Exclusive: Convicted killer confesses to murdering two child molesters in California prison, says his warnings to guards fell on deaf ears
Watson says he told corrections officials he was close to getting violent
Nate Gartrell | Bay Area News Group | UPDATED: February 21, 2020 at 3:52 a.m.CORCORAN — 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.
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In the letter, Watson said he had recently been given a lower-level security classification, from Level III to Level II, prompting his transfer from a single-person cell to dorm-style living at the Corcoran prison. Watson was displeased by the transfer, which he called a “careless†mistake by CDCR, adding he left “quite a paper trail†of grievances protesting it.
Six days into his stay at the prison, Watson wrote, “a child molester†moved into his pod. His letter does not refer to Bobb nor Luis-Conti by name but said the man — referred to as “Molester #1†— began watching PBS Kids in full view of other inmates, which Watson and others took as a taunt.
That night, Watson wrote, “I could not sleep having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there, so I packed all of my things because I knew one way or another the situation would be resolved the following day.â€
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California should consider renting this guy out to other state prison systems.
