‘Young guys flock to him’: Chris Watts has had multiple relationships with men while in jail

Chris Watts is said to have had a string of romantic relationships in jail, including sexual relations with other male inmates. 

Watts is currently serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for the 2018 murders of his pregnant wife Shanann Watts, and their two young daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste. He is jailed at a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin.

However strict the prison might be, relationships seem to be something he’s still getting. Just one month ago it was reported he had broken things off with his prison “wife”. He was reported to have struck up a relationship in prison with a woman called Lizzie, who is a real estate agent. She relocated to Wisconsin, in order to be closer to Watts.

Prior to the abrupt breakup, Lizzie had already started calling herself Lizzie Watts, and applied to marry him within the prison system. Photos showed her wearing a wedding ring, and prison records show she visited Watts 20 times in 2025, and also spent Christmas Day with him in 2024.

The couple are said to have “got physical” in visits, with one witness describing a “steamy makeout session” one time Lizzie was at the jail. Now he’s a single man again, Chris Watts is said to have struck up even more prison relationships.

via Colorado Bureau of Investigation

According to The Daily Mail, he’s had same-sex relationships, and an employee from the prison has shared all about them. “Younger guys flock to Chris,” the prison employee told the publication. “He’s really got a hold over them and they’ll usually do whatever he wants.”

The publication said younger male inmates are “competing” for the killer’s affection, and are “insanely attached” to him. “They follow him around, want to talk to him, want his attention,” the source said. “And he’s generous with his commissary, so he [gets] things for them, gifts, [or] whatever it takes for them to like him.”

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Most of the men are said to be in their 20s, and 41-year-old Watts “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.”

And, the relationships are said to have turned physical. “There have been times where it’s pretty obvious something happened. When I say these guys will do anything for him, I mean anything,” the prison source claimed. “There is some thinking among guards that these relationships are too intimate.”

According to Daily Mail, Watts has previously been disciplined when underwear, petroleum jelly and baby oil was found in the cell of another inmate.

A former inmate, who did not want to be named, described his relationship with Watts as “intimate”. He told the publication: “We were as close as two men can be. 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. 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.”

The chilling story of Watts’ crimes was told in American Murder: The Family Next Door, which first aired on Netflix in 2020.

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