Saturday, February 22, 2020

A RIGHTEOUS CONVICT?

Convicted Killer Confesses To Murdering Two Child Molesters In California Prison, Says His Warnings To Guards Fell On Deaf Ears

LAPPL News Watch
February 21, 2020

Jonathan Watson, the California inmate accused of beating two convicted child molesters to death with a cane last month, has publicly confessed to both killings and says he gave prison officials plenty of warning that an attack would come if he wasn’t transferred to a new facility.

In a letter to this news organization, Watson, 41, said he murdered David Bobb, 48, and Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, with another inmate’s cane just one week after being transferred to California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, in Corcoran.

Watson wrote that hours before attacking both men, he told a counselor at the prison that he wanted to be transferred, adding that the request was “urgent,” and that he would soon attack an inmate, but said that the warning was ignored.

After the first attack, Watson said he was surprised at the lack of response from guards, so he singled out a second “child trafficker” and began beating him.

Authorities were unaware of either homicide until Watson located a guard and led him to the bloody scene, he wrote.

2 comments:

Trey Rusk said...

Score two for prison reform.

bob walsh said...

Depending on the lag time between the talk with the counselor, the talk with the "guards" and the attacks there could be some people with some serious explaining to do. Also, a vauge threat is not exactly a rare manipulation technique by someone who wants a transfer. Evaluating such things is an inexact science at best.