[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I would like to think I'd definitely not delete stuff that could help Police convict him tbh

Regarding her going to Police before they knew about her, I've read reports that they did know about her before she came forward. Also, they were in a new relationship but she had googled both Chris and Shan'ann up to a year before the relationship started and before Chris even knew her which is really really odd :

The discovery documents examined by CrimeOnline included a “Phone Data Review,” which showed the internet search history of principals in the case, including Kessinger. The recovered phone data, which included some entries that had been deleted from her search history, appear to show that Kessinger did online searches for the names Shanann Watts and Chris Watts as far back as 2017, and on multiple occasions before both she and Chris Watts said their affair began. A records supervisor initially told CrimeOnline that an entry for a Google search of Shanann Watts in September 2017 was a “typo” in the report. But Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke later said, in a December 2018 interview with CrimeOnline, that the items in the report accurately reflected what was found in the data review.
https://www.crimeonline.com/2020/10/...an-she-let-on/

She deleted it before she knew he was guilty (it was on the first night), and I think it's a human thing to do. I'd like to think I'd have kept all the info too, but honestly, it's such a crazy pressurised situation, I just don't know how panic and everything sets in.

They obviously both lied about the start date of them seeing each other, and probably a lot of other things too, like the fact she said she didn't know they were pregnant - which is obvious bollocks.

They may have known about her, but she came forward before they needed to look for her. Even the police officer admitted that in one of her crazy interviews.