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Admitted Mich.-Texas Serial Killer Dies
AP via SFGate ^ | 9/21/7

Posted on 09/21/2007 12:28:04 PM PDT by SmithL

Jackson, Mich. (AP) -- A confessed serial killer who authorities said may have been responsible for dozens of deaths died Friday, only a little more than a week after he received a second life sentence, authorities said.

Coral Eugene Watts, who said he targeted women with evil eyes, died in a secure area of Foote Hospital, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. He was 53, and the cause of death was apparently prostate cancer, Marlan said.

The Michigan attorney general's office has said Watts was a suspect in more than 25 slayings and may have killed more than 80 women. He had confessed to 12 killings, 11 in Texas and one in Michigan.

Last week, Watts was sentenced to a life prison sentence, his second, in the slaying of Gloria Steele, a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student, in 1974. He had been convicted of first-degree murder in July, and the sentence of life without parole was mandatory.

Watts was already serving a life sentence in the 1979 death of 36-year-old Helen Dutcher in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.

Michigan authorities revived the Dutcher and Steele cases in an effort to keep Watts behind bars because he was to have been released from a Texas prison in May 2006.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: coraleugenewatts; serialkiller
If every Life Sentence was for a week, . . .
1 posted on 09/21/2007 12:28:08 PM PDT by SmithL
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may have killed more than 80 women. He had confessed to 12 killings, 11 in Texas and one in Michigan.

Although I agree with your statement--it would have been nice to maybe resolve the above.

2 posted on 09/21/2007 12:32:19 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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. . . the cause of death was apparently prostate cancer . . .

Any bets that somebody will try to sue the state for improper medical care?

3 posted on 09/21/2007 12:32:54 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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Foote Hospital

Appropriate, for such an arch heel.

4 posted on 09/21/2007 12:35:13 PM PDT by JennysCool (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: SmithL

Now his eternal sentence begins...unless he got things right with God.


5 posted on 09/21/2007 12:36:44 PM PDT by HanneyBean
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Tax savings BUMP!


6 posted on 09/21/2007 12:37:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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Another tax cut for the rich. Yippee


7 posted on 09/21/2007 12:39:04 PM PDT by sappy
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MI ping.

its probably a good thing he died, granholm probably would have reduced his crime to a misdemeanor and released him.


8 posted on 09/21/2007 12:43:45 PM PDT by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders- don't re-elect them!)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Eugene_Watts


9 posted on 09/21/2007 12:45:47 PM PDT by packrat35 (PIMP my Senate. They're all a bunch of whores anyway!)
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Good riddance! We had just moved into this house, our first with a burglar alarm, when one of his victims was found just down the street. WE started using our alarm then and haven’t stopped since, it was a wake up call for us.

If I remember correctly he followed her on the freeway and slashed her to death when he caught her.


10 posted on 09/21/2007 12:51:35 PM PDT by Ditter
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A confessed serial killer who authorities said may have been responsible for dozens of deaths died

That's hard news, grievous hard.

11 posted on 09/21/2007 1:31:35 PM PDT by stevem
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Prostate Cancer is supposed to be pretty painful right? In this case, I hope it was.


12 posted on 09/21/2007 1:32:20 PM PDT by cyclotic (Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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