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.”
The next day, only two hours before the brutal killings, Watson met with a prison counselor and demanded that he be switched back to Level III security “before I really (expletive) one of these dudes up.”
Instead of taking his threat seriously, Watson said the counselor “scoffed and dismissed me.”
Although he had already said that he might not be able to control his violent urges around the child molesters, he was returned to his pod.
“I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1, and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again. But this time, someone else said something to the effect of, ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I recall saying, ‘I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him.”
After killing the first child molester, Watson left the pod to go turn himself into a prison guard. That’s when he encountered “Molester #2” and decided to kill him, too.
“As I got to the lower tier, I saw a known child trafficker, and I figured I’d just do everybody a favor,” he wrote. “In for a penny, in for a pound.”
After killing two child molesters, Watson approached an officer to turn himself in.
In his letter, Watson wrote: “I told him, ‘I’ve got some pretty bad news,’ to which he ironically replied, ‘You’re not going to hit me with that cane, are you?’ So after jesting for a moment, knowing this might be the last decent moment that I have for a long time, I told him what I’d just done, which he also didn’t believe until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I’d left in the dorm area.”
Watson was currently in the middle of a life sentence for a 2009 murder conviction.