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The court ruled he had not been notified at the time of his confession that his felony could be considered aggravated because of his use of a deadly weapon.With that ruling , Watts was deemed a nonviolent felon and became eligible to receive three days ' good-time credit for every day served in prison , making him eligible for release in 2006.The development compelled authorities in Texas and Michigan to investigate ways to block Watts ' release by prosecuting him for crimes that were not part of his confession.In January 2004 , Michigan resident Joseph Foy was channel-surfing when he spotted Watts ' mugshot on a cable news show.Foy testified at Watts ' trial that he immediately recognized Watts as the man he had " locked eyes " with behind his home on Dec. 1 , 1979 , after he saw Helen Dutcher fall to the ground dead . " He 's the nation 's most prolific serial killer , yet the name Coral Eugene Watts barely even registers on the public radar because he 's never been convicted of murder , " said Andy Kahan , a member of the Crime Victims Unit in Houston , who has followed the case since 1982.A chance encounter while channel surfingThis most recent chapter in the story of Coral Eugene Watts — whose first name comes from his relatives ' southern pronunciation of his birth name , Carl — began in 2002.Watts was about four years away from release after a Texas Court of Appeals ruled that he had not been notified at the time of his indictment that his felony could be considered aggravated because of his use of a deadly weapon — water.With that ruling , Watts was deemed a nonviolent felon and became eligible to receive three days ' good-time credit for every day served in prison.The development compelled authorities in Texas and Michigan to begin investigating ways to block Watts ' impending release . Lanier also points to Merck 's medical manual , which says arrhythmia in some form occurs in more than 90 percent of heart attack patients.Under questioning from Merck lawyer David Kiernan , Wiener conceded that he ca n't say with reasonable medical probability that Ernst had a bona fide heart attack . For the world of high society and high fashion was more porous than anyone in society cared to admit ; and the theatre , as it often does , embodied by its very theatrical nature the instability of the English class system . " Four months later , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote to Merck President Raymond Gilmartin and told him the promotional campaign was misleading.The claim that Vioxx " has a ' favorable cardiovascular profile ' is simply incomprehensible , " said the letter from Thomas W. Abrams , director of the Department 's Division of Drug Marketing , Advertising and Communication , which monitors pharmaceutical advertising.Last year , after Vioxx was pulled off the market , senior FDA epidemiologist David Graham published a treatise in Lancet that said " 88,000 to 140,000 excess cases of serious coronary heart disease probably occurred in the USA over the market life of rofecoxib , " or Vioxx.When trials show that a new treatment " confers a greater risk of a serious adverse effect than a standard treatment , we must be much more careful about allowing its unrestrained use , " Graham wrote.Under cross-examination , Lucchesi — who was on the stand when the documents were presented on an overhead projector — read fine print at the bottom of the study that said the opinions were not necessarily those of the FDA.The documents swung the tenor of what started as a good day for Merck , with Lucchesi acknowledging he had misspoken on the stand earlier.He told jurors he had not reviewed a document attached to a 1997 e-mail message from a Merck scientist that he said on Friday showed Merck had tried to alter the design of an upcoming study by giving aspirin to patients on Vioxx to protect their hearts . ' " Kahan and the victims ' families embarked on a media blitz to promote news of Watts ' release , highlighting that he had been denied parole six times because he was considered a public threat.In January 2004 , Michigan resident Joseph Foy was channel surfing when he came upon Watts ' mug shot on MSNBC.He notified police that he recognized the man from an unsolved stabbing he witnessed 25 years ago in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale , near the 8-Mile Road made famous by rapper Eminem.After confirming that Foy had reported the multiple stabbing death of 36-year-old Helen Dutcher in 1979 , Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox sought to extradite Watts to stand trial . In this course , we will read a number of works that have been handed down to us as classic " Victorian novels . He also points to Merck 's medical manual used by doctors across the country , which says arrhythmia in some form occurs in more than 90 percent of heart attack patients . ATLANTIC CITY ( AP ) The judge in the second Vioxx product liability trial delivered a stunning blow to Merck on Friday morning when she struck the testimony of its first defense witness from the record.With the jury outside , Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee said she felt misled and sickened upon rereading the transcript of Thursday 's testimony by a Merck researcher who said studies by the company in the late 1990s showed the pain reliever would not cause heart damage.Higbee struck the testimony of Merck researcher Dr. Briggs Morrison from the record because she said he is not an expert on the studies he had told the jury about Thursday , nor did Merck give the court sufficient notice about what he would discuss . The judge has not yet ruled on the motion , Merck said.Merck considers the witness testimony " important to this case because it allows jurors to hear about the benefits of Vioxx and how important it was to doctors and patients , " according to Merck 's outside counsel , Hughes Hubbard & Reed.Chris Seeger , the attorney representing Humeston , was not immediately available for comment.This is not the first time the Vioxx trials have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina . " Kaplovitz had sought unsuccessfully to block evidence of Watts ' brutal methods of strangling , stabbing or drowning his admitted victims without leaving any evidence to link him to the slayings .