Chris Watts 2012 Video May Hold Clues To Killings Motive: WATCH

BROOMFIELD, CO – A 2012 YouTube video submitted by accused Colorado killer Christopher Watts for a North Carolina community college course seems to have an eerie relevance to questions about his motive in allegedly killing his wife and two young children.

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"The first phase of deterioration is interpersonal dissatisfaction which when you become unhappy with all the everyday interactions with you and your partner," Watts says on the video, submitted in April, 2012 for a speech and communications class at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. "You also begin to see your future with your partner as a negative future," he says.

Watts, 33, of Frederick, Colorado, is accused of killing his wife of six years, Shanann Watts, 34 and their two daughters Celeste, age 4, and 3-year-old Bella and dumping bodies on property of Anadarko Petroleum Company, where he was employed. The Weld County District Attorney is expected to file three counts of first-degree murder and other charges on Monday.

On the video, Watts says he's broadcasting from Broomfield, where the couple lived for a year before moving to Frederick, according to 2015 bankruptcy documents. Christopher and Shannan Watts married in November of 2012 in North Carolina.

Videos posted on social media by his late wife seemed to indicate that Christopher and Shanann had a happy relationship. Shanann referred to her husband as "my rock" and her "soulmate."

Our love just grows strong everyday! We have two beautiful little girls that call us mommy and daddy! We sold a house, moved to Colorado 5 years ago and built a home for our family! You make me a better person, you believe in me, we have dreams and goals together, you understand me, you put up with me!

But on the 2012 video, Chris Watts's research project explores in detail how relationships fall apart. Watts discusses relationship enders, "sudden" and "gradual."

"Sudden would be an example of infidelity but somebody is not faithful to their partner," Watts says. "The partners realize that it cannot be sustained. Gradual would be if you met somebody at work or a new friendship has occurred and as it goes on you see that OK, maybe this relationship has more potential than the relationship on behalf of my partner and that will gradually push the old relationship out and push new relationship in."

Watts also remarks in he speech that "[When a] relationship breaks up it's generally the more attractive one that leaves, which I agree with somewhat."

After he had been arrested, Amanda Thayer, a friend of the couple with whom Chris stayed after the family disappeared, said Shanann confided to them that she was worried Christopher was cheating. Thayer and her husband said publicly they were sorry they believed Chris when he said Monday, Aug. 13 that his wife and children were missing and he didn't know where they were.

Christopher Watts ends the 2012 speech with a list of ways to rekindle a relationship that has deteriorated.

"If you want your relationship to keep going I would suggest maybe go to a place where you first met or go to some go bungee jumping go somewhere that will bring the excitement back...Keep channels of communication open always disclose your feelings don't keep things bottled up because it will later come back to bite you..."

It is unclear whereto Christopher Watts selected this topic for his presentation or whether it was assigned by Central Piedmont adjunct professor Brenda Armentrout. Messages to Armentrout were not immediately returned. Jeff Lowrance, Central Piedmont's public information officer, confirmed that Christopher Lee Watts attended the community college for one semester in 2012 in the college transfer program, but did not earn a credential or degree.

A slimmer, more confident Watts, without glasses appeared in video interviews last week begging for the return of his wife and daughters, only a few hours before being arrested in connection with their killings.

"I just want them back. I just want them to come back," he told the station. "If they're not safe right now, that's what's tearing me apart right now."

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