HOUSTON--The murders were as random as they were vicious:stabbings, hangings, stranglings, drownings. The women didn't knoweach other or the hooded man who, according to one survivor, enjoyedthe killing so much he was "clapping and dancing."
Police eventually caught up with Coral Eugene Watts but couldn'tconnect him to the savage crimes in Texas and Michigan.
Desperate to close the cases, prosecutors agreed to a pleabargain. In 1982, Watts admitted he killed 13 women--"They had evilin their eyes," he said--but he went to prison for burglary withintent to commit murder.
He was sentenced to 60 years, and prosecutors, police and thejudge thought that was …
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