AUTHORITIES SAY CORAL EUGENE WATTS DIED YESTERDAY IN FOOTE HOSPITAL IN MICHIGAN OF PROSTATE CANCER.
     JUST LAST WEEK HE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON IN THE 1974 SLAYING OF A WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY STUDENT MORE THAN THREE DECADES AGO.
     WATTS CONFESSED TO KILLING SEVERAL WOMEN IN HOUSTON.

     WATTS LED POLICE TO SEVERAL BODIES HE'D BURIED - THE TRADEOFF, A PLEA BARGAIN THAT SPARED HIM THE DEATH PENALTY, SET FOR MANDATORY RELEASE IN TEXAS THREE YEARS AGO. 
     MICHIGAN EXTRADITED HIM AND CONVICTED HIM OF KILLING TWO WOMEN THERE. 
     A HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FORMER HOMICIDE DETECTIVE - REACTED TO WATTS' DEATH - HE SAID HE'S SATISFIED.

"For the folks and families of these victims, it's a glorious day and I seldom say this about anyone, but we ought to have a big party tonight cause Coral Eugene Watts is dead, " Former Houston police department homicide detective, J.C. Mosier said.

     NOW ACCORDING TO MICHIGAN AUTHORITIES WATTS WAS A SUSPECT IN 26 OTHER SLAYINGS AND MIGHT HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 80 WOMEN.