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Carl Eugene Watts
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Carl (Coral) Eugene Watts
"Sunday Morning Slasher"
Historical Events
- Vietnam War (1959-1975)
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)
- JFK assassinated (1963)
- March on Washington (1963)
- Civil Rights Act passed in US (1964)
- Martin Luther King Jr assassinated (1968)
- President Nixon resigns (1974)
- Jamestown Massacre (1978)
Description
Conclusions
- Lori Lister and Melinda Aguilar were Watts' last known victims.
- They escaped as he attempted to kill them and they found help, which led to his arrest.
- Watts received multiple life sentences for the murder of many different women.
- He confessed to many of his murders.
- He died of prostate cancer in a Hospital in Michigan at 53 years old.
- Who: He killed more than 100 women aged 14-44.
- What: Killed by strangulation, stabbing, bludgeoning, and drowning.
- When: Began his killing rampage at 20 years old in 1974 and continued through 1982.
- Where: Michigan and Texas
Forensics
Early Life
Victims
- Joan Grave
- Lenore Knizacky
- Gloria Steel
- Jeanne Clyne
- Helen Mae Dutcher
- Hazel Connof
- Denise Dunmore
- Shirley Small
- Linda Tilley
- Phyllis Tamm
- Emily LaQua
- Lori Lister
- Melinda Aguilar
- No evidence was ever found at any of the crime scenes.
- The attacks were so short in duration, no DNA evidence was ever found.
- He sometimes killed a woman by stabbing, but not touching her.
- In 1980, police witnessed Carl stalking girls, but could never convict him.
- They arrested him for a suspended license, but they didn't have evidence to convict him for the murders.
- Carl Eugene Watts was born on November 7, 1953.
- When he was 2, his parents separated and he was raised by his mother.
- At the age of 8, he got diagnosed with meningitis.
- Because of that, he missed a year of school and got held back in 8th grade.
- He received failing grades because he was so behind in school.
- As a child he also suffered from bullying.
- When he was 12 years old, Carl claimed that he started to fantasize about torturing and killing girls.
- He would stalk girls, and was believed to have killed his first victim when he was 15.
- At 15, he got arrested for beating up a woman.
- when policed asked why, he said "he just felt like beating someone up".
- Carl went to Lane College, but got expelled because he was accused of stalking and assaulting women.
- At night, he had violent dreams that disturbed his sleeping pattern.
- In the dreams he tried to fight off the evil spirits in women.
- He said that the dreams weren't nightmares because he "enjoyed them".
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