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Coral Eugene Watts
When Coral Eugene Watts died in a Michigan prison in 2007, it was believed he had killed as many as 80 women in Texas and Michigan during the 1970s and 1980s, including a Detroit News food writer and a Western Michigan University sophomore.
Now, he's featured in the first episode in a new true crime series called Unknown Serial Killers of America, which premiered May 18 on the TV network Oxygen, the Detroit Free Press reports.
A Texas native, Watts moved to Inkster with his mother after his parents divorced. He spent part of his childhood with a family member in West Virginia and also lived in Detroit’s Indian Village, according to the Free Press. He attended Western Michigan University for a time.
At the time of his death, Watts had confessed to 12 killings in Texas and one in Michigan, but he was convicted of two Michigan murders he never admitted to.
The Detroit News writer, Jeanne Clyne, 44, was walking home from an appointment when Watts stabbed her to death on Halloween night in 1979 in Grosse Pointe Farms, the Free Press reports.
See a documentary below from 10 years ago
