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“disorderly prowling” outside a woman’s home in Southfield, a suburb fifteen miles northeast of Detroit. Someone spotted him and called the cops, who arrived and actually chased him down in a quick getaway attempt. Watts was arrested, but the charges were eventually dropped. He did, however, pay
    $25 in fines for driving tickets for careless driving and driving without headlights, which occurred during the chase. The arrest of Watts placed him squarely on the radar screen of the Detroit police. There had been approximately five attacks on young women in the Southfield area the year before, from June until October 1978. The attacker’s modus operandi seemed to be the same every time. He would break into the women’s homes and the women would wake up to a man standing over them with his hands either on their mouths, breasts, or geni-tals. No one victim could positively identify Watts as their attacker, but each victim’s description seemed to re—
    semble him closely.
    Watts had been honing his skills. Things would get much worse after the birth of his daughter and the demise of his marriage.

CHAPTER 5

    On October 8, 1979, a twenty-two-year-old white female, Peggy Pochmara, an employee at the Detroit Metro Air-port, was found strangled in the front yard of a neighbor of her boyfriend in Detroit. She had not been sexually assaulted, nor had she been robbed.
    On Halloween night forty-four-year-old former Detroit News food reporter Jeanne Clyne was killed after having been stabbed thirteen times outside her home in the up-scale neighborhood of Grosse Pointe Farms, northeast of Detroit. The time was approximately 6:45 P . M . Again the victim had not been sexually assaulted, nor had she been robbed. Halloween revelers passed by Clyne’s bloody dead body without a second glance as they thought she was a Halloween prank.
    Neighborhood residents described a well-built African American male as a potential suspect.
    On December 1, 1979, thirty-six-year-old Helen Mae Dutcher was stabbed twelve times outside of H&M Clean-ers, near East Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue, just north of Woodlawn Cemetery. Dutcher’s murder was even witnessed by a man named Joseph Foy, who gave a police

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    sketch artist a description of an African American male who looked strikingly similar to Coral Watts.
    Two other women’s bodies were discovered in late 1979. Dawn Jerome’s asphyxiated corpse was located less than eighteen miles away in nearby Taylor. On September 21, 1979, thirty-two-year-old Malak “Mimi” Haddad’s headless body was discovered in Allen Park. She had apparently gotten out of her car and was heading home. Her head has never been recovered.
    On March 10, 1980, Hazel Conniff, twenty-three, was strangled in Detroit. Conniff, who worked for the local telephone company, was found in the driveway of her boyfriend’s home tied to a chain-link fence with her own belt cinched around her petite neck. The eerie sight was punctuated by the position of her body, which was seated and facing forward. Conniff had not been raped or robbed.
    Three weeks later, at 4:15 A . M . on March 31, 1980, twenty-six-year-old Denise Dunmore’s strangled body was found in a Detroit parking lot. She had not been raped or robbed.
    Seventeen-year-old high-school student Shirley Small’s dead body was discovered at 6:54 A . M . on April 20, 1980, on a sidewalk seventy feet away from her family’s George-town Townhouse complex, between Packard Street and Page Avenue. She and her family lived on the southeast side of Ann Arbor, Michigan, approximately twenty miles from Inkster and forty-two miles west of Detroit.
    Small had always enjoyed spending her weekend nights at the local skating rink. Small and her boyfriend had been in a rocky on-again, off-again relationship. This particular night, it appeared to be off-again. The couple got into an argument while at the skating rink and the young lady left in a huff to go home. It was a