The bodies of two missing Colorado girls, ages 3 and 4, were submerged in crude oil for four days before they were recovered Thursday, court documents revealed.
The girls’ father, Christopher Watts, stands accused of murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, 34, and their two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3.
The girls may have been strangled to death, the Denver Post reported.
Sources told Denver’s KMGH-TV that the father may have placed the girls’ bodies inside oil and gas tanks on his employer’s property in order to prevent passersby by from smelling the corpses.