The Colorado home where Chris Watts brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters has now been sold.
On August 13, 2018, 36-year-old Watts fatally strangled his wife Shanann Watts - who was 15 weeks pregnant with their son - inside the couple's home.
He later took her body away in his truck with his two young daughters - Bella, four, and Celeste, three - and then smothered both children with a blanket.
Since Watts' arrest, the infamous house has been on and off the market and its reputation is believed to have made it a hard sell for real estate agents. Now, four years after the devastating murders, it has finally been sold for $600,000, according to The Sun.
The outlet reports that a real estate agent posted a congratulatory note on social media to the new family, writing: "It took everything we had to get here!!! So happy for you guys and can’t wait to see the memories you make in your new home!!!"
"Since it’s been asked. Yes, this was the Watts house. It is now the Miller home and they cannot wait to put love, family, and laughter back into this house," the agent added, per The Sun.
The house was built in 2013 and the Watts were its first owners, paying around $400,000 for it. It features five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and three parking spots.
In 2015, the couple filed for bankruptcy, according to court papers obtained by CBS Denver, after struggling to meet their $3,000 monthly mortgage payments.
They were due to appear in court in August 2015 after they were sued by the homeowner's association for $1,533.80 and issued a summons.
After the tragic murders, the home remained unoccupied and defaulted on the mortgage. The lender foreclosed the property and placed it on the market, but due to obvious reasons, it did not sell.
"It's not getting any bids because people know the sordid history of the house, and nobody wants it," Denver-based bankruptcy attorney Clark Dray told Realtor in 2020. "It just sits in limbo until [a creditor] comes along and tries a foreclosure again."
The violent murders were the subject of the Netflix documentary: American Murder: The Family Next Door.
After killing his 34-year-old wife, the husband buried her in a shallow grave and then stuffed his children's bodies through the eight-inch hatches of two different oil drums.
The documentary showed how, for two days, Watts claimed he had nothing to do with his family's disappearance and even went on television begging them to come home.
When he was finally suspected to be the murderer, he claimed that his wife had killed their daughters after he had told her he wanted a separation, and then said that he had strangled her in anger.
At his trial, he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. He is now serving five life sentences plus 48 years in prison - without the possibility of parole - at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin.
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