Carl Eugene Watts Research Paper

Carl Eugene Watts was born in Killeen, Texas on November 7, 1953. He died on September 27, 2007 in Jackson, Michigan due to prostate cancer. Carl was born to his parents Richard and Dorothy Watts. When he was two years old, his father left him and his mother, so Carl and Dorothy moved to Inkstar, Illinois. Carl’s mother eventually remarried and had two daughters, but Carl was not fond of the idea of being a big brother to his two half sisters (Montaldo, 2017). Dorothy was a kindergarten teacher, so Carl spent a lot of time in his younger years with his grandmother. Nobody in his family had any unusual disorders or behaviors, but the divorce between his parents and the often absence of his mother could have caused Carl some stress when

The police became suspicious when Carl was brought into custody. The style of his intent to murder these women began to match up the ways other victims had been killed over the previous eight years. Watts had been questioned about being responsible for murdering at least ten women a few years prior, but it wasn’t until 1982 that all the stories began to add up. The state of Texas granted Carl immunity to admit to the murders he committed and then sentenced him to 60 years in prison for burglary with intent to murder rather than a life sentence for murdering multiple people. Many years later, Carl admitted to killing 40 women and also attacking nearly 80 others (Blanco, n.d.). Watts appealed his sentence and was scheduled to be released in 2006. Michigan officials, however, did not like the punishment Carl received, so they looked further into the investigation. They took him to court in 2004, and Carl was charged, tried, and found guilty of murder. He was then sentenced to life imprisonment. Three years later, he was taken to court again where he was found guilty of committing his very first murder. It took authorities 40 years to convict Carl of murdering his first victim. It was this second conviction that Carl was sentenced with another life imprisonment, this time without parole (Montaldo,

When Carl was 16, he was sentenced to a mental hospital in Detroit after he had sexually assaulted a 26 year old woman. This hospital reported that he was suffering from a mild case of mental retardation. However, he was released from the hospital after three months (Blanco, n.d.). Years later when Carl admitted to his attacks on women, he committed himself to Kalamazoo State Hospital with the help of his attorney. The psychiatrist did the some research on Carl’s background and diagnosed him with an antisocial personality disorder (Montaldo, 2017). This diagnosis was not an issue at trial. Since he was granted immunity, he had no problem confessing to the crimes he committed. It is obvious that Carl suffers from antisocial personality disorder, even from a young age. In middle school and high school, Carl was an introvert and awkward around others. When he began his career as an attacker and a murderer, it was then very obvious that he suffered from this disorder. Carl was not aware of the feelings his victims had, nor did he care. He was on a mission to complete his course of action and that is what he did. In order to treat Carl’s antisocial personality disorder, he would have to go through psychotherapy for a long time. There are not any medications to treat his disorder (Mayo Clinic Staff,