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  Parole Protest Letters Requested   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Watts was finally captured while fleeing an attack on two women in their apartment, where another woman was found strangled in her bathtub.
On Sept. 9, 1982 Watts was sentenced to 60 yrs.
On Sept. 9, 1982 Coral Eugene Watts was sentenced to 60 yrs.
www.texansforequaljustice.org /protest/watts.shtml   (669 words)

  
 Murder trial opens for admitted serial killer scheduled for release - Courttv.com - Trials
When authorities caught Watts in the act of attempting to drown Houston student Lori Lister in 1982, he was a suspect in at least 26 other murders, but police lacked sufficient evidence to lay murder charges against him.
Watts successfully appealed the finding of an aggravating factor — the water he used to try to drown Lister — and was deemed a nonviolent felon, thus entitling him to receive three days' good-time credit for every day served in prison.
Watts' lawyer, Ronald Kaplovitz, acknowledged that his client is not a sympathetic character given his admitted acts, but still called on the 12-person panel to focus their attention on the facts at hand in this case.
www.courttv.com /trials/watts/110804_ctv.html   (688 words)

  
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Watts' trial attorney in the Dutcher case says he believes his client would have been acquitted in her death were it not for the evidence of his past crimes.
Watts was convicted in the Dec. 1, 1979 stabbing death of Helen Dutcher, 36, in a Ferndale, Mich., alley.
..Coral Eugene Watts was convicted in the Dec. 1, 1979 stabbing death of Helen Dutcher, 36, in a Ferndale alley.
www.crimezzz.net /serialkiller_news/WATTS_coral_eugene.php   (16658 words)

  
 Coral Watts - Serial Killer
Watts is the storm in the sky, sea and ground.
Watts was convicted in the assault cases and had started serving a year's sentence when police confronted him with questions about the Steele murder.
Watts refused to answer and, after conferring with a lawyer, began complaining of depression and was sent to Kalamazoo State Hospital.
www.murdervictims.com /watts.htm   (5521 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Scramble to keep serial killer in Texas jail
HOUSTON —; When Coral Eugene Watts stood to hear his punishment after confessing to the vicious, random slayings of 13 women, the judge knew the prison sentence he was about to hand down was inadequate.
Watts told police that he strangled a Houston woman and then held her head in a flowerpot full of water to make sure she was dead.
Although Watts did not confess to the Dutcher slaying, the judge plans to admit his confession in the other killings as evidence of a pattern of behavior.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002083727_serial06.html   (894 words)

  
 Serial killer: I didn't murder 2 Michigan women - 08/24/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Coral Eugene Watts is escorted out of a Pontiac courtroom in November 2004 after he was found guilty in the 1979 stabbing death of Helen Dutcher of Ferndale.
Watts was given a 60-year sentence on a burglary charge in exchange for immunity for admitting to killing 12 Texas women as well as former Detroit News reporter Jeanne Clyne in Grosse Pointe Farms in 1979.
Watts claimed prosecutors ignored, lost or twisted evidence and coaxed an eyewitness, Joseph Foy, in a rush to convict him in the Dutcher case.
www.detnews.com /2005/metro/0508/24/A01-291143.htm   (1905 words)

  
 Serial killer to stand trial for stabbing death of college coed - Courttv.com - Trials
A judge ruled there was enough evidence for Coral Eugene Watts, 51, to stand trial in the 1974 stabbing death of Gloria Steele, a 19-year-old college student.
Watts' attorney, Jeffrey Getting, argued there was not enough similarity between the other crimes and the Steele killing.
In December, a judge sentenced Watts to life in prison for the murder of Helen Dutcher in a Detroit suburb.
www.courttv.com /trials/watts/022305_newcharges_ap.html   (255 words)

  
 Serial Killers
Coral Eugene Watts, 50, confessed in 1982 to stabbing, strangling, hanging and drowning 12 women in Texas, and one in Michigan.
Watts was to be released from a Texas prison April 2006 as part of a 1982 deal that led to a 60-year sentence for burglary with intent to murder.
November 2004, Watts, 51, was found guilty of stabbing Helen Dutcher, 36, to death in a Detroit suburb in 1979, and faces a sentence of life in prison without parole.
www.karisable.com /skaz.htm   (4894 words)

  
 Coral Eugene Watts, The Sunday Morning Slasher - The Crime library
Investigators identified the attacker as Carl "Coral" Eugene Watts, 29, a
When they asked him why he tried to kill the women, he told them that they had "evil eyes" and he wanted to "release their spirits." During further questioning, detectives were shocked to hear that Coral claimed responsibility for up to 80 murders.
Coral had long since lost control over his violent impulses and realized that he needed to kill to be happy.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/coral_watts/index.html   (931 words)

  
 Macomb Daily : Witness identifies Watts as Ferndale killer 11/11/04
Watts, 51, is on trial for the first time for murder.
Watts, an Inkster native, was sentenced to 60 years for burglary with intent to murder after he confessed.
Watts is set to be released in May 2006 under a mandatory release law for good time served.
www.macombdaily.com /stories/111104/sta_watts001.shtml   (796 words)

  
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Watts was arraigned on a first-degree murder charge stemming from the 1979 stabbing death of a Detroit woman.
Watts is scheduled to be released from prison in less than two years, after serving just 24 years of a 60-year sentence.
So when Watts began killing young women, no one suspected that it might be the work of one man. Watts would later confess to stalking and killing 12 Texas women.
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 Reporter-News Online: Texas News -- Admitted serial killer Coral Eugene Watts denied parole
HOUSTON (AP) - Admitted serial killer Coral Eugene Watts, set to be released from a Texas prison in 3 1/2 years, has been denied parole for a fifth time.
In 1982, Watts was sentenced to 60 years in prison for burglary with intent to commit murder in a plea agreement in which he also confessed to killing 13 women.
Watts confessed and received immunity for strangling a 20-year-old Houston woman, Michelle Maday, the same morning he was arrested.
texnews.com /1998/2002/texas/texas_Admitted_1113.html   (605 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | News | Evil Eyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Watts agreed to plead guilty to "burglary with intent to commit murder" in return for a sentence of 60 years.
That episode connected Watts to a series of attacks in Southfield from June to October in 1978, when five women were assaulted at night by a man who had slipped inside their homes.
Watts' sister, Sharon Watts, who lives in Detroit, is troubled by the media attention on efforts to keep her brother in prison.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2003-06-19/feature_full.html   (9170 words)

  
 Serial Killer Scheduled for Release in 2006 - Private Investigator Forums
Watts is believed to have killed dozens of women, and authorities in Texas and Michigan are scouring old files, archives and evidence folders for any shred that might tie him to an open case for which he didn't receive immunity in the plea.
Watts first came to the attention of authorities in Michigan in 1974 when he was accused of choking and beating a woman in Kalamazoo.
Coral Eugene Watts was tried and convicted in a Michigan court for first-degree murder and will serve a life sentence upon release from the Texas criminal justice system.
www.ipiu.org /forums/showthread.php?t=10931   (1885 words)

  
 Macomb Daily : Testimony begins in new trial for serial killer 11/10/04
Authorities say Watts, an Inkster native, is suspected of killing from 26 to 100 women in Michigan, Canada, and Texas, but has never been tried for murder until now.
Watts, 51, confessed to killing more than a dozen women in Texas and one in Grosse Pointe Farms almost three years after prosecutors say he fatally stabbed Dutcher on Dec. 1, 1979.
But he added that because Watts confessed to murders in 1982 doesn't mean he killed Dutcher, whom Watts never admitted slaying.
www.macombdaily.com /stories/111004/sta_killer001.shtml   (877 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Confessed serial killer could walk the streets again, unless Michigan can ...
The slayings Watts confessed to – 12 in Texas and one in Michigan –; were as varied as they were grisly.
Earlier this year, a Michigan man who saw a TV report on the Watts case came forward to say he saw Watts struggle with 36-year-old Helen Mae Dutcher, who was stabbed 12 times in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale in 1979.
Although Watts did not confess to the Dutcher slaying, the judge plans to admit his confession in the other murders as evidence of a pattern of behavior.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20041105-1057-serialkiller.html   (966 words)

  
 Serial Killer Coral Eugene Watts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Suspected in a string of killings and attacks in southeast Michigan and Windsor, Watts moved to Texas in 1981 to escape around-the-clock police surveillance.
Watts confessed in 1982 to killing 12 women in Texas and one in Michigan, and is suspected in at least 26 other killings.
Lacking evidence, authorities in Texas and Michigan allowed Watts to plead guilty to burglary in exchange for confessions to the murders of 12 Texas women and former Detroit News reporter Jeanne Clyne, who was stabbed in Grosse Pointe Farms on Halloween, 1979.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/serialkillers/watts.htm   (181 words)

  
 Coral Watts Sentenced to Life in Prison
LANSING – Convicted serial killer Coral Eugene Watts, who was slated to be released from prison in 2006, was sentenced this afternoon to life in prison for a 1979 first-degree murder, Attorney General Mike Cox announced today.
Watts was found guilty on November 17 stemming from the 1979 first-degree murder of Helen Dutcher.
In addition, Watts is suspected of 26 murders and has claimed to have killed more than 80 victims.
www.michigan.gov /ag/0,1607,7-164-17334_34795-106049--,00.html   (328 words)

  
 A Deal With The Devil? , Steve Kroft Reports On Confessed Serial Killer Coral Eugene Watts - CBS News
Watts has been in trouble since he was 15, when he attacked a woman on his paper route.
Watts’ ability to elude authorities followed him to Ann Arbor, Mich. It was 1980, when three young women were brutally murdered by someone the police and newspapers dubbed the “Sunday Morning Slasher.”
As Watts tried to drown her roommate in the bathtub, Aguilar managed to escape, throwing herself off the second-floor balcony.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/08/05/60minutes/main761396.shtml   (1114 words)

  
 Serial killer guilty in 1979 murder case - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Coral Eugene Watts, 51, was found guilty of stabbing 36-year-old Helen Dutcher to death in a Detroit suburb in 1979.
Julie Sanchez demonstrates on prosecuting attorney Thomas Cameron how convicted killer Coral Eugene Watts allegedly attacked her on the side of a Texas highway more than 20 years ago after she stopped to fix a flat tire on her car.
The families of Watts’ suspected victims pushed for a plea bargain because they saw it as the only way to find out what happened to their loved ones.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6513100   (788 words)

  
 Serial killer could walk the streets again - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Coral Eugene Watts waived extradition at a hearing in Huntsville, Texas, in May.
Earlier this year, a Michigan man who saw a TV report on the Watts case came forward to say he saw Watts struggle with Helen Mae Dutcher, 36, who was stabbed 12 times in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale in 1979.
Watts’ attorney, Ronald Kaplovitz, questions the witness’s 25-year-old identification of Watts and said he did not believe prosecutors had any scientific evidence.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6417091   (1047 words)

  
 News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES
A judge in Kalamazoo ruled Tuesday there's enough evidence for Watts to be tried in the 1974 stabbing death of Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele, 19.
Watts briefly attended Western Michigan in the 1970s.
Watts had received immunity for 12 killings, 11 in the Houston area and one in Michigan, in a 1982 deal with Texas prosecutors.
www.news8austin.com /content/top_stories/?ArID=131826   (183 words)

  
 Coral Eugene Watts - America's Debate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
When Coral Eugene Watts stood to hear his punishment after confessing to the vicious, random slayings of 13 women, the judge knew the prison sentence he was about to hand down was inadequate.
I saw the story of Coral Watts on Dateline or 60 Minutes about a month ago, and could not believe there was a possibility that this animal could be released - ever.
Watts found himself out the segregation unit of the prison he probably usually resides in and among the ranks of the general population.
www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=8619   (1846 words)

  
 Coral Watts - petition
In the year 2006, Coral Eugene Watts will be the first serial killer to be released in the country’s history.
Watts brutally and randomly murdered, at least, 13 Houston area women.
We, the citizens of Texas and other states in our country, are asking you to IMMEDIATELY form a task force or interim committee TO PREVENT WATTS's imminent release.
www.murdervictims.com /watts_petn.htm   (88 words)

  
 CORAL EUGENE WATTS: THE LADY KILLING BURGLAR - Message Board - ezboard.com
Coral Eugene Watts murdered at least 13 women but went to prison only for aggravated burglary; someday he'll get out
He'd already killed in the early morning hours of May 23, 1982, already followed Michelle Maday to her apartment, dragged her inside and drowned her in a bathtub of hot water, but he wasn't satisfied.
After listening to Watts for a few hours, Burney's attitude changed from incredulity to shock.
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 Daily Tribune : Watts murder trial testimony begins 11/11/04
PONTIAC — Dressed in a three-piece tweed suit and knee-high boots, Helen Dutcher left a Ferndale restaurant and walked into the hands of a killer who fatally slashed her neck and stabbed her a dozen times before she collapsed in a cold alley behind a Woodward Avenue dry cleaning shop.
Watts has to be freed in May 2006.
JAGUAR X type 2002, 46k miles, still under warranty.
www.dailytribune.com /stories/111104/loc_watts10001.shtml   (951 words)

  
 Freedom awaits serial killer who vowed to kill again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
INKSTER -- Coral Eugene Watts didn't miss a bite of his jelly doughnut as he told detectives how he stalked a Grosse Pointe Farms woman, then stabbed her 11 times on one of the suburb's busiest streets.
Sitting in a Texas jail, an immunity deal in hand, Watts nonchalantly described to Michigan and Texas authorities how he took the lives of 13 women since 1979.
The Liberal's soft spot for criminals is intentional.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/734505/posts   (1070 words)

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