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2A It's Dlore than a matter of party politics in Grosse Pointe City's race for mayor By John Minnis Assistant Editor It bel.pn \lllh ,I dhpule ()\ 1'1 Gro..,"" Po lllll' CII, .., u'nll'nlll,l1 and Illm ('ounclh\lllll.lll ~h 111.1 Snlllh \" gOIng on to ch,lIl\'ngp the 111,\\ 01 f(lI Ill'" Job 7\' 0\ 'j' DUring the "Ulllmel fil'l lelm Counuh\ oman Smith ,1Cllhl'd Ma) 01 LOll'llLO D BI 0\1 nlllg of 0pp0;,lllg hel planned 1989 cen ten mal pdlty for the cll \ 111 Au gusl because of hel plan;, to lun agamst him fOl mayOl Whll" the CIty CouncIl ended the cen tenmal' dIspute b) "'pecl candy Thl' Woods Pubhc Safety De Pdl ment pI OVIdI'd the follOWing gUldehnes by the NatIOnal Confl'ctlOner Ralph Clark, secletal y of the school board, and the IlIdn on the left was Chm Ie" Pat ce II'>, pI eSlde n t of the hChooI bo,1Id, accO! dmg to Mary SdV
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October 26, 1989 Grosse Pointe News tiCl4 Halloween: 10 years after brutal murder of Farms By John Minnis ASSistant Editor Ten years ago on Halloween a 44-year old Farms woman was walking home on Kercheval about 6'30 p m when a 35 year. old man approached her from behmd He put hIS left arm around her neck and WIth hIS nght hand holdIng a 14-mch, sharp ened screwdrIver, he stabbed the woman 11 tImes In the left chest The suspect, though never charged WIth murder, confessed In 1982 to the slayIng m the Farms, as well as a dozen mur del'S elsewhele But In three years, the kIller, Coral Eugene Watts, may be paroHed from a Houston JaIl In reactIOn to the poSSIbIlIty of the mass killer pOSSIbly gomg free, "CrIme Watch TOnIght," a daIly program shown on Channel 2 at 4 pm, had a camera crew m the Farms to mtervlew the officers who mvestlgated the mUIder of Jeanne Carol Clyne on Halloween 1979 The show WIll all' on an unspeCified date withm a couple of weeks, saId speCIal projects pi oducer Chnsto pher BenjamIn Clyne's body was found by res. Ident Howard Ballantyne, then 20 years old, who lIved near the murder scene on Kercheval between MelTlweather and Loth- head under the water and near rap. The first officer at the scene drowmng her If she dIdn't coop was a 24-year-old named Dan erate Jensen Because there was no phySical It was the first murder he'd eVIdence lInkIng Watts to the expenenced as an officer Today, Farms murder, then Wayne a Farms detectIve, he remem. County ProsecutOl WIlham L bers that her body was stIlI Cahal~n, a Farms reSident who warm and that she was clutch. I!:>now a ClrcUlt Court Judge, Ing leaves and tWigs In her gave FIeld Wlltten permISSIon to hands where she fell offer Watts ImmunIty If he DespIte hundreds of how s of agreed to be mtervlewed m overtime by Farms DetectIves Houston by the detectIve George VanTlem, Earl FIeld, On Aug 18, 1982, Watts not Sam Cardella, Farms PolIce only confessed to Field that he ChIef Robert Ferber, other offi kIlled Clyne, but he confessed to cers from the Farms and all the kllhng two other women "in Pomtes and Harper Woods and a your town" Field theOrIzes one team from the MichIgan State woman was killed m Harper Pohce, the brutal Oct 31, 1979, Woods and another In DetrOIt murder was never solved Watts told FIeld he was drlV- That IS the murder was never mg alound and just picked tned m c~urt .._~~ .. 91lne_ out .et random He fol. Detective' Fleldy>- "'o\Yeverri\tew~ ~e'lm his>~ ,as she knows who dId It, and (the con. fessed mass mw derer IS sIttIng In a Texas pnson. In fact, he was supposed to be locked up for ,.... 60 years following hIS 1982 arrest and conVictIOn in 1982. In 1982, Watts was sentenced to 60 years Without parole for burglary WIth mtent to commIt murder He was found m a Houston apartment where he had tIed one woman up WIth coat hangers and was sexually assaultIng another woman m her bathtub. In heu of a weapon, he was holding the woman's { ~ , Confessed mass murderer could be free in three years PholIJ ~l\ Jo~m '1m,,,, Farms Detective Earl Field shows where Jeanne Carol Clyne was killed by confessed mass murderer Coral Eugene Wattl on Halloween 1919. Chris Benjamin. special project producer for "Crime Watch Tonight:' and cameraman Doug Tracey shot the local footage on a segment about Watts for airing on Channel 2 on an unspecified date in the next week or two. walked from her psychlatnst's office on the Hill He then drove on ahead and waited for her and approached her from behInd Watts IS described as anImal-lIke m hIS stalkmg of a VIctIm, and once he picked out a woman to kill, he never gave up untIl he succeeded When he was arrested In Texas, he confessed to 11 mUI ders there, makmg a total of 14 woman he has specIfically admIt ted to kilhng Pohce further be heve he is responSIble for 26 other murders - a total of 40 women Field said that durIng the seven-hour mtervlew, Watts ad. mltted to kllhng a woman every three weeks In the metro DetrOIt area from 1972 or 1973 untIl he left for Texas m March 1981 He's suspected of kllhng thlee 18450 MACK. 881.3062 - Hours 4 p m 2 a m (1a P•..,.'~ I Finest Quality at the Most Deslfoble Pnces "'" ./ ' LOBSTER PARTY ~ "'J )WHOLEMAINE LOBSTERDINNER' )\ ~ FRIDAY& SATURDAYonly $12 95 Mon , lues &. Wed ZoPauls Famous Corned Beef & Cabbage Plate $7 lhursday- Fresh 1urkey Dinner Stuffing Mashed Potato & Gravy $6 95 I PIANO BAR: Thurs., Fri., sat., • Banquet Facilities Available ALL FULL PRICE FALL FASHIONS plus an additional 10 % OFF everything on sale. the willow tree Slmplv Wonderful Clothes! 16910 Kercheval \\IN THEVILLAGE" GROSSE POINTE women m Ann Al bOl In 1980, where he was dubbed the "Sun day MornIng Slasher" At the tIme of the Ann Arbor kIllIngs, polIce there dId have Watts under aITest FIeld went to Ann Arbor to mtel view Watts, but the defense attorney Iefused to allow It Moments later, the Ann AI bar detectIVes receIved an anonymous call stat mg that Watts was the Sunday MornIng Slasher Police belIeve the anonymous caller was the defense attorney While In Ann Arbor, FIeld gave Watts a cup of coffee and bummed a cIgarette for him from hiS partner, Cardella Two years later when FIeld mter. VIewed Watts, the mass murderer remembered FIeld's kmd ness In Texas,'Watts even took po lIce to where he had bUrIed some jtil 1 t 1 RENTt,lRIOE RENT A CAR 313-884-RENT LOW RAl ESINTHEVILLAGE 1E:~(l KEHCHEVAL r ( of female vIctIms In shallow graves Even with all the confessIOns, Watt!:> hafully eluded polIurveJllance and left no physIcal eVIdence behInd But FIeld I'> conVInced Watts kIlled Clyne be court ruled the defendant wasn't mformed that he faced a lethal weapon charge Hence, no deadly weapon charge dnd he gets a chance at parole "You're Sick to your stomach that he gets out," FIeld said, "If he get
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