Carl Eugene Watts
"Coral" "The Sunday Morning Killer"
Childhood
When Watts was 13, he was infected with meningitis which caused him to be held back. When he returned back to school, he had difficulty keeping up with other students. He would fail classes, and reading third grade level at age 16. He also suffered severe bullying at school.
Behavior
Early Life
Watts spent the remainder of his teenage years getting into and out of trouble. He spent most of his time with his mother, and did not have many friends. Watts graduated from high school in 1973, and received a football scholarship to Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. He had one child, Nakisha Watts, with his girlfriend Deloris Howard. He then married Valeria Goodwill in August of 1979, divorcing in May 1980.
At the age of 13, Coral took a job delivering newspapers to earn spending money. This gave Watts and opportunity to stalk his victims from a distance.Incident
On June 24, 1969, Watts delivered the daily paper to Joan Gave to her door. He handed her the newspaper, and stood on the step watching her into the living room. For no apparent reason, Watts struck her in the face. He then lunged and began beating her. Joan began screaming and Watts ran into the streets with his newspaper bag. He continued delivering papers as if nothing happened.
The same day, Watts was arrested. He was then sent to a forensic psychiatry center in Detroit. Doctors interviewed Watts and he admitted he had dreams and violent fantasies of beating and killing woman that made him feel good. Doctors said he was struggling to control “homicidal tendencies and was considered dangerous.” They also recorded he “showed no remorse for his actions and was impulsive, reckless, and emotionally detached.” But they didn’t believe he suffered from any kind of psychosis and believed he was able to distinguish between right and wrong.Murders
October 30, 1974 - Lenore Knizacky, 23, was strangled and nearly killed in her apartment.
October 30, 1974 - Gloria Steele was stabbed to death 33 times. Watts never confessed to this murder. A trial was planned but put on hold.
November 12, 2015 - Diane Williams was attacked but lived.
October 8, 1979 - Peggy Pochmara, 22, was strangled to death.
October 31, 1979 - Jeanne Clyne, 44, a reporter for the Detroit News, was stabbed 11 times in the chest and killed as she walked in her neighborhood in Grosse Pointe Farms.
December 1979 - Helen Mae Dutcher was stabbed 12 times and died in Ferndale. Watts denies crime.
March 11, 1980 - Hazel Connof, 23, was strangled to death.
March 31, 1980 - Denise Dunmore, 23, was strangled to death.
April 20, 1980 - Shirley Small, 17, was stabbed twice and died.
May 31, 1980 - Glenda Richmond was stabbed 28 times and died.
These were his first 10 kills, and there were more after. Killed 20-100 people