He admitted it, and there's a witness...
Ok, here's one...
The guy has admitted to killing 13 women, and the murder for which he's being charged has a WITNESS.
IN COURT: November trial set for Watts in 1979 killing
June 16, 2004
Confessed serial killer Coral Watts will go on trial in November for the 25-year-old murder of a Ferndale woman.
Watts, 50, was dressed in orange-and-white-striped jail garb Tuesday, surrounded by deputies during his arraignment in Oakland County Circuit Court on a first-degree murder charge. Judge Richard Kuhn entered a not-guilty plea for Watts, standard procedure in criminal hearings, and set a Nov. 8 trial date.
Watts, who has admitted to killing 13 women, is accused of stabbing Helen Dutcher, 36, a dozen times on a snowy December night in 1979. A witness testified at a hearing last month that he saw Watts slit Dutcher's throat.
Watts has been in a Texas prison for years under a deal he cut with prosecutors there in which he confessed to several slayings. In exchange, he was allowed to plead guilty to a burglary charge and received a 60-year sentence.
But a change in Texas law means Watts could be released as early as May 2006. Michigan prosecutors say he is linked to several killings in the state, including Dutcher's, and hope to keep him in prison for life.
And so WHAT'S the problem?? Personally, it pisses me off that he was allowed to plead guilty to burglary after he'd confessed to several murders. He's the kind of person the death penalty was made for.
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