Freedom awaits serial killer who vowed to kill again
Scheduled for release in four years, victims' relatives fight to keep Inkster native locked up

By Joel Kurth / The Detroit News

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Watts
Crime-victim activists have asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry to appoint a task force to look into ways to keep Coral Eugene Watts in prison beyond his scheduled release date in May 2006.
A decision is expected before fall.

Known victims
Former Inkster resident Coral Eugene Watts has confessed to killing 13 women and is a suspect in the deaths of at least 26 others, including six in Michigan and two in Windsor. Here's a list of Watts' known victims.

Clyne
Jeanne Clyne, 35, a Detroit News reporter stabbed to death at least 11 times on Kercheval between Lothrop and Merriweather in Grosse Pointe Farms on Oct. 31, 1979.
Linda Tilley, 22, drowned in swimming pool in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 5, 1981.
Elizabeth Montgomery, 25, stabbed as she walked her dog in Houston on Sept. 12, 1981.

Wolf
Later that day, Susan Wolf, 21, a recent transplant from Bay City, was stabbed in her apartment in Houston.
Phyllis Tamm, 27, was hanged from a tree in Houston on Jan. 4, 1982.
Margaret Fossi, 25, was found dead in the trunk of her car in Houston on Jan. 17, 1982.
Elena Semander, 20, was found in a trash bin in Houston on Feb. 17, 1982.
Emily LaQua, 14, was strangled and stuffed into a culvert in Brookshire, Texas, on March 20, 1982.
Edith Ledet, 34, was stabbed to death in Galveston on March 27, 1982.
Yolanda Gracin, 21, was stabbed to death in Houston on April 15, 1982.
Carrie Jefferson, 32, was strangled and stabbed in Houston on April 16, 1982.
Suzanne Searles, 25, was strangled and drowned in a flower pot in Houston on April 21, 1982.
Michelle Maday, 20, was choked to death outside her apartment in Houston on May 23, 1982.
Later that day, Watts was arrested when he broke into the Houston apartment of Lori Lister and Melinda Aguilar and attacked the two.


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INKSTER -- Coral Eugene Watts didn't miss a bite of his jelly doughnut as he told detectives how he stalked a Grosse Pointe Farms woman, then stabbed her 11 times on one of the suburb's busiest streets.
The Inkster native's multistate killing spree ended in 1982. Sitting in a Texas jail, an immunity deal in hand, Watts nonchalantly described to Michigan and Texas authorities how he took the lives of 13 women since 1979.
He was a suspect in another 26 deaths, including six in Michigan and two in Windsor. Before he left for prison, he told a Texas judge: "You know, if they ever let me out, I'll kill again."
Watts is scheduled to get the chance in 2006, when he's set to become the nation's first serial killer to be freed.
The man known as the Sunday Morning Slasher was imprisoned for burglary and given immunity for the murders to which he confessed. He will be 52 in 2006.
The prospect of his release has victims' relatives furious, southeast Michigan authorities combing old cases for fresh evidence to bring new charges against him and crime-victim advocates nationwide rallying for new laws to keep the son of a former Detroit teacher in jail.
"This has been on my mind for 22 years," said Michael Clyne, 60, of Grosse Pointe Farms, whose wife, Detroit News reporter Jeanne Clyne, was killed by Watts on Halloween 1979. "He's a sick, perverse man who shouldn't be roaming the streets preying on women."
Andy Kahan, a deputy mayor in Houston, calls Watts' case the "Murphy's law of justice."
Watts, sentenced to 60 years in the controversial plea deal, is scheduled to serve only 24 years because of credits for good behavior.
Watts doesn't need the help of a parole board because Texas simply can't keep him longer. To the system, he's a burglar, not a murderer and will be released because he qualifies for a mandatory early-release program that knocks off three days from his sentence for each day served.
Lacking evidence, Texas and Wayne County prosecutors cut a deal that let Watts plead guilty in 1982 to breaking into a Houston woman's apartment and trying to drown her.
By some accounts, Watts killed as many as 60 women. But at the time, the sentence seemed like it was enough, said Robert K. Ferber, Grosse Pointe Farms' public safety director.
"Everyone thought he'd be in jail for the rest of his life," Ferber said.
"We knew it was him (who killed Clyne), but we had no evidence. None," he said. "He was so calculated and cold-blooded, he left us nothing. No murder weapon. No prints. No witnesses. He never even touched her. He stabbed her standing up."

He targeted 'evil eyes'
Watts got the nickname Sunday Morning Slasher after being linked to a series of murders on Sundays in Ann Arbor, but he apparently was indiscriminate with the time of his crimes, the means of death and the demographics of his victims.
When he confessed to Texas and Grosse Pointe Farms detectives, Watts described how he killed during all hours of the day, equally preferred stabbing, strangling and drowning and stalked his victims regardless of race, economic status or geography.
The only link: Watts wanted to remove their "evil eyes." As he rattled off details about the slayings that only the killer could have known, Watts repeated a similar phrase: "She had evil eyes. ... I had to release the spirit."
"This guy is the reason retired policemen still carry guns," said George Van Tiem, a retired Grosse Pointe Farms detective who investigated the Clyne murder.
Another detective, who is now in a nursing home, interviewed Watts in Texas. The officer, Earl Field, told Ferber that Watts "never missed a swallow" of his doughnut as he recalled stabbing Clyne as she walked along Kercheval, one of Grosse Pointe Farms' busiest streets.
Michael Clyne was initially a suspect in his 44-year-old wife's death. He said Watts' impending release "brings back her totally senseless death," but he isn't second-guessing the plea deal that could allow Watts to again walk free.
"I can't hide or deny (the pain) because it doesn't deal with the issue," said Clyne, a project manager for Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Michigan who still lives in Grosse Pointe Farms.
Unless new charges are brought or Texas lawmakers somehow can craft constitutionally viable legislation to keep a man in prison past his release date, Watts will walk in May 2006. And those who've watched the case closely are convinced that he will kill again.
"Coral Watts is a diabolical killing machine," said Kahan, Houston's deputy mayor who is leading the movement to keep Watts behind bars.
"This is no longer a Texas issue. He will take off from Texas the minute he is released and he will resume his carnage."

Police hot on trail
Watts, a former Golden Gloves boxer known as a "Mama's boy," left Michigan for Houston in April 1981 with the police hot on his trail.
Between October 1979 and November 1980, 14 women were attacked and killed from Ann Arbor to Windsor, back to Harper Woods and down to Toledo.
Police thought Watts was their man. They placed tracking devices on his car. They followed him. Ann Arbor police almost caught a break in January 1980 when a traffic stop found a notebook in Watts' car containing the faint outline of the phrase "REBECCA IS A LOVER." Police questioned him but didn't have enough evidence to charge him.
Three months earlier, University of Michigan student, 20-year-old Rebecca Huff, had been found stabbed outside her home. She was the third young woman killed in similar circumstances in six months in Ann Arbor.
When Watts left for Texas, Michigan authorities alerted Houston police and sent them a thick file on Watts. He told investigators he had killed at least 12 more women before he was caught in May 1982 trying to drown a woman in her apartment.
The Detroit News was unable to contact Watts' relatives.
Unlike other serial killers known for ego or inflating the number of their victims, Watts has never spoken publicly about his crimes, refusing all requests for interviews and keeping in sporadic contact with his attorneys.
His last public statement came in 2001 when he wrote Kahan to lend his support for a campaign to stop Web sites from auctioning memorabilia from serial killers.
The letter with crude spellings begins lucidly, then sinks into a diatribe against government and the media.
"The state. They can not be trusted. They mix truth with falsehood. They lie, deceive, mislead and backstab. Some of you are more cruel and vicious that the criminals you hold in prison. And some of you belong in prison yourselves."

Imprisoned 20 years
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Watts' imprisonment, and the milestone has spurred furious activity to keep him in prison.
Relatives of victims rallied in Houston earlier this month. They're circulating petitions against Watts, pressuring state lawmakers to draft laws targeting Watts and asking Gov. Rick Perry to appoint a task force of the nation's brightest minds to see what can be done.
Police in Ann Arbor have reopened the cases of the three unsolved murders, hoping to find DNA evidence that may link them to Watts, said Sgt. Michael Logghe. Wayne County Prosecutor Michael Duggan's office has begun reviewing cases that may involve Watts.
"We're going to go after him in every case possible here in Michigan," said Tom Furtaw, an assistant prosecutor in the homicide unit.
Clyne said he hopes that police can uncover DNA or other evidence that somehow could bring new charges against Watts.
Kahan said "everything that could have gone wrong did with this case." He likened Watts to a force of nature whose sole purpose is to kill.
"We have a storm that we know is coming," Kahan said. "It's brewing in the sky, the sea, the ground.
"It's going to wreak havoc on innocent women and the question we have to ask ourselves is if we're going to allow the storm to land or prevent it from wrecking people's lives."
The Texas law that allows inmates to accumulate "good time" credits was passed in 1977 -- five years before Watts' incarceration -- then reformed in 1987 to make it harder for inmates to get out early before it was finally abolished in 1995.
It can't be applied retroactively to inmates, but if Watts was convicted five years earlier or later, he would be in prison for his full 60-year sentence.
Michigan allowed inmates credit for good behavior up to seven days for every month they served until lawmakers outlawed early release in 1998.
The good-time policy let criminals reduce their sentences by as much as a quarter, said Russ Marlan, spokesman for the Department of Corrections.
Texas legislators are eyeing laws similar to one in Kansas that allows officials to imprison pedophiles after they've completed their sentence if it can be proved that they still pose risks. Civil libertarians have decried the law as blatantly unconstitutional.
Keri Whitlow isn't concerned about legal niceties. Watts admitted he stabbed her 21-year-old roommate, Susan Wolf, to death Sept. 12, 1981, as she carried groceries from her car in Houston.
The Bay City natives had moved from Ypsilanti just months earlier.
"She didn't even have a chance to talk to Watts before he killed her," Whitlow said.
"I guarantee if he talked to her, he would not have thought she was evil. She never met a stranger. She could have just as easily made friends with a bum on the street as a CEO. She was so nonjudgmental, it was weird she'd be killed by a person who judged her."

Can something like this really happen? I don't know what this guy has against women, but my God!

He seems to be the poster child for evil. It's scary that he may be walking the streets again.

He sounds like he is mentally ill. I certainly hope they don't really let him out and send him back here!

Isadora-I know! I am all for prisoners rights, but I am for victims rights too. And, since all of his victims can't speak for themselves, I hope their families can. If this guy gets out, and kills again, the DOC is probably going to have a huge lawsuit on their hands. He has admitted what he will do if he is released. And, even though that was 20 years ago, I really don't believe that being in prison for ANY amount of time is going to rehabilitate this guy. He should never get out.

One thing that concerns me is that if he is released, then he will be used as an example of why early release or resentencing is a bad idea. Those who don't believe in rehabilitation, but rather "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" will take this one bad injustice and run with it, that all convicts will be lumped into a single category with this guy. He is the exception not the norm. Does the rest of the world realize this?

Danielle, I agree. People are going to hear about this one case, and all of a sudden, all the guys in prison are THIS guy. Know what I mean? And, since most criminals do not go out and kill 60 women, and this really is such a shocking case, I would think the DOC would do whatever they can to keep him in. I wonder if the DOC is kind of ticked that this story has made some front pages. I mean, the prison system is "tough", made of "steel". (especially in Texas!) The fact that they have to release this guy is probably eating them up! I am surprised that they didn't manage to keep him in somehow, just to keep the story from reaching the public! But, yea, for the people that think rehabilitating prisoners just can't happen, this story is only going to prove their "theories". I don't know. This is a bad situation all around.

Imagining myself in a Devil's Advocate role here...

Two things spring instantly to mind, here...

1) I hope this inmate's mother or brother DOES NOT come to this site, expecting support as a family member of an inmate. Imagine how they'd feel reading this thread. Just how far do we offer support? Do we have a class of inmate and/or their family who is NOT welcome here?

2) I wonder if we aren't falling into a trap here that the media is fond of setting.

We are judging a CRIME committed by a man, instead of looking at the MAN who committed the crime.

Perhaps this guy should be released and subsequently committed to a psycho ward instead, and given treatment?

Perhaps at age 52, he is in such ill health he won't be able to do this again.

Perhaps his "promise" to kill again was just grandstanding and posturing when he was first arrested/convicted.

Perhaps societal fear being whipped into a frenzy by media articles such as this is what is moving people to demand more lockup time for this person.
Perhaps that is irresponsible journalism. Perhaps it even qualifies as a witch-hunt.

Perhaps we need to analyze if we are making our responses out of media frenzy terror, and based on who this man was 25 years ago. Or should we look at the situation as it exists TODAY. It may well be that he is nuts, and more dangerous than ever, but what people are using as the rationale is who he was 25 years ago, not what he is saying or doing TODAY!

Lastly, perhaps it is ME who is nuts.

Menolly

I would never not welcome an inmate's family here - but on the other hand, I do not have to condone or like what the inmate has done. What the prisoner has done has no bearing on his family - who they are or what they are about. He was an adult when he committed these crimes. It is not my place to judge anybody but there are times when the justice system fail and I believe this is one of those times. I firmly believe we are not the worst things we have ever done in our lives but I also believe we pay consequences for our actions.

When a man has confessed to taking at least 13 lives, not in self-defense, not wrongly convicted, not for any reason other than to simply kill those women, then I do have a problem with that person roaming free once again.

If not in this case, then in what case is it reasonable to serve life without parole?

I apologize if I sound a little emotional. The man who killed my uncle - the man who I loved dearly, another father to me - has yet another hearing tomorrow. Basically the DA wants to send him back to prison on parole violations alone and let him finish out his life sentence on another murder conviction from the 70's. My uncle was an ex-con and I wonder if they would be so willing to let it drop if he'd been a different person in society's eyes, not the wonderful man I knew.

Wow...alot of 'food for thought' here in this thread...Menolly, sweetie I hear ya on what your saying. I would hope that if his family member came here though, that if we had enough courage and they were truthful enough to admit the truth of his past killings, that they too would seek the support to keep him confined. I know the media can write their own 'story', but if this is true and he admitted and was not just accussed of killing these women...he NEEDS to be confined.

I don't want to judge people, I really really don't. In this case I'm just going on what HE said and confessed to. If he killed all these woman and states he will kill again, this is where I am for CIVIL CONFINEMENT laws, in so much they will protect us, the community.

Sad situation all away around. I'm am so sure though that Texas will come up with something to keep him locked up, they have almost 4 years to pass a legislative law on civil commitment. Texas alread has laws on the book to commit a sexual offender beyond their sentence, I can't believe they won't do something similar here...
Just my thoughts...

I agree. Having a loved one in prison, it is hard to say that I think this guy should be locked up forever. I mean, what if someone thought that about my boyfriend? But, the crimes that this man committed, and I do believe the list to be true, what are prisons for if not for someone like this? I think, to a point, what this man is doing today is not an issue. What he did 25 years ago is what scares me. This isn't someone who just did something stupid, or someone that got really angry and killed somebody. This is someone that deliberately went out and killed many many women. On purpose, in broad day light, without thinking twice. I am all for rehabilitation, but in a crime of this magnitude, I am for these victimes families. I can't imagine being in their shoes when this guy walks out free.

I guess because the public, media and the judicial system does not want to take the time to look at each individual case. We have let the Attorney General's Judges, Parole Boards have too much power. The system was designed to be judge by your peers (jury). Then you were to be reviewed by your peers again (parole board) but it has evolved into being a political position instead of community liason involvement. 98% of people can change through rewiewing ones decision in life and seeing there are other choices that could have been taken. But there are some people that have no conscience. And these are the ones that have the "world" running to make the majority be accountable. Hope I made my point.

Well this one is certainly a challenge. I have to ask myself--where do I draw the line. Those of us who now share in this experience--either being incarcerated or loving someone who is incarcerated --face this dilemna. I feel so differenty now--I am different. My view has changed and I cannot go back.

I think it can be viewed at a very basic level--are people intrinsically good or bad. I believed in the theory that all people are essentially born good (Rousseau) verses born bad (Locke). To some degree--my belief has not changed--however--the world we are born into--the kind of family we have, the friends we make and life experiences do shape who we become. I would like to think that in the right environment--one that is positive and nuturing--that we all have the opportunity to be good people--somewhat utopian thinking here. Yet--some very good people do make some very bad choices. I ask myself why? My husband shed some interesting light on this one--to me at least. He believes that in order to make good choices, one must be physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy. My husband has discovered that even though he was raised in a wonderful and positive environment--he made a poor choice as a result of not being physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy. He is paying for that poor choice. Does this make him a bad person--no. Have others been down this road--yes. Is it possible that someone is bad---not capable of good? I would like to think--no, yet I think it is possible--yet rare. Again--I return to the environment perspective. This is where we as a society need to evaluate. Are we providing the right environment? We incarcerate people because they "committed a crime"--according to the laws of our society. But--then what? What do we do? Rehabilitate? I was naive at one time--I thought "we" sought to rehabilitate "criminals" This is not happening. In order to effectively rehabilitate--we must first understand why something occurred. Rehabilitation is not generic--there is no simple formula. As a society we are more comfortable knowing we "locked them up". Yet--many will one day return. We make no real provisions for this. It reminds me of when Lincoln freed the slaves--they were free--but free to go where and do what. I feel he only did half the job. The system does half the job too. The system does not seek to keep the incarcerated tied to the community and their family--I see this every week. They do more to sever the bonds. They do not attempt to qualify the inmates--that would be too much work. Instead--they treat them like animals--and guess what--some begin to act accordingly. We lose people this way.

Should someone not be returned to society--are there instances where an individual is not capable of living in a "civilized society" Perhaps--who decides? It is not an easy decision and I would find it a challenge--would I want to be wrong--no--a life is high price to pay. Crime has many victims--I now know this. I am one of the "indirect victims". Until we as a society begin to ask the right questions and seek true understanding--we will continue to focus on punishment. We build more prisons than youth centers. It's easier to punish after the fact than to work on prevention.

Just my thoughts...

Molly

interesting thread...Molly, I agree with many of your thoughts with one exception-I do not believe anyone is "born bad"--I do believe however that there are some people who cannot safely live in our society- who decides and what is the "criteria" to determine this is a difficult question- I believe 100% in rehabilitation-but I do believe that there are some people who are unable to repond to rehabilitation-for any number of reasons-Rational choice models of deviance theories just don't cut it in my book for these people-Some people need to be locked up in my opinion-where they are put and how they are treated while there is the important part of it to me--just my thoughts
and you are absolutely right --when we are building more prisons than schools, there is a big,big problem

>>>some people who are unable to repond to rehabilitation<<<

For what ever reason, and I agree there are many, it's still a matter of choice with very few exceptions (mentally handicaped). Those that don't give a DAM about anybody besides "self", can still live in a Society and not do any harm! Anti-social behavor doesn't make a person a criminal. It's the acting out, against Society and it's laws that does.

I agree B-Ray that antisocial people can live in our society without doing any harm-Antisocial and other personality disordered people are everywhere- in abundance
But the world of mental illness is very vast and there are some individuals that need to be away from society--that will never be safe to be in it--I am an advocate for least restrictive environment for all-but for some the clinically indicated least restrictive environment is in a locked facility.

here's the one thing that bothers me most about this case....this man's time is up, yet government officials are trying to come up with ways to keep him in prison. that sets a scary precedent to me. we can't randomly select inmates and decide they are "too dangerous" to be let out and then bend sentencing statues and everything else to keep them locked up. i agree this man sounds like he has some issues, but he has served his time according to the sentencing structure that was in place at the time of his conviction. i sure as hell wouldn't want someone to come along and change the rules of the game on MY loved ones.

this is probably an unpopular statement, but it's just...

...my 2 cents

ac

CHILDREN:

REMEMBER WHERE THIS COMES FROM " THE MEDIA" THE PEOPLE WHO EXPLOIT ALL VIOLENT CRIMES AND ADD AND ADD AND ADD TO THE VERSION OF THE STORY.

NUMBER 1 - WHAT WAS THIS GUY CONVICTED OF? NUMBER 2- HOW MANY YEARS DID HE GET? NUMBER 3- NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CHANGE A SENTENCE AFTER THE FACT. IF HE GETS OUT THEN HE MUST BE REHABILITATED, RIGHT?

YES, YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT A STORY LIKE THIS AFFECTING EVERY INMATE WHO HAS COMMITTED A VIOLENT CRIME OF ANYKIND. THAT IS WHY THE MEDIA DOES IT..

DONNA

I dunno. Even if the media exagerated the truth a little, his crimes are evil. I don't want to see the guy killed, but I don't want to see him on my streets either. I mean, even if he is sorry, look at all the lives he has changed forever? Look at all the families that he has destroyed? I don't want to see laws being changed for each individual prisoner, but if we are going to let this guy go free, why is anyone locked up? There has to be consequences for actions taken. And it's not like this guy killed one person in a crime of passion, or by accident, and has shown remorse. This guy purposely went out and killed alot of women, and admitted it. He is not your typical "violent offender". I don't want to see guys who are locked up for murder charges get anymore time because of this guy. I have a friend who went out and purposely shot someone and killed them. He is looking at 25 to life. I know that he is sorry, and that he is not a "killer" at heart. He just made a very bad mistake. This guy didn't just make a mistake and kill one woman, he killed lots, and it doesn't appear that he is all that sorry either. If this story that was ran in the Detroit Free Press is not true, and they made it up, I will retract every thing I have said. But, I can't imagine that they are THAT far off the truth. It is my opinion (and that's all it is, my opinion) but anyone that has killed as many people as this guy "supposedly" has, should not get out. He might be rehabilitated, but, where does rehabilitation end and punishment begin? Ok, so he's sorry, but my god, look how many lives he destroyed? Just my opinion. :)

In 1982 Mr. Watts man entered into a plea agreement for a 60 year sentence for Burglary with Intent To Commit Murder, which everyone at the time knew probably meant he would not be getting out of prison until 2042. A "deadly weapon" finding attached to Mr. Watts' sentence – suggesting he had filled a bathtub with the intent to drown during a May 1982 burglary – was overturned after an appeals court determined Mr. Watts had not been properly notified that it was part of his plea deal. The finding would have required him to serve a majority of his sentence behind bars. This man received immunity for and confessed to killing 13 women and it is suspected that he is responsible for many more. It's easy to blame the media for embellishment and exaggeration in some cases but the facts of this case are irrefutable. Is rehabilitation an option in every case? It's easy for someone on the outside looking in to make a blanket statement that anyone that has done his time is rehabilitated unfortunately this is not the case. I've been there and I know that the public is better served in some cases by not letting a person out. 60 years is 60 years, the only entity that changed the sentence in this case is the appeals court. You might not agree with everything I say but without a doubt I have a right to that opinion and so does everyone else. I just don't want another Kenneth McDuff on our hands, the place I call home is the community he terrorized.

>>Is rehabilitation an option in every case? It's easy for someone on the outside looking in to make a blanket statement that anyone that has done his time is rehabilitated unfortunately this is not the case. I've been there and I know that the public is better served in some cases by not letting a person out.<<


Although I think it applies to a small percentage of inmates,I agree completely with this statement Ralph. However, it looks like a mistake was made when the plea bargain was offered (unfortunately) and we cannot legally keep this man in prison. BUT I think he should be evaluated by a psychiatrist as he may possibly need to be in a locked psychiatric facility.

It is just so unbelievable to me that this guy is going to walk, and there are other guys doing more time for much lesser crimes. And, in all reality, this guy scares me. He was also in my area and did some horrible things to unsuspecting women. I definitely think this man is sick. I don't believe, in a case like this, that prison is rehabilitating this man. As harsh as it sounds, even if he did get "rehabilitated", I don't think that he deserves to be free with the rest of us. Not with the crimes that he committed. But, no, Texas can not legally keep him, because that is against the law. So, what happens next? Does he walk free? Does he go to a psychiatric hospital? If he walks free, what happens if he kills again? What if he goes free and doesn't kill again. Is that right for the families of these victims? This is such an insane situation, that it is mind boggling. I myself feel that there are some people that don't deserve to have the freedoms that we have, and this is one of those people. I am a very easy going, light hearted person. I believe that people are ultimately good at heart. But, with this guy, I don't really believe that. I don't think he is the devil incarnate, but I do believe that he is a very sick man that should be someplace where he can't hurt anyone again.

I agree w/what your saying Aprilcat....about being afraid of the precedent that could be set. That is a disturbing concept...but equally disturbing is that this man is beyond rehabilitation. I have to also agree with Jeni and Ralph in that respect. I would hate to see this man on the streets. At the least I think that he needs to be institutionalized for life. People who don't even kill people upon people upon people....are instituationalized for life because they MAY be a danger to himself or others. I think this man has definitely proven himself to be MORE than a risk.