Talk:Coral Eugene Watts

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Contents 1 Pink Floyd song 2 Wow 3 His name 4 Early Release 5 Background on Coral

[edit] Pink Floyd song

I first heard about Eugene Watts in the Pink Floyd song "Careful with tha axe, Eugene"...I was curious why a song would be named that. Later, a couple of searches on the net revealed the facts abiut Coral Eugene Watts, the serial killer who murdered several women brutally in his early life.

How could this Pink Floyd song be linked to Coral Watts when the song was written before 1969? It was not until the late 70's did authority's find out he was the "Sunday Morning Slasher?"

[edit] Wow

Yeah my neighbor is Joe Foy who witnessed this, kinda scary this is on here

[edit] His name

His original name was Carl, but he changed it to Coral to honor the Southern pronunciation of his name.

[edit] Early Release

The Cold Case Files episode says that the reason for Watts potential early release was due to him finding a loophole in the plea bargin regarding the bathtub of water being a lethal weapon. The programme said that once the "with intent to commit murder" part of the plea was quashed, only the burglary remained and that was why he was eligible for early release.

This is not dealt with on the wikipedia page. Would the page's creator like to comment before I look into this futher and possibly make ammendments ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tycobbuk (talk • contribs) 08:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC).

The Court TV Crime Library (http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/coral_watts/8.html) says approximately the same thing: "the judge [in the original trial] failed to inform Coral that, 'the bathtub water he attempted to drown Lori Lister in was construed as a lethal weapon.' Consequently, he was not required to serve his entire sentence.". I'd also like to see this information added, but I'm not up to doing it myself—while reading the Court TV Crime Library article, I discovered that I knew one of Watts's victims. If it's not acceptable to cite Cold Case Files or Court TV, I'm sure any Texas newspaper from the date of that court ruling would have the same information. —AmateurHistorian 05:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Background on Coral

I think it would be beneficial to find out some things about his childhood, as it could have influenced his killing sprees. Reading this, I would assume he had a pathological hate toward women, perhaps because of his mother, but all of the woman he attacked were white. Perhaps he attacked the "perfect woman" in order to punish his mother for what he thought she should have been. Of course I could be completely wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.176.145.56 (talk) 23:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)