By David Lohr
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| Coral Eugene Watts |
August 3, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
KALAMAZOO, MI — A jury has convicted serial killer Coral Eugene Watts, 53, in the 1974 stabbing death of Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele, 19. The conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole. Watts received his first life sentence in November 2004 for the murder of Helen Dutcher, 36. Some investigators believe he could be responsible for at least 80 unsolved murders. Of the people present at Watts' sentencing was Joseph Foy, a man who witnessed Watts murder Dutcher in 1979. In the courtroom, Joseph and Watts involved in a verbal exchange. "At one point he mouthed 'I'm going to kill you,'" Joseph wrote in a recent post to In Cold Blog. "And I returned with 'Bring it on Watts, you piece of fu—ing shit. F—k you!!'" Kalamazoo County Circuit Court Judge Gary C. Giguere Jr. will formally sentence Watts on Sept. 10.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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| Keith Hunter Jesperson |
SAN JOSE, CA— Last summer, prosecutors charged Keith Hunter Jesperson, AKA the "Happy Face Killer," with the May 1993 murder of a Jane Doe. Last week, Jesperson was brought to Santa Clara County from Oregon, where he was already serving two consecutive life terms for other killings. Jesperson's hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court was brief. Jesperson had already agreed to cooperate in exchange for a life sentence, rather than the death penalty. According to his own account, Jesperson met Jane Doe at a truckers' rest stop in Corning. Jesperson murdered her after they had sex. He dumped her body on Highway 152. Her decomposed remains were found one month later. After entering a plea of guilty, Jesperson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by Judge Tom Hastings. Jesperson will be brought back to Oregon this week to continue serving his life sentences there.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
COLORADO — In 1995, Robert Charles Browne was sentenced to life in prison for the 1991 kidnapping and killing of 13-year-old Heather Dawn Church. In 2006, Browne was indicted for two other murders, for which he also received life sentences. Since that time, investigators have made public the confessions that Browne made to law enforcement, laying claim to another 49 homicides in nine states and one in South Korea. Despite his claims, police now believe that Brown, 54, may have fabricated some of the confessions. Officials in four states have since ruled him out as a suspect in murders there.
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