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But since police had insufficient evidence to lay charges with , they offered him immunity for the murders he confessed to.He confessed to 13 murders and 6 assaults in exchange for a 60-year sentence on aggravated burglary charges.Victims of the assaults he confessed to will take the stand Monday to testify as to his pattern of violence.Due to a number of technicalities and credit for time served , Watts was due for release in 2006 . Along Jermyn Street are the custom shirtmakers and bootmakers . " The evidence in this case clearly establishes he committed those murders and the reason he confessed to them is that he did them , " Kaplovitz said . " The facts and the science just do n't support that , " said Sullivan.Humeston , 60 , of Boise , Idaho , is one of about 7,000 former Vioxx users to sue the manufacturer , which pulled the one-time blockbuster arthritis drug off the market last year after research showed Vioxx doubled risk of heart attacks and strokes if taken for at least 18 months . There , another slant of blue moonlight cut the windowsill and law across the pipes on the wall . The conviction means Watts will likely die in prison , where he has been since 1982 after striking a plea bargain with authorities for 12 murders and five assaults in Michigan and Texas.The deal bought him immunity for the crimes he admitted and a 60-year sentence on aggravated burglary charges.Because of technicalities in the Texas system , Watts was slated for release in 2006 . " Dutcher was stabbed 12 times in the face , neck and chest on Dec. 1 , 1979 , behind a laundromat in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.A single eyewitness to the crime made up the state 's case against Watts , along with evidence from other murders he has confessed to.If Watts is found guilty , it will be his first murder conviction , in spite of having confessed to 13 murders and six assaults in 1982 in a plea bargain with Houston prosecutors , who had insufficient evidence to charge him in the slayings.Watts received immunity for 12 of the murders and five of the assaults he confessed to and was sentenced on lesser charges.Authorities thought he would leave prison an old man , but after receiving credit for time served , Watts faces release in 2006.With Watts ' impending release , law enforcement sought to prosecute him for crimes he had n't received immunity for and came up with Dutcher 's unsolved 1979.If he is found not guilty and serves out the rest of his sentence , he will be the only serial killer in U.S. history to ever be released , and will have served less than two years for each of the slayings he confessed to.Also Wednesday , the office of Kalamazoo County Prosecutor James Gregart announced an arrest warrant was out for Watts in connection with the 1974 death of Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele.Watts was also a student at Western Michigan University when the slaying occurred . " Brower confirmed that statement.Watts confessed to 12 murders and five assaults in 1982 , when he was arrested in Dallas during a home invasion.He was initially charged with the attempted murder of student Lori Lister , who was found unconscious in her bathtub as Watts filled it with water.Anxious to close the books on a number of unsolved murders in the area , Texas authorities struck a deal with Watts for 60 years in prison on aggravated burglary charges in exchange for confessing and leading police to the bodies of the victims he chose to bury.A Texas appeals court decision had significantly reduced Watts ' sentence when in 2004 , just two years away from Watts ' release , the Michigan Attorney General 's office successfully prosecuted him for the 1979 slashing death of Helen Dutcher.An eyewitness identified Watts as the man he saw stab Dutcher , 37 , 12 times in the face , neck and chest in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale , in a manner similar to the other murders Watts admitted.In that trial , Oakland County Circuit Judge Richard Kuhn allowed jurors to hear about the methods Watts had previously used as evidence of " a common plan , purpose or scheme . He would n't have taken it had he known about the heart attack risk , lawyer Chris Seeger told jurors.Merck repeatedly reminded jurors that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved it as safe and effective on four occasions for use against different types of pain , the last a month before Merck recalled it.The company 's lawyers cited Humeston 's elevated blood pressure , weight and stress from an ongoing dispute he was having with his U.S. Postal Service bosses , saying they were to blame for his heart attack , not Vioxx.The night before the heart attack , Humeston was called by his personal physician in response to an office visit by Postal Service fraud investigators in which they showed him a secretly-recorded videotape of Humeston working on a car at his home.Merck 's expert cardiologist testified that that call was the " absolute trigger " for the heart attack.While Humeston made for a sympathetic plaintiff , he also was a relatively healthy one , appearing in court for nearly every day of testimony and taking the stand for one day.In the Texas case , the victim was a Wal-Mart produce manager who died after taking Vioxx ; his widow was the plaintiff.Merck 's lawyers also told jurors there was no scientific link between short-term Vioxx use and heart attacks .