Memorial planned for serial killer's victims (8-3-02)

The victims of confessed serial killer Coral Eugene Watts will be remembered at a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 3511 Yoakum Boulevard.

The event also serves as a call to action, said Andy Kahan, director of the Houston Victims Assistance Center which is sponsoring the event along with Justice For All.

Watts pleaded guilty to burglary in 1982 in return for immunity in the slayings of 13 area women. Suspected in more than 80 killings, he is scheduled to be released from prison in May 2006.

Kahan said the survivors of Watts' victims will be on hand to mark the 20th anniversary of his conviction. Petitions asking the governor to form a committee to study Watts ' case and come up with a way to prevent his release also will be available for signing.

Watts has an IQ of about 75 and thinks all women should be exterminated. IF HE'S LET OUT, HE WILL KILL AGAIN!

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Coral Eugene Watts

Coral Eugene Watts began his known killings when he stabbed and mutilated fellow Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele. Suspected of the crime but never charged, Watts was sent to prison on an unrelated assault just a few days after Steele's murder and served one year, gaining his release in 1975.

Watts moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and began killing women with regularity and earning the press moniker of "The Sunday Morning Slasher." His killing were marked by very extreme violence and mulilation. He moved to to Houston, Texas, in 1981 and after committing a few more slayings he was captured after a botched murder attempt on May 23, 1982.

After his arrest Watts agreed to admit to all of his murders in return for a sixty year burglary sentence. Somehow prosecutors agreed to this deal and Watts admitted to twenty-two killings, revealing for the first time that he would often travel into Detroit and Canada to committ crimes when he lived in Michigan.Authorities believe his total number of kills could be as high as forty women.

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