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against Watts and requested that he pay her
    $70 a week for child support. On January 25, 1980, Judge Horace Gilmore ruled that Watts was indeed the

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    girl’s father and that he must make restitution of $40 a week.
    Howard claimed that she would not have filed a claim against her lover if he had not dropped a bombshell on her. She found out by reading the local paper that Coral had run off and got married to another woman.
    Before Nakisha was born, Watts had met at a dis-cotheque a young black woman by the name of Valeria Goodwill. This was the post– Saturday Night Fever era. Watts and Goodwill dated and were married on August 17, 1979. The happy couple moved in together into his house on the 2200 block of Parker Street in Detroit.
    Apparently, Coral’s mother was not a fan of Valeria.
    Valeria was not a big fan of Coral, once she got to know him.
    “One thing that bothered me,” Valeria stated in an interview with Michigan police, “he would go to sleep at night and either have nightmares or something. I don’t know what it was, but he would wake up suddenly and start fighting in his sleep . . . with his fists or something, like he was fighting somebody in his sleep.
    “He wouldn’t say anything,” Valeria continued. “Sometimes he would fall out of the bed. One night I woke up and he was on the floor.
    “He was still asleep. One night I woke up and he was kneeling outside the bed with his arms up on the bed and him kneeling down on the floor. I’ve seen him fall asleep on the couch and fall off the couch asleep and get back up on the couch and never wake up.”
    Valeria continued the bizarre reminiscence. “I’d have to be very careful waking him up. If I would touch him waking up, he would almost jump out of the bed. I had to get out of the way.

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    “He said he was nervous over his job, but I knew there was something the matter.”
    Goodwill had no idea what was truly the matter with her husband.
    Soon after their marriage, Goodwill reported that Watts’s behavior became erratic and unpredictable. First, he lost his mechanic job at a trucking company due to sloppy work. Instead of going out and looking for a new job, Watts would stay home and become fidgety and bored. His compulsive behavior began to surface when he would constantly rearrange the furniture. His once impec-cably neat habits dropped by the wayside. He acted slovenly and apathetic. It started out normally enough for a man in his early twenties—leaving clothes on the floor. It escalated to food wrappers and napkins left on the floor, to actual garbage dumped on the carpet. He refused to clean up after himself. His behavior became more bizarre each day. He took to chopping up the house-plants with a kitchen knife. He would slice up candle-sticks and then melt the pieces onto the kitchen table.
    According to Goodwill, Watts began to display even more unusual behavior. Out of the blue he claimed he no longer believed in God. He got upset with her when she told him she wanted to put up a Christmas tree in their house. He also forbade her from wearing any beauty prod-ucts, such as makeup or wigs. He even flushed one of her wigs down the toilet in a bout of frustration.
    Goodwill did not know what to make of her newlywed spouse. She became furious, however, when he started leaving the house at night without a word as to where he was going. He would often venture out without telling her anything, be gone for several hours at a time, and then return, often in a state of disarray. Sometimes his clothes would be rumpled or even torn.

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    Goodwill did notice that most of her husband’s late-night jaunts took place after they had sex. After an intimate encounter with her husband, he would get up and walk out of the house.
    “He would just get in the car and go. He’d be gone [for] hours and hours,” she recalled.
    On one of Watts’s midnight excursions, on October 17, 1979, he was arrested for