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" 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 . Steele , 19 , was stabbed 33 times in the chest in her home.Watts has long been a suspect in the murder , although authorities would not say what prompted the charges.Outside the courtroom , Kaplovitz offered his opinion . Over the course of the semester , we will study the moods embraced and enjoined by particular novels alongside nineteenth-century writing about mood in popular journalism , conduct books , political economy , and psychology . ANGLETON , Texas ( AP ) Deliberations await jurors who have heard more than a month of often complex testimony about Merck & Co. ' s painkiller Vioxx and whether it led to the 2001 death of a Texas man.On Wednesday , jurors were to hear the last word from Merck 's legal team and plaintiff 's attorney Mark Lanier in closing arguments before they began weighing the evidence.Merck rested its case Tuesday in a trial that has drawn national attention from pharmaceutical companies , lawyers , consumers and stock analysts as the first of several tests of what lies ahead for the New Jersey-based drug maker.Merck has vowed to fight the more than 4,200 state and federal Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the country . " In other entries , however , Waterman revealed herself to be decidedly mainstream , if not a little geeky.Before Christmas 2003 , she described in great detail the cookies she was baking with her mother . The Michigan Attorney General 's office argued throughout the weeklong trial that Watts brutally stabbed Dutcher 12 times in the left side of her face , neck and chest in a manner consistent with other murders he confessed to in a 1982 plea-bargain deal.Among them , he admitted to stabbing Jeanne Clyne of Grosse Pointe Farms , Mich ., 31 days before Dutcher 's murder.Confessed serial killer Coral Eugene Watts listens as the prosecution asks the jury to convict him of murder during closing arguments Tuesday . In Texas , punitive damages are capped at twice the amount of economic damages — lost pay — and up to $ 750,000 on top of non-economic damages , which are comprised of mental anguish and loss of companionship.The case drew national attention from pharmaceutical companies , lawyers , consumers , stock analysts and arbitragers as a signal of what lies ahead for Merck , which has vowed to fight the more than 4,200 state and federal Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the country . " I could feel him pushing my nose all the way inside my face , " she testified , sobbing heavily.He went on to slash her once more in the groin area , she testified , and in the back , although the cuts were absorbed by the multiple layers of clothes she was wearing.At the defense table , Watts appeared disengaged from her testimony , barely looking up from what he was reading.The attack Hernandez described bore certain similarities to the assault 36-year-old Helen Dutcher died from on Dec. 1 , 1979.Dutcher was stabbed at least 12 times in the face , neck and chest in a deserted lot near 8-Mile Road , a strip made famous by rapper Eminem.Testimony from former roommates Lori Lister and Melinda Aguilar provided further insight into Watts ' methods.Lister testified with nervous laughter that she was coming home from a late night out when Watts ambushed her from behind at her front door , choking her unconscious before dragging her to her second-floor apartment.Aguilar , her roommate , was getting ready for church when Watts unlocked the door to her apartment with her roommate 's keys . Merck has said it plans to fight the product liability suits one by one.The Texas and New Jersey cases have drawn national attention from pharmaceutical companies , lawyers , consumers and stock analysts who are trying to determine what lies ahead for Merck . The South Texas case is the first to go to trial among more than 4,200 state and federal lawsuits.The trial , which began July 14 , has drawn national attention from pharmaceutical companies , lawyers , consumers and stock analysts as the first test of what lies ahead for the drug maker . In the course of the semester , we will read a series of nineteenth-century novels alongside their twentieth-century counterparts in order to ask a number of difficult literary , historical , and theoretical questions : why have so many present-day authors found it essential to take up the politics and poetics of nineteenth-century fiction ? " It 's not unusual for inmates to demand to see the sentencing papers of new arrivals to learn about their crimes and then attack or otherwise intimidate those who have brutalized children or who will not disclose their offense .