Posted on 02/16/2022 9:19:40 AM PST by algore
41-year-old Jonathan Watson, a California inmate accused of killing two convicted child molesters with a cane last month, has publicly confessed to the murders. Watson added that he’d given prison officials plenty of warning before the attacks, but it fell on deaf ears.
In a letter to Mercury News, Watson confessed to killing 48-year-old David Bobb and 64-year-old Graham De Luis-Conti just one week after he was transferred to California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran.
In the letter, he stated that a “child molester” moved into his pod six days into his stay at the prison. He doesn’t say whether it was Bobb or Luis-Conti, instead referring to the man as “Molester #1.” Watson wrote that Molester #1 began watching PBS Kids in full view of the other inmates, who took it as a taunt.
Watson wrote about that night, “I could not sleep having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there, so I packed all of my things because I knew one way or another the situation would be resolved the following day.”
Watson spoke to a prison counselor the next day – two hours before the attacks – and stated that he needed to be transferred back to Level III “before I really (expletive) one of these dudes up.”
He said that the counselor “scoffed and dismissed me.”
He wrote: “I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1 and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again. But this time, someone else said something to the effect of, ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I recall saying, ‘I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him.”
Watson wrote that he then left the pod and was on his way to find a guard and turn himself in when he encountered Molester #2 and decided to kill again
“As I got to the lower tier, I saw a known child trafficker, and I figured I’d just do everybody a favor,” he wrote. “In for a penny, in for a pound.”
His beatings failed to draw the attention of the correctional officials, so he approached an officer and confessed.
“I told him, ‘I’ve got some pretty bad news,’ to which he ironically replied, ‘You’re not going to hit me with that cane are you?’” Watson’s letter read. “So after jesting for a moment, knowing this might be the last decent moment that I have for a long time, I told him what I’d just done, which he also didn’t believe until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I’d left in the dorm area
Well… bye!
He should be released on good behavior.
Are they sending him to the 0val 0ffice?
What was he in for?....................
Give him an extra ration of meatloaf.
Nice to know that the guards are right on top of things.
His Cane is Able.
All men are performing acts of evil, Shows that when evil has no more use for you it turns the hatred on you in the end.
Evil begets evil.
Doing the work that Californians won’t allow or do!
He was put in for killing child molestors
I’m surprised it took so many posts to get to the correct answer.
Second!
I imagine the only thing child molesters really fear is prison justice. I doubt they fear the state, your local DA, or “the law.”
Society has to take whatever justice it can get.
LOL .. I was thinking similar, “Early release!”
But then it dawned on me. The perverts in the government would be at risk, and they don’t want that.
Jailhouse Justice!
Probably not child molestation.
Wow. Starting to really like this guy.
Thats considered good behavior, right? Is he trying to get his sentence reduced?
Is the cane still okay?
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