Coral Eugene Watts
The Sunday Morning Slasher

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.   He was arrested in 1982 after breaking into a Houston apartment and trying to drown a woman.

Watts confessed in 1982 to killing 12 women in Texas and one in Michigan, and is suspected in at least 26 other killings.  He enjoyed killing women on Sunday morning before going to church.

Once he told a psychiatrist that women were evil and should be exterminated. It seems he practiced what he preached.  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.

Watts was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Credits for good behavior in prison reduced that sentence by nearly 40 years, even though he is suspected of killing as many as 80 women.  Conceivably, he could get out of prison someday.