Carl Eugene Watts was an especially prolific American serial killer known as the Sunday morning slasher.

He may have been the most prolific serial killer in US history, and he nearly became the only confirmed serial killer in US history to be released from prison.

released by officials who knew he was a serial killer, officials who did not want to release him,

knew he was incredibly dangerous and would kill again, but had no choice but to release him.

One of the craziest loopholes ever, just about, like so close, it came to putting the psycho back on the streets.

Some women, this killing machine, would have certainly brutally murdered very narrowly dodged a bullet.

Watts was an opportunistic killer who assaulted and murdered many women. Some speculate over a hundred during an

eight-year reign of terror between 1974 and 1982 when he lived in both Michigan and

Texas. No one really understands how Carl chose his victims, almost exclusively

young attractive white women. It seems like he would just notice some woman that

fit his killing type in public, then stalk her until he felt the moment was right to strike.

He would typically sneak up behind his unsuspecting victim,

grab her, then strangle her, stab her to death,

or sometimes drown her.

And then occasionally, seemingly high on killing, he would quickly attack some other woman who just happened to be nearby.

One time he attacked a woman while still covered in blood from the previous woman he killed.

One string of murders in Ann Arbor, Michigan occurred. from the previous woman he killed.

One string of murders in Ann Arbor, Michigan occurred on Sunday mornings,

and the brutal stabbings gave him his Sunday morning slash her nickname.

Watts was real hard to catch.

He was smart, very smart. He seemed to know whenever the

police were watching him, he never lingered a crime scene, he struck quickly,

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