Robert Watts
I both love and hate reading about very old crimes. First, I like hearing new stories but the information on them are very scarce unless it is one that has been handed down through generations. However, the problem with the latter is that much of the information gets skewed over the years with the re-telling of the story. Cases like Leopold and Loeb and The Bloody Benders are good examples of this. Then there are the cases like that against Robert Watts. Much of the information I was able to obtain came from excerpts of an appeal filed in this case and from later information when inmates in Indiana were executed. Robert Watts would be executed by the state in the electric chair in 1951. The next execution, which would be the last in the state before executions were halted from 1972-1976, took place in 1961. What I can tell you about this case was that a woman named Mary Lois Burney was murdered on November 14, 1947. All I could determine was that she had ...