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A known serial killer was set to be released from Texas prison in 2006, and had the state of Michigan not stepped in, he may have spent his final days a free man. How could this have happened? A series of missteps before and during his trial, of course, in addition to a now-repealed Texas law.
Carl Coral Eugene Watts, known as the Sunday Morning Slasher, was born in Killeen Texas in 1953. After suffering from a bout of Meningitis at 13, he was thought to have been rendered intellectually disabled, according to the psychiatric hospital that housed him after his first violent attack on a woman. However, a police officer who later questioned him found him to be intelligent and with an excellent memory. There does seem to be a consensus that Watts was delusional.
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A known serial killer was set to be released from Texas prison in 2006, and had the state of Michigan not stepped in, he may have spent his final days a free man. How could this have happened? A series of missteps before and during his trial, of course, in addition to a now-repealed Texas law.
Carl Coral Eugene Watts, known as the Sunday Morning Slasher, was born in Killeen Texas in 1953. After suffering from a bout of Meningitis at 13, he was thought to have been rendered intellectually disabled, according to the psychiatric hospital that housed him after his first violent attack on a woman. However, a police officer who later questioned him found him to be intelligent and with an excellent memory. There does seem to be a consensus that Watts was delusional.