1. By: Jade Giantini Pd. 7

2. Childhood
 Was born in Texas, but spent time with his grandmother
when his parents got a divorce in 1955.
 He had Meningitis and fevers as a child. Coral developed
learning disabilities.
 He enjoyed hunting and skinning rabbits.
 As a child, Coral would have dreams about women. He
would spend most of the night trying to fight the dreams or
so called “evil spirits.” In his dreams, he would end up killing
the women. One day when he was delivering a paper, he
decided to act out on one of his dreams. He was only 15 at
the time.

3. Adult life
 Coral was arrested as a teen for knocking on an apartment door of
a woman, and he attacked her when she opened the door. When
the police arrested him, he told them that “He just felt like beating
someone up."
 He was institutionalized in a Detroit hospital. After three months, he
was evaluated and was put on an outpatient program. On his final
review his doctor, Dr. Ainsworth, said “This patient is a paranoid
young man who is struggling for control of strong homicidal
impulses. His behavior controls are faulty, and there is a high
potential for violent acting out. This individual is considered
dangerous."
 Coral finished high school after he was released from the hospital.
He was accepted to Lane College on a football scholarship, but he
could not finish his first year due to injuries.
 Coral had one child with his girlfriend, Delores, but they never
married.

4. Motives
 Coral Watts is categorized as a
thrill killer. A thrill killer is when
the killer loves the thrill or
experience of killing an
individual.
 In some cases he would stalk
his victims. In a thrill killer, it
gives them an adrenaline rush. A
thrill killer becomes addicted to
the adrenaline rush.

5. Methods and Rituals
 He used methods of
slashing, stabbing,
hanging, drowning,
asphyxiating, and
strangling his victims.
 Coral would follow his
victims before he
would attack them.

6. Profile and Characteristics
of Victims
 Most of his victims
were Caucasian
women with dark hair.
 His victims were
normally between 17-
30 years old.

7. Getting Caught
 The investigators worked on this
case for many years. After a long
search an ex-girlfriend, Valeria, told
investigators that Coral had
nightmares, was messy, and would
just act very strange.
 Investigators pulled Coral over for
having an expired license and a
suspended license. They searched
his car and found a dictionary that
belonged to Rebecca Huff, a victim
that Coral murdered. It was that clue
that linked Coral to the murders.

8. Charges and Sentencing
 Coral pled guilty to one count of burglary
with intent to kill. Coral bargained to
receive 60 years in a penitentiary.
 Before leaving for prison, Coral told an
investigator that if he ever got out he
would kill again.
 Coral ended up receiving less than 2
years for each murder.
 After serving his years in prison, he was
put on parole until he died in 2006.

9. Difficult to Spot
 Serial killers are normally hard to spot.
They are well dressed, polite people.
They blend in with society. Serial killers
want to gain your trust before they
attack.
 They know how to prowl without being
seen, but they normally prowl on the
streets, freeways, malls, and sometimes
even lurk in churches.

10. Four types of Serial Killers
Crime Scenes
 Organized Crime Scenes
1. Planned offense
2. Transports body
3. Body hidden
4. Controlled conversation
5. Demands submissive victim
6. Missing weapon or evidence
7. Victim is a targeted stranger
8. Personalizes victim
9. Crime scene reflects control
10. Restraints used
11. Aggressive acts done before death
 Mixed Crime Scene
Shows characteristics from both organized and
disorganized crime scenes, could possibly be two
offenders, and the scene could possible be staged by
the offender.

11. Four types of Serial Killers
Crime Scenes
 Disorganized Crime Scenes
1. Body left at death scene
2. Spontaneous offense
3. Evidence or weapon present at scene
4. Victim or location known
5. Body left in view
6. Depersonalizes victim
7. Sexual acts after death
8. Minimal conversation
9. Minimal use of restraints
10. Crime scene sloppy
11. Sudden violence to victim
 Atypical Crime Scene
The crime scene cannot be classified by what
the police is given. The police will look at
previous cases to see if anything matches up.
Decomposed remains goes under this crime
scene.

12. What I Learned
 I learned that you never know who can
be a serial killer. At times, they can be
“normal” and do every day things, like
attend college. I never realized that
many serial killers have something
wrong with them. It never really occurred
to me that they killed so many people
because we rarely here about it around
this area.

13. Websites Used
 http://murdervictims.com/watts.htm
 http://www.unexplainable.net/info-
theories/common-motives-of-a-serial-killer-ii.php
 http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/pre
dators/coral_watts/index.html
 http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/watts.htm
 http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/not
orious/tick/1b.htm
 http://serialkillr.tripod.com/SerialKillersExposed/cri
mescenes.html