PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — On day three of Blair Watts' trial, jurors watched a two-hour interview Watts gave with detectives just days after his business partner Jennifer Brown went missing.
He insisted he had nothing to do with Brown’s disappearance, but also appeared to contradict himself.
Watts was the last person to see Brown before she disappeared on Jan. 3. She was reported missing the next day.
He was interviewed twice while authorities searched for her, not as a suspect, but as an informative witness.
Watts first talked to detectives on Jan. 6. Montgomery County Detective Jack Wittenberger says Watts called him the next day, on Jan. 7, sounding upset, saying he needed a friend.
Wittenberger had Watts come in for another interview, saying there were inconsistencies he hoped to clear up.
Watts initially said he and his wife only had one car. In the second interview, he admitted he also had a red Jeep Cherokee.
When Detective Wittenberger asked Watts why his girlfriend told detectives that Watts had instructed her not to tell police about the red Jeep, Watts seemed surprised and denied he had told her that.
Detectives also asked why he didn’t tell them he had Brown’s phone when he left her house on Jan. 3. Watts says he grabbed it by accident and immediately took it back into Brown’s house.
In both interviews, Watts insisted he and Brown had a good relationship and never argued.