November 7, 1953 - Carl Eugene Watts
What made Watts particularly difficult to stop was the combination of his mobility across states, his lack of a consistent method, and the limited forensic tools available to investigators in the 1970s — factors that allowed him to operate for nearly a decade before his arrest. The true scope of his crimes remains unresolved, with official confessions accounting for only a fraction of what law enforcement suspects, making the final count a subject of ongoing uncertainty.
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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.
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