Carl Eugene Watts
Carl Eugene Watts | |
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Watts in 2004 | |
| Born | November 7, 1953 Killeen, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | September 21, 2007 (aged 53) Jackson, Michigan, U.S. |
| Other names | The Sunday Morning Slasher Coral |
| Spouse | Valeria Goodwill (1979–1980) |
| Children | 1 |
| Convictions | Texas Aggravated burglary Michigan First degree murder (2 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | Texas 60 years imprisonment Michigan Life imprisonment |
| Details | |
| Victims | 15–100+ |
Span of crimes | 1974–1982 |
| Country | United States |
| States | Michigan Texas |
Date apprehended | May 23, 1982 |
Carl Eugene Watts (November 7, 1953 – September 21, 2007), dubbed the Sunday Morning Slasher, was an American serial killer who murdered numerous women and girls between 1974 and 1982. Watts is suspected of being the most prolific serial killer in United States history. He died of prostate cancer while serving two sentences of life imprisonment without parole in a Michigan prison for the murders of Helen Dutcher and Gloria Steele.
Watts officially confessed to the murders of thirteen women but later claimed he had killed forty women and also implied that there were more than eighty victims in total. He would not confess outright to having committed these murders, however, because he did not want to be seen as a "mass murderer." Police consider Watts a suspect in ninety unsolved murders, and he is now suspected to have killed more than one-hundred.