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in God. He has never heard any voices. No delusions. He doesn’t believe in ESP [extrasensory perception]. No suspiciousness. Nobody is against him. No gross psychotic symptoms noticed and all mental facilities are intact.”
    Katilius was aware of Watts’s visits to the Lafayette Mental Clinic before the attacks. He was also aware that Watts believed he may have killed one or two of his victims. Katilius concluded that Watts suffered from antisocial personality disorder. “[Watts] is impulsive and unable to learn from previous experience. He blames others for his crim-inal acts.”
    On the contrary, Watts was learning plenty from his previous experiences.
    A few days later, on January 8, 1975, Watts attempted to kill himself. At least, that is what he wanted the doctors to believe. He grabbed a small cord from a laundry bag and hung himself. He was discovered by a nurse and cut down. The feeble attempt did not even render him unconscious. Watts was eventually released from the Kalamazoo Mental Hospital and received gainful employ-ment sweeping up a local church.

    By late May 1975, the Gloria Steele murder still had not been solved. Captain R. J. Slater, of the Western Michigan University Campus Police, however, believed he knew exactly who killed Steele. He wrote, “As of 5/21/75 this case has been investigated to the point that this department has knowledge that one ‘Watts, Coral E.,’ a black male person, is the person that in fact killed Steele. This, however, cannot be proven with any type of physical evidence at this time.”

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    Watts would make another visit to a mental hospital for another examination. This time it was leading up to his trial for the assault and battery charges against Lenore Knizacky and Diane Williams. In June 1975, Watts was admitted to the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was examined by Dr. Elissa Benedek, who noted that Watts usually “feels good” after he beat up women. Dr. Benedek, like Dr. Katilius before her, did not believe Watts suffered from any form of mental ill-ness. She confidently stated that he was competent to stand trial. She also noted that “this patient is quite clearly dangerous and his potential for recidivistic behavior is great.” In other words, it was more than likely that Watts would continue to attack women if set free.
    Watts spoke with various staff members during his stay at the center. He even sought out help, but not for his mental state. Rather, he sought legal advice. He wanted to know what he needed to do to assure that he would not go to prison.
    Dr. Benedek asked Watts if it bothered him that he attacked women.
    “No,” he replied. “Getting caught bothers me.” “Aren’t you concerned about what you did to these
    women?” “No.”

    Watts’s trial for the assault and battery of Knizacky and Williams took place on December 19, 1975. He pleaded “no contest” to the two attacks and received a one-year jail sentence in the county jail.
    He was not charged with the murder of Gloria Steele.

CHAPTER 4

    Watts was released from the Kalamazoo County Jail on August 24, 1976. He returned to Inkster, where he moved in with his mother and stepfather. He seemingly stayed out of trouble for the next few years. Watts hooked up with a childhood friend, high-school student Deloris Howard, and got her pregnant. Their relationship was rather subdued, according to Howard’s brother and friend of Watts, Fred Braggs.
    “From what she has told me, I wouldn’t call him a Casanova. He wasn’t no romantic,” Braggs recalled, but Watts treated Howard well.
    The couple did share enough affection to create a daughter, Nakisha Watts, who was born on February 3, 1979. Coral and Deloris had a seemingly healthy relationship, but, in reality, Watts turned into a deadbeat dad. He would not even claim Nakisha as his own flesh and blood; he took off.
    Later that year, Deloris filed a claim in Wayne County Circuit Court