killed 40 women, and also implied that there were more than 80 victims in total. He would not confess outright to having committed these murders, however, because he did not want to be seen as a "mass murderer". Police still consider Watts a suspect in 90 unsolved murders. Watts is now suspected to have killed more than 100 women, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in American history. The following is a summary of confirmed and suspected murders that have been linked to Watts: September 6, 1972: Zenaida Tomes, 20, was discovered in a field in Taylor, Michigan, adjacent to North Line Road and Lange Close. She had suffered 45 stab wounds. Over the years, rumours have circulated that Tomes' death may have been caused by Watts, who was present in the area at the time. However, she was taken from Detroit and murdered somewhere else, which is contradictory with Watts' known modus operandi, therefore officials are less convinced that he was involved. August, 16, 1974: At 9:30 in the morning, Nadine Jean O'Dell, a 16-year-old girl, was last seen on John Daly Road in Inkster, Michigan, heading toward Michigan Avenue. He was going to meet her boyfriend in Taylor, Michigan, where she was going to babysit at his house. Nadine never made it to the house when he did. October 30, 1974: Gloria Steele, a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student, was attacked and fatally stabbed 33 times in her Kalamazoo, Michigan apartment. In 2004, Watts was convicted of killing the woman. September 21, 1979: Malak “Mimi” Haddad, 34, was found headless in Allen Park, Michigan. Her case is still open, and her head was never found. October 2, 1979: Dawn Jerome, 20, was found strangled to death in Taylor, Michigan. October 8, 1979: Peggy Pochmara, 22, was discovered dead in Detroit, strangled, in the front yard of her boyfriend's neighbour. October 31, 1979: Jeanne Clyne, 44, was stabbed to death on a sidewalk in Grosse Point Farms, a Detroit suburb, as she made her way home from a doctor's appointment. With a screwdriver-like woodworking tool, she had been stabbed 13 times. December 1, 1979: Helen Mae Dutcher, 36, was attacked by a man who repeatedly stabbed her in the neck and back in an alleyway near a Ferndale dry cleaners in Detroit. Twelve stab wounds caused Dutcher's death. Witness Joseph Foy contributed to Watts' 2004 conviction