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A Colorado man who is in prison for killing his wife and two kids is back in the news after new information was just released by the family of his deceased wife.

The former mistress of Chris Watts reportedly applied for a name change this month, shortly after Netflix released a documentary focusing on events leading up to his arrest for the murders of his wife and two young daughters.  The Daily Mail reported that Nichol Kessinger, 32, applied for the change in Jefferson County, Colo. She was featured briefly on "American Murder: The Family Next Door," where she is seen in recordings telling police that she and Watts had an affair.

Letters From Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders.Shanann was expecting the couple’s third child at the time of her murder and Chris has since come out to confirm that he tried to make her miscarry.He fed his wife the opiate painkiller Oxycodone without her knowledge in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy.

Nichol Kessinger was quickly put into the spotlight after being named the woman who was having an affair with Chris Watts, 35, at the time he gruesomely killed his 34-year-old wife Shanann, who was pregnant with their son, and their two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, in Frederick, Colorado on Aug. 13, 2018, according to the Denver Post.