(NewsNation) — A Colorado father who murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters in 2018 believes God has "forgiven" him.

Chris Watts, who is serving a life sentence at Wisconsin's Dodge Correctional Institution, wrote in prison letters that he is a "new creature," per the Daily Mail.

Watts confessed to strangling his wife, Shanann, who was 15 weeks pregnant, in their home in Frederick on Aug. 13, 2018, after she returned from a business trip.

He then drove her body to his job site and disposed of it. Watts also suffocated his two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, and hid their bodies in oil drums.

"I am a new man, I am not the person who committed those horrible acts. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says 'If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed

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