Serial Killer Goes Free...
You would think that if they know he's a serial killer they'd do something to keep him in. We have so many people in jails, prisons, behind bars, on probation and costing us tax money, yet one guy manages to make a deal and they know he's killed more than Dahmer, Bundy, or any of those other well known guys....
(CBS) Coral Eugene Watts may be the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Hes already admitted to killing more than a dozen women, but authorities believe the actual number may be closer to 100.
Watts is scheduled to be released from prison in less than two years, after serving just 24 years of a 60-year sentence. How can that be?
It turns out Texas authorities made a deal with the devil back in 1982. They agreed to a plea bargain they thought would keep Watts behind bars for the rest of his life. But, as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, the deal has come back to haunt them, and Watts may become the first serial killer ever to be set free.
For the past 22 years, Watts has been locked up in the Texas prison system all but forgotten.
"Whats amazing to me is everybody in America has heard of a Ted Bundy, a John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer. But when you mention the name of Coral Eugene Watts, 99.99 percent of the public has no clue who youre talking about," says Andy Kahan, who is hoping to change that.
As director of the Crime Victims Office for the Mayor of Houston, he's trying to find some way to keep Watts from being released.
"I guarantee you, if he is released, women are gonna turn up murdered," says Kahan. "Theres no ifs, ands, or buts. This was a man that by his own admission stated that 'Im gonna kill again if they ever release me.' You do not rehabilitate a serial killer."
You would think that if they know he's a serial killer they'd do something to keep him in. We have so many people in jails, prisons, behind bars, on probation and costing us tax money, yet one guy manages to make a deal and they know he's killed more than Dahmer, Bundy, or any of those other well known guys....
(CBS) Coral Eugene Watts may be the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Hes already admitted to killing more than a dozen women, but authorities believe the actual number may be closer to 100.
Watts is scheduled to be released from prison in less than two years, after serving just 24 years of a 60-year sentence. How can that be?
It turns out Texas authorities made a deal with the devil back in 1982. They agreed to a plea bargain they thought would keep Watts behind bars for the rest of his life. But, as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, the deal has come back to haunt them, and Watts may become the first serial killer ever to be set free.
For the past 22 years, Watts has been locked up in the Texas prison system all but forgotten.
"Whats amazing to me is everybody in America has heard of a Ted Bundy, a John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer. But when you mention the name of Coral Eugene Watts, 99.99 percent of the public has no clue who youre talking about," says Andy Kahan, who is hoping to change that.
As director of the Crime Victims Office for the Mayor of Houston, he's trying to find some way to keep Watts from being released.
"I guarantee you, if he is released, women are gonna turn up murdered," says Kahan. "Theres no ifs, ands, or buts. This was a man that by his own admission stated that 'Im gonna kill again if they ever release me.' You do not rehabilitate a serial killer."
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Chances are pretty good that if he's going back on a killing spree, he's not gonna want to bother making sure the evil democrats make it into power.
