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four-to-five-mile walk.

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    Small’s boyfriend drove off after her at approximately 4:00 A . M . He found her walking on the sidewalk and tried to coax her into his car. She would have nothing to do with him and continued on. The boyfriend gave up and drove off. She was seen by some neighbors at 4:30 A . M .
    When Small’s body was discovered, it was determined that she bled to death because of two stab wounds to the heart with a scalpel-like instrument. According to her autopsy report, it was actually one stab wound between the second and third ribs that was retracted and plunged back in without ever leaving her heart. Small also had six deep slices on her face: two on each of her cheeks, including one three-and-a-half-inch wound described as looking like a “hockey stick,” one over her right eyebrow, and one on her upper lip.
    Small’s purse was lying on the ground next to her body. She also had not been robbed or raped.
    One of Small’s neighbors, Dennis Casselberry, believed her murderer was probably someone she knew. “We were concerned, but figured it was a fluke— probably a personal thing.”

    By May of 1980, Valeria Goodwill had had enough. She filed for divorce from Coral Eugene Watts.

    On May 31, 1980, twenty-seven-year-old Linda Monteiro was found strangled outside her home in Detroit. She had just returned from a meeting for her church choir. Her body was found just four blocks from where Hazel Conniff’s had been discovered. As with the other women,

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    Monteiro’s body showed no signs of sexual assault. It also did not appear as if she had been robbed.
    Things seemed to slow down in June and the first half of July. By the middle of the month, however, they picked up with a vengeance.
    On July 13, 1980, twenty-six-year-old Brown Jug Restaurant night manager Glenda Richmond was found dead just twenty-seven feet from her apartment door on East Ellsworth Road and Braeburn Circle, next to Ellsworth Park in Ann Arbor. She had been stabbed twenty-eight times in her left breast with a screwdriver.
    According to police reports, Richmond, an Eastern Michigan University student, left work at 4:00 A . M . She dropped off a fellow coworker at home and would have arrived at her own residence between 4:20 and 4:30 A . M . At 5:17 A . M ., her body was discovered lying on her back. She wore blue jeans, a blouse, bra, and panties. Her blouse had been lifted up to expose her stomach.
    Richmond had parked her car in the apartment complex parking lot and was walking toward her apartment. Her keys were found lying next to her corpse and her purse was still slung over her shoulder. Everything was still inside her purse. She had not been robbed or raped. On July 31, at 3:00 A . M ., aspiring model Lilli Dunn, twenty-eight, was abducted from her driveway on Agnes Street in Southgate, near Wyandotte and the northwest upper portion of Lake Erie. Dunn, like Jeanne Clyne, worked for the Detroit News , but as an accounting clerk. Two witnesses spotted the married mother fight, kick, and scream at her assailant as he dragged her into his car. The witnesses were unable to reach the car before it bolted out of there. Police later discovered her purse, a pair of high-heeled shoes, and a brush. They did not, however, find
    Dunn’s body.

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    Later that same day, at 3:43 A . M ., twenty-two-year-old, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, resident Irene Kondratowitz was grabbed from behind by a man and had her throat slashed as she walked to her home after a night of barhopping. She survived the attack but was unable to identify her assailant. According to the United States Customs authorities, Coral Watts’s 1978 brown Grand Prix was photographed crossing the border from Windsor into Detroit at 4:16 A . M ., soon after the reported time of the attack on Kondratowitz.
    Less than two months later, at around 4:00 A . M . on September 14, 1980, twenty-year-old University of Michigan Business School