons case…
Annabelle Wilson and texted her 3 times don’t forget!! When my wife goes out I usually check on her every now and then to make sure she’s safe, but if it’s been hours upon hours and I heard nothing, I’m calling and texting as much as I can. This worlds scary so I get worried easily. I don’t understand how if you’re wife and kids are missing you only call them “3 times” lol
Right! I’ve called my husband that many times when he already left for Costco and I forgot to add something to the shopping list - well I usually text first but if I don’t get confirmation I call 😂
@@MS-hr6tn if the guy was innocent he'd not only allowed the officer to kick the door in but would also be in a state of both shock and flight/fight response. its incredibly hard to lose someone suddenly and for seemingly no reason and you'd be calling everyone you know..
Regardless of anyone being in there with him hopefully his soul was burned being back inside that now silent house, that he caused. Then again, to do what he did I’d say he was devoid of a soul.
Yeah I wouldn't appreciate that at all Chris told that woman to leave his property and he had every right to do so.People are ignorant thinking that she cracked the case.
My daughter snuck off to her friend's house one time and didn't tell me she was leaving. I speculate she been gone for about 30 minutes before I realize that she wasn't in her room. Not only did I call her about 27 times but I was on the phone with the dispatch when I finally found her at her friend's house. It's mind-numbing to think that a worried father and husband only called 3 times?
My daughter accidentally left her phone in her purse on our step once and when I called her a few times and she didn’t answer, I went outside and found the purse. I immediately ran outside and searched all over the neighborhood for her and started asking neighbors if they’d seen her. A parent who is worried about their kids doesn’t just stop at 3 calls.
@@mstripling86 I'm just like, I really wish the garage didn't smell like weed. Like, I smelled it, and I was like, who would do this? You know? Like, I just want it to, like, smell normal, you know?
He was probably cursing Nicole out in his mind through the bodycam footage. Like "why couldn’t you just mind your business". He really forgot Shanann had badass friends. Dropping off your friend at 2am then going back to drop her at an appointment within 8 hours? And immediately knowing that something was wrong because she knows her friend so well, that is love and true friendship.
Nicole is an absolute sweetheart and honestly a hero here. Seeing the full bodycam footage where she finds Shannan's phone in the house - she looks exactly the amount of anxious and terrified that Chris is clearly absent of. Her mannerisms after that really show how genuinely worried for her friend she was. Bless her heart, i hope her and her kids are doing as good as possible.
She even knew her bff passcode whereas Chris her hubby didn't even know which he should have, not to spy or look at her phone or stalk. But a hubby should know things like that as should the Mrs.
It's so ridiculous that people are impressed by his "detective skills". Every MORON would have seen that Chris acted extremely suspicious. I'm sure the police man noticed it too, but if HE would have said something, no one would praise him for it. Since the neighboor is an average guy, average people identify with him and hype him, thinking "he's smarter than police, so are we!"
He's a fuckin saint for straight up coming to the officer and saying bruh this ain't normal He might've been the only person to be able to do that and he just went right up and said bro this is weird and you gotta look into it So many people never speak up and you hear about cold cases decades later when it comes out that "oh yeah the neighbors thought something was fishy 30 years ago when it happened but didn't talk to anyone about it" This was someone who was honest to god horrified by what he was pretty sure happened and wanted to be sure something was done about it immediately, the world needs more people like that
Mine has a mutual understanding with me that we let each other know where we are, even if it's just the local shops. If I went missing she'd know about it very quickly indeed.
This case makes me so sick. Especially for his children. I can’t imagine how they felt as their father tried to kill them once only to try again, making his daughter watch as he strangled her sister before her. I hope he suffers and his actions haunt him forever.
Yeah this piece of shit pisses me off !! He is gonna come across some real bad dudes at the gates of hell !! He is going straight to hell !! A direct trip to the man down stairs
@@nancydavis4618Much to the disdain of the world; Chris Watts is kept in Protective Custody at the Dodge Correctional Facility in Waupun, Wisconsin. However, he is hated by not just the prisoners but also the guards. Many people are hoping that one of the cooks poisons Chris or that he is violently attacked by other inmates and dies of his injuries. Knowing how much Chris' mother Cindy and his sister Jamie hated Shannan chances are that Cindy was silently happy when it was revealed that Chris had murdered Shannan as well as Bella and Celeste. What made my blood boil about Cindy Watts was when she tried to publish a book titled "All my Broken Pieces." Due to severe public backlash the book deal for Cindy fell through. To be honest I had not seen such a massive amount of public outcry over a book about a high-profile in Colorado being published by the mother of the perpetrator since the publication of the book "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy" by Susan Klebold; the mother of one of the perpetrators of the shooting at Columbine High School.
He thought they would file a missing persons report and it would become a cold case..which might have happened if not for the 2 little kids missing with her. Also, she was a upper middle class woman..which tends to carry more weight with authorities.
@@coreywagner8998 What I am saying is..the police takes it more seriously if the missing person lives in a big house and is upper middle class, even if they weren't..they were pretending to be.
"I called her 3 times, I texted her 3 times, I just want her back" Dude if my wife ans children went missing, I'd be calling NONSTOP. He only called 3 times?!? What a horrible lie.
I’ve had a brief moment of worry, where I’ve called my girl like 27 times in the span of an hour. If it were a serious missing person situation, not only would be in frantic hysterics, my hand would basically become a machine designed to constantly end and restart phone call attempts. With brief interruptions only to call the police, relatives, and to send scatterbrained texts. He’s so emotionally void that he can’t even reason that a typical father and husband would respond with that level of panic, not even enough to better cover his tracks. He just does not understand human connection at all. It was well pointed out in the video, that you’d be telling the cops to kick your door in. You’d be sprinting down the drive, speeding and screeching up. You’d be rambling incoherently that your neighbours, some of them MUST have CCTV and that we need to ask them. His demeanour missed the mark so much it boggles the mind.
What’s disgusting is a lot of people blame the wife for this. I’ve seen videos where people try and portray her as this awful mother and wife and that Chris had no choice. It’s genuinely disturbing.
@@bambii8201 she was a huge btch lmao should have just left her a long time ago. It's terrible what happened to her, but she seemed insufferable. "How bimbo btch?"
A good neighbour to the wife. The minute his buddy Chris left he was straight to the Cop saying that motherfucker's acting weird and covering shit up hahaha
I can’t imagine the horror of her friend who probably knows this man did it at some level and has to share the same space with him when he pretends to not know anything. Also, it’s crazy how easily that neighbor just broke it all down about how odd he was acting.
This guy had the concept of loving your family described to him once 8 years ago and tried to remember what he was supposed to do the entire time eyes were on him.
its not a good idea to literally just leave everything she owns (phone, purse, car, even her shoes) at home and then pretend she just left without any of it. Literally the dumbest murderer out there.... theres so much more that this dumbass made obvious that its not even worth talking about because a sain person knows just looking at this monster
@@eriksimca9409 dumb as heck. I knew he was guilty when I saw the first interview in front of his house. He acting waaaay too nonchalant for someone whose pregnant wife and kids suddenly went missing. An innocent person would have lacked the composure for a interview or at least looked like they'd been crying red, puffy eyes, etc) Dude was straight chillin.
‘Bro, it’s just like really bugging me out that my kids and wife are missing. If you could just like, return them to me at some point, that would be chill, because it’s kind of messing with my vibe.’
@Kylie Richardson yeah apparently before the female affair partner he also cheated with a man, cant remember where i read that but should come up if u google
It´s shocking how he refers to his kids as those kids, he was distancing himself from his family, i will never understand why he destroyed everything a lot of people would do anything for
Because he has nothing inside him. He behaves the way he thinks the people around him want him to behave.He has a big molten core of angry inside of him, with no concience at all.Thats why he is so dangerous.
If I don't respond at second call, I'm done. I shall expect 10 calls one after another, then another 5 from my father, that my mother alerted, and then text messages from every relative I know and from all of the friends that my mom knows of. The part where he slowly fidgeted on his phone instead of shouting and going around the house in desperation was unbearable really.
The funny thing is, that interview was after the fact on the cops body cam when they went through the house the first time he found her phone already so idk why he would state he tried calling and texting when her phone was left at the house
My mother is deaf and she calls me if I don't respond to her texts, or texts my friends. Sometimes it's a bit much but because of what we've been through I understand
First time I heard about this, it's intriguing from this point of view.. I guess it's like when Yanks are interested in the Fred West case or Yorkshire Ripper story, that's almost part of the curriculum here!
This has always been the most horrifying murder case to me. I’m a father of a 2 month old and 3 year old and I cannot imagine doing something like this. I almost threw up after watching the Netflix documentary
That Fetus on his neighbors TV was so creepy. Chris stood in front of it. And It was like something was trying to give him a sign from the beyond. I absolutely hate Lifetime Movie Network for making that movie based on chris side. That he killed her because she threatened to take his kids away from him. When theres no proof that she ever said that. He made that up & it dont even make sense because he killed the kids himself.
Actually she did want full custody of the kids, especially because Chris's family almost killed one of the girls by giving them peanuts (one of them had allergy). She did not want the kids near that family at all
If she wanted full custody, and he wanted to be free of the burden of the children, why dud he kill them? Because he would still have to make payments if she had custody?
honestly BLESS his neighbor for speaking up saying he wasn't acting right and drawing concern about the situation, most people would try to not get involved
"Most people would not want to get involved" I disagree with this statement, especially considering the situation. If your neighbor could give info to finding a missing wife and children then I think most people would be pleased and anxious to give information that they perceive to be useful for the case. This country has gone to shit, but it would be worse if the average person wouldn't tell what they saw in regards to their own mising neighbor! That's a scary thought.
@@nwospidey5782 if the neighbor was a woman I'm sure she wouldn't had said anything and upset a potential killer who happens to live right next to you, if he's willing to kill his kids and wife what makes me think he won't come after me? Would be my thought.
“Shan'ann, Bella, Celeste... if you’re out there, just come back..” “IF” you’re out there. Even that’s an odd thing to say, given that they only went missing the day before
The way he laughs really gets me too. It’s common knowledge that laughter is a response to stress. But in this case he’s not stressed that his family is missing, he’s stressed that they’re going to figure out it was him.
Yeah, I tried to punch that worthless POS right after he said that but sadly, my smartphone does not have that kind of technology. Eff that POS. Eff him all the way to hell.
I saw this once and I came across to the video again but I just don't have the courage. It is so painful to know what those little girls had to go through. Undescribable.
Watching this again 4 years later I realised that one of the biggest red flags is the officer calling him and Chris Watts responding "Oh yeah, how you're doing?".
@@kristencollins1957 it's the daughter of Nicole, the friend. You see her earlier while they wait for Chris to turn up at the house. That's rarely explained and a lot of people were freaking out about it when these videos were originally shown!
He speaks as if someone stole his lawnmower. "Like if someone has my lawnmower and it's not safe, I want that lawnmower back so bad, like honestly like."
the other day my mom called and facetimed me over 30 times and sent family members to our home to wake me up .. for a single online course i love my mom
@@TheRubberStudiosASMR Following as well. This is absolutely disturbing that there are cases like this and Brian Laundries' happening. How are people so violent to someone they had once loved? Lived with? Share a family with? It's so disturbing and it chills my bones more than a serial murderer. Hearing and seeing them talk and act like just another dude you see at the grocery story... Just makes me recoil at how cruel people can be when they pretend to be all happy on the surface.
Oh certainly. Mind you, had he hired a lawyer immediately upon being called in for questioning, he woukd have had a lot more time as a free man. Easily bailed with almost zero direct evidence. He basically folded very quickly, because he had no idea what he was doing in that room. And the polygraph result? Don't make me laugh. Nobody cares about that pseudo-science.
He didn't expect Nicole Atkinson to be wary of Shannan's absence. He thought he'd be able to go about his workday as usual, then go home and clean up for a few hours, then start texting friends and family all night feigning concern before reporting her missing in the morning.
The only reason why Chris made these TV interviews was because Nickole Atkins forced him to do so. She just set it up to spread awareness about finding Shannan & the girls. She is the reason why he couldn't cover his tracks. She called the police, she called the TV stations. She is the best friend someone could ever have or wish for. And the two officers conducting the interrogation & the prison interview are just stunning.
I've seen the full 2000 page crime report and this is spot on. Shannon's friends were absolutely relentless in their pursuit to do everything possible to spread awareness.
@@loretohidalgo3533 I don’t think so I think the company he worked for would’ve ultimately found the girls bodies and he would’ve been prime suspect since he works there.
@@loretohidalgo3533 No way. This guy is a complete dumbass, he made very little effort to cover his tracks. Even if the wife's friend didn't call it in he would have been suspect number one.
@@loretohidalgo3533 that is a scary thought. At first I thought, no that’s insane. Then I thought, wait, this guy just did the most unthinkable. Who knows what he’s capable of. Sick.
Just highlights the importance of having a switched on friend and a neighbourly neighbour! Without those 2, who knows how long it would have taken the police to get fully involved
7:00 I love that after numerous microexpression lectures i can spot the clusters of decieving. He's got a MEAN case of duping delight (small smiles when you think you get away with a lie) and everytime he makes a statement he shakes his head no and hes very unsure of what he's saying (small shrugs). Also the slow blinks and then rapid blinks
@M1NDC0N7R0L what her weight has to do with anything? The op is talking about how she reacted quickly and probably one of the reasons the guy got caught
There's literally nothing Chris did that was normal during the initial call, him getting home, him being interviewed and this interrogation. He had to become such a wretched monster to kill his family and by doing so he honestly forgot how to be human.
@@dddddd211 Your dumber than a box of rocks. I've got 27 likes to your none so yeah "Your Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks". Go wash your mothers dishes before your daddy whips that a''''''.,,..,,.
She's the type of friend we all need. She had that gut instinct and went with it. When the friend spotted her purse and shoes still there before Chris even had a chance to get rid it shook him to his core. I can't believe he thought he'd get away with this. What a senseless heinous crime.
Boy, that Nikole is as good a friend as anyone could ask for. Went on the business trip w/ her, drops her off at 2Am and you can see she doesnt pull away until Shanann is inside, was taking her to her doctor's appt.. called the cops knowing right away something was wrong. She wins friend of the year!
Huh...that's like every other best friend you have, nothing surprising here. Except that she should have called the police when they heard the couple fighting the night before she died. She could have prevented her friend's death, so no, she doesn't win friend of the year.
@@SuperAvocadoo are you seriously blaming the friend for her death? suggesting that everyone should call the cops because they know their bestfriend is having a fight with their man is like 👁👄👁
@@SuperAvocadoo I mean screaming does not equal hitting, does not equal murder. Everyone has screaming matches in life, people can be angry and not hurt anyone else, not everyone literally murders their family. The best idea would be the friend should ask her and encourage her to leave him, not call the police about some shouting.
@@SuperAvocadoo My next door neighbours, up and down (terraced house on a hill) are both couples with young kids. The amount of screaming the women do to the young children and bfs on both sides on a daily basis is astronomical. The woman down especially always screams at her 2 daughters, no older than 10, calling them a F'ing b***h and a c**t all the time. I've even slammed on the wall and shouted at her and told her to stop yelling at a child like that many times. But in the end, it's nothing to do with me. So, according to your (awful) logic, should I ring the police every morning at 7am when she's screaming her kids out of bed? The girl who lives up from me is nowhere near as bad, but she argues with her bf every day and night, screaming too. I am in fact friends with her and her bf as we all grew up together and went to school together. I've messaged her about it asking if she's OK or needs help and she just tells me it's a lovers tiff and not to worry, like most would say. Do I call the police 5 times a day anyway just incase she gets murdered one time? Or do you think if people called the police every time somebody shouted it would be a boy who cried wolf scenario and they wouldn't take it seriously anymore? Leading to even more probable cases like this one. Think about what you're saying man. You only say what you say because of hindsight, and it's kind of idiotic to do so. You clearly don't understand what you're saying.
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Nicole is the real mvp. She realized something was wrong almost immediately. I'm sure Chris thought he had more time to cover his tracks and his heart sank when he found out cops were already at his house.
Absolutely! He didn't put Nicole being an awesome person and a true friend to Shanann into his narcissistic equation. We all need a friend like Nicole in our lives.
Tough case when kids are involved, hats off to the officers dealing with these people, I know I couldn’t come home to my family with out breaking into tears after a day with this man.
Well now I feel bad. When my great grandfather passed away, and I was told I was quiet, and responded with, "Oh.. damn." Sure I was extremely depressed at the time, and my life was going to shit around me, but now I feel like I'm just a terrible human
@@a_true_generic_gamer1104 I understand what you mean but everyone reacts differently. I was the same way when my grandma died, at first I was just like “oh” and then a few months later it actually hit me what had happened. Don’t feel guilty is what I’m saying lol I’ll stop rambling now-
Whenever my wife and kids went "missing" and I was questioned by the sheriff I was calm and stone faced. He probably thought I was the only who tossed the bodies in the lake but thank goodness the evidence proved it was the sheriff
@@a_true_generic_gamer1104 I feel like it depends on how close you are to your great grandparents. If you’re not that close to them, then I feel like your reaction is valid. Like someone else said, everyone reacts differently. I didn’t cry when my grandpa passed away but I bawled my eyes out constantly when I heard my best friend committed suicide.
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 So.... the sheriff murdered your wife and kids, hid them in the lake, and interrogated you about their disappearance? Savage
I love how the neighbor was spot-on. It’s easy for us to comment and say “yeah he’s guilty” but that neighbor was right there in the moment and knew something wasn’t right about Watts’ behavior.
@Live Wire If the neighbor was wrong, it ultimately wouldn’t have had much impact on the case. It would have just been a neighbor giving his two cents on the suspects behavior...BUT he had video evidence and could tell Chris wasn’t acting right, so he put two and two together. I’d totally agree with what you’re saying if the neighbor didn’t have video evidence to back up his suspicion. Also, you should tell police if someone isn’t behaving normal. Police ask this all the time when they interview friends and family of a suspect. “Was so-and-so acting strange on the night of the murder?” Idk, I think it’s helpful information in some cases.
@@gemjewelle2687 however Neighbor Nate also admitted that he had exaggerated to police when he told them Chris gets crazy during arguments and he admitted that he didn’t hear constant out of control screaming from the Watts’ house.i think Nate was helpful in showing the police the video and sharing with them that as a neighbor he was recognizing unusual behavior....the video of Chris’ truck pulled into the garage and ultimately capturing Chris putting Shanann’s body in the truck and putting the girls in there at 5:00 am was where the investigation started....again I give huge kudos to Nate and Nicole for being so on the ball that they instantly knew something was wrong. It absolutely prevented Chris Watts from being able to destroy more evidence and fabricate the “ Shanann took off with the girls “ scenario. He totally planned on coming home from work and taking care of “ setting the scene” and because Nicole was there at 9:00 am looking for Shanann and immediately knowing something wasn’t right, Chris was prevented from getting away with murder. I believe at some point he would have been caught. As gruesome as it is to think about, eventually the girls’ bodies would have been discovered in those oil tanks and they would know that he worked there the morning they went missing....I will also say that I don’t think Nicole K had anything physically to do with the murders, but she must have made a comment that threw Chris into a complete panic. I think she gave him an ultimatum. “It’s her or me....and I need an answer now”. I can’t remember if NK addresses this in her interview with Police but if Gris had told her they were separated and basically living separate lives, how did he explain his going to NC for a week with his family? Did he tell her he was just going to visit his parents for the week?
bitch his lying was SO shit, when he confessed to where the bodies were the police just knew that if you loved your family you would ditch them in a fucking oil tank, you'd call 911 😭
Jake you can’t properly lie when you’ve just committed a murder, it’s basically near impossible to hide your fear. When you got life in prison in the back of your mind it changes your speech pattern dramatically
Him texting on his phone when officers arrived could’ve been him responding to a co worker because he just left work it’s not that peculiar, this video over analyzes just a bit.
I can tell he didn’t plan for this at all and he killed her out of a sudden anger outburst, these introverted people are ticking time bombs when you keep picking at them they eventually explode. He probably would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for the wife’s friend calling the cops or the neighbor next door with the motion camera, he immediately knew he was screwed when his alibi was destroyed. He was planning on blaming the whole thing on her and saying she left and took the kids or someone took them out the house, but he didn’t factor in the cameras in the neighborhood that would’ve picked up a random car coming to the house. This was really sloppy, this was merely a rage that went wrong immediately and he just went with the flow.
I knew he was guilty when he talked about wanting to hear that knock on the door. You know, because everybody knocks on the door of the house they live in
It’s freaky but also a lot of men in real life have that separation with their child because they didn’t birth it how a person with a vagina has... tldr not uncommon
@Whorish Harlot Culture in general and some subcultures in particular (very conservative households) encourages them to leave the child raising to the mom as well. It's somehow seen as noteworty when a guy changes nappies or feeds his children. As long as that's our attitude, most fathers won't have as close a bond with their children as they could - and should.
@@benpearson49 I mean the type of conservative households that still subscribe to the idea of the woman as the homemaker who does all the house work and the child raising while the man is out working. The stuff you find in the tradwife Community. People who think like Girl Defined, The Transformed Wife, Classically Abby and whoever else exists in this Realm if conservatism.
@@BlueGangsta1958 And if you look into those arrangements further it's more than just the husband treating his wife like a slave and his kids as annoying byproducts of having had sex with her. A father is supposed to be the family's protector, provider, and teacher. In practical terms, he is to serve as a template for expected male behavior, reinforce, through education and discipline, preferential behavior, and transmit his practical knowledge to his children. Where I think the disconnect is with you, and a lot of other people, is that nurturing is not on the list. While it is certainly possible for a man to nurture as a woman does, men in general are not as good at it as women are. There are many scientific reasons for this. For example, women score higher in Agreeableness on Big 5 personality tests while men tend to be more analytical than emotional. However, both are needed to create confident, stable adults (this is also something backed by numerous studies).
it’s so disgusting how he’s talking about their blankies being gone and acting completely oblivious when he knows damn well he literally just murdered his daughters with those exact blankets
What is nauseating is... if he actually killed his daughters prior to throwing them in the batteries. If there's a small chance that one of them wasn't dead the moment he threw them in there... Omg is hurts my stomach to think about it.
😂Those kids were always, like, really nice to me and junk. And the older woman as well, you know. I sure hope like, that them kids and mother will come back soon and stuff. I don't know what I'll do or whatever.
Oh, is _that_ what he was trying to do? I was wondering what the deal was with the way he was acting, but that would have been about the last thing I'd guess.
He isn't though. He's sociopathic, least far as I can tell. They don't understand WHY people feel the emotions they do. They can fake em sure enough, even be convincing at times. But they don't inherently know the deep ceeded reasons why we feel them, what causes them. Side note sociopathy is trained, learned. You aren't born with it. Psychopathy is a hereditary thing, for the most part. He just flat out doesn't care. No malice. His family was in his way. They were a nuisance. Nothing more. So he eliminated the obstacle. He is having a hard time understanding why people are making such a big deal out of it.
@@joshmattingly8056 shouldn't he be able to understand the simple concept of "killing people makes people not live, and people want to live, therefore there will be consequences"
@@ES11777 Um...I can see where you are coming from but that's gonna be a hard no. Please, just Google sociopath and psychopath. There is a HUGE difference. I get that both CAN be evil, shit even NON sociopaths and psychopaths can be evil.
I’ve watch this one a few times before. I never thought about it til now, but I can’t imagine how it’d feel to be those neighbors after the case fully played out. They had their murderer neighbor in their house while showing important evidence against him to police. That neighbor’s face as soon as Chris exited his house looked like he just fell into the twilight zone. Like “wtf did we just walk into and who is this person I’ve known all this time?”
I'll never understand how someone could detach themselves to where they think and feel that instead of filing for divorce and having to co-parent, the better option would be to take the lives of your spouse and children.
his mistress referred to them in the same manner. i thought that was weird bc it implies when discussing the children, they refer to them as "those kids"
That’s a sign of lying. For example let’s say a guy terminates an innocent woman named Maria Smith. (The guy is fully aware of her name) when confronted, the man will say “I did not kill that woman” instead of “I didn’t kill Maria Smith”. In his case he’s referring to his kids as “those kids” to specify that he means those kids, but he also refrains from saying “MY kids” because he doesn’t want the interrogator to associate his kids’ death with him. He’s essentially striving to isolate himself from the crime to paint the illusion that he has no involvement.
