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Suspicion prison guards have about Chris Watts as killer dad is separated from male inmate in s*x controversy
Chris Watts has reportedly been separated from another male prisoner after prison staff allegedly became concerned about the pair's relationship.
The convicted family killer, who murdered his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their two young daughters in 2018, has long been the subject of speculation surrounding his sex life and relationships with women.
In the moments before strangling Shanann to death, Watts had sex with her for the final time, before smothering their daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, before he then dumped their bodies in oil tanks.
Watts later admitted that he wanted to get rid of his family so he could pursue a relationship with his co-worker and mistress, Nichol Kessinger.
However, she was reportedly not the only woman he had been seeing, with hairdresser Amanda McMahon telling the Daily Mail this summer that she had met Watts on Tinder the year before the murders, despite him being married. She described their sexual encounters as "animalistic" and "aggressive".
He has also reportedly received affectionate letters from women on the outside, while briefly becoming engaged to prison admirer Lizzie Henderson, with her even adopting his surname and was photographed kissing him during a prison visit last year.
The relationship has since ended, reportedly after Watts' mother, Cindy, encouraged him to reconsider the romance.
Watts has reportedly been involved in same-sex relationships
Now, fresh claims from inside Dodge Correctional Institution in Wisconsin suggest Watts may have developed intimate relationships with male prisoners.
According to a source employed at the maximum-security facility, Watts was recently separated from another male prisoner after guards allegedly became suspicious of an "inappropriate" relationship, with the prison employee claiming that younger inmates are particularly drawn to the 41-year-old.
"Younger guys flock to Chris," the source told the Daily Mail. "He's really got a hold over them and they'll usually do whatever he wants."
The source alleged that some of the younger prisoners become heavily invested in gaining Watts' approval, competing for his attention while he provides them with gifts and other items.
"They follow him around, want to talk to him, want his attention," the employee claimed.
"And he's generous with his commissary, so he [gets] things for them, gifts, [or] whatever it takes for them to like him."
Most of the prisoners serving time alongside Watts are reportedly men in their twenties, with some allegedly viewing him as an older brother or father figure, with the source also claiming that Watts writes lengthy letters to inmates he has formed close relationships with, even after spending much of the day in their company.
"Chris will see them all day and then at night write a long letter and hand it to them the next day. It really does make them feel special."
According to the employee, several younger prisoners have developed "crushes" on Watts, with the source suggesting that he appears to reciprocate their attention.
"There have been times where it's pretty obvious something happened. When I say these guys will do anything for him, I mean anything," they alleged.
"There is some thinking among guards that these relationships are too intimate."
A former inmate explained that prisoners seeking sexual encounters often have to find ways around the facility's security cameras, claiming that surveillance blind spots, sometimes only a few feet wide, can be used in communal areas.
Prisoners learn to "do it quickly," the former inmate said. "We're on a constant lookout."
This is not the first time Watts has faced questions about his relationships with male prisoners, after he was reportedly disciplined after guards discovered his underwear, petroleum jelly, baby oil, and other personal belongings inside the cell of fellow inmate Dylan Tallman.
The pair had become close while occupying neighboring cells and, according to prison records, regularly communicated through an electrical outlet in the wall between them.
They reportedly nicknamed the outlet the "holy outlet", using it to talk for hours and collaborate on Christian devotional writings, even describing themselves as "brothers in spirit".
The discovery of Watts' belongings in Tallman's cell prompted speculation that their relationship had become sexual. Both men were disciplined and subsequently separated.
Tallman, who denied that their relationship had been sexual, was later released in 2021 after serving time for drug-related offences.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the latest allegations, he said: "Nothing surprises me anymore. A lot happens in prison."
One inmate has claimed they had a sexual relationship
The Daily Mail also reportedly obtained the names of three other men suspected of having sexual relationships with Watts, although none agreed to discuss the claims on the record.
One former prisoner, who asked to remain anonymous, described his own relationship with Watts as "intimate".
"We were as close as two men can be," he admitted.
"I'm not saying that nothing happened, but not everything that you probably think.
"Chris is a guy who knows how to say the right things, and he can get you to really like him," the former inmate added.
"You find yourself kind of thinking about him when you're in your cell and he's in his. It's not sex, it's something more.
"He's got a lot of guys who would have sex with him if he asked."
Questions about Watts' relationships with men did not begin after his imprisonment, after a man named Trent Bolte came forward in 2018, claiming he had been involved in a secret, 10-month relationship with Watts before the murders in August of that year.
Bolte, now 37, alleged that the pair had met for secret encounters in hotel rooms and at a cabin in Wyoming, but the FBI was unable to substantiate his claims at the time, with Watts also denying that he ever knew Bolte.