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attacker’s method of opera-tion. “I also saw his car in front of the school that night. He drove away as soon as I walked past the car. I saw him crouched beside the bushes. I saw a shiny thing and thought someone was looking for something.”
    Dalpe believed the man thought he killed her and had left her for dead. Miraculously, somehow, she survived.
    According to the United States Customs, Coral Watts’s

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    brown Grand Prix was photographed crossing over the U.S.-Canadian border at 2:15 A . M . the following day.
    On November 1, 1980, thirty-year-old Mary Angus, also from Windsor, managed to evade Watts. She arrived at her home at 1:30 A . M . after returning from a Halloween party. When she got out of her car, she noticed a well-built black man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt. She kept an eye on the man as she walked up to her front door. As she took out her key chain, she noticed that the man had stopped to kneel down and tie his shoe. He immediately switched directions and made a beeline for Angus. The young woman screamed at the top of her lungs and bolted for her front door. Her actions startled the man, who took off running. Later, she would be presented with a photographic lineup by the police, wherein she immediately pointed to a picture of Coral Eugene Watts. Unfortunately, she added that she was not 100 percent sure that he was her potential attacker due to the poorly lit conditions.
    Once again, U.S. Customs had records that indicated Watts’s Grand Prix was seen crossing over the border from Windsor into Detroit at 2:07 A . M ., shortly after the near attack.
    Five days later, on November 6, 1980, sixty-three-year-old waitress Lena “Joyce” Bennett’s naked body was discovered hanging by a black trench coat belt from a wooden beam in her Van Antwerp Street garage in Harper Woods, Michigan.
    Bennett had driven home from her late-night shift at a nearby restaurant. Unlike the other women discovered in Michigan, Bennett had been sexually assaulted. Allegedly, a broomstick had been inserted into her vagina.

CHAPTER 6

    Fellow Ann Arbor Homicide detectives Paul Bunten and Dale Heath believed they knew who was responsible for the assaults and murders in Ann Arbor: Coral Eugene Watts.
    On November 15, 1980, fifteen-year veteran Bunten was informed by two beat patrol officers that they spotted Watts as he stalked a young woman at 4:50 A . M . down Main Street in Ann Arbor. It would be the first and only time that any authority figures witnessed Watts’s elaborate game of cat and mouse.
    Watts cruised Main Street in his Grand Prix. He honed his sights in on a young woman coming home late that night. He would drive past the woman slowly and pull over a block or so ahead of her. The woman soon became aware that someone was following her. She darted around a corner and headed off in a different direction. Watts doubled back the car and continued to stalk her.
    The woman became increasingly frightened. She continued to duck into corners and into apartment doorways to evade the man. The interminable dance lasted for more than nine blocks.
    The two officers witnessed the entire ordeal.

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    Finally the woman darted around one corner too many for Watts, who lost her in the shadows. She managed to get inside her apartment on the 200 block of North Main Street. Watts was furious.
    “He almost went nuts,” Bunten recalled to the Houston Chronicle . “The police who were watching him said he got frantic, started craning his head around in the car, trying to see where she’d gone. He even got agitated and ran around trying to see her.”
    He excitedly forced open his car door and literally jumped out of his seat. He began to search along the sidewalk and in the apartment doorways to find her. She was nowhere to be found.
    Dejected, Watts turned around and headed back to his Grand Prix, only to be confronted by the two officers. With athletic grace and speed, he slipped the cops.