The Sunday Morning Slasher

The Life and Crimes of Carl Eugene Watts

De: Mark Stokes

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Carl Eugene Watts—known infamously as The Sunday Morning Slasher—was a predator hiding in plain sight. Over the course of the 1970s and early 1980s, Watts murdered numerous women across Michigan and Texas, targeting those already vulnerable. He operated with chilling boldness and minimal detection, striking often in the early hours of Sunday mornings, a pattern that earned him his grim nickname.

Drawing on police files, confessions, court documents, survivor testimonies, and media archives, The Sunday Morning Slasher reconstructs Watts’s trajectory from troubled youth to one of America’s most prolific—and least understood—serial killers. Although he officially confessed to 13 murders, Watts claimed responsibility for dozens more, and is suspected in upwards of 80 to 100 deaths. The narrative confronts how he manipulated trust, evaded detection across jurisdictions, and exploited weaknesses in the criminal justice system to continue his reign of terror.

But this book is more than a chronicle of atrocity—it’s a piercing examination of culpability, institutional failure, and memory. It amplifies the voices of victims long lost to anonymity, probes how legal deals and jurisdictional boundaries once nearly allowed Watts to walk free, and asks an uncomfortable question: how many monsters are still unknown among us? Harrowing, meticulously researched, and unflinching, The Sunday Morning Slasher forces us to confront what happens when evil wears an ordinary face—and how fragile our sense of safety can truly be.