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Case Description
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Carrie Mae Jefferson, a 32-year-old African American woman from Houston, Texas, was tragically murdered on the night of April 16, 1982. She had just returned home from her job at the downtown post office when she was accosted outside her residence. According to later confessions, Coral Eugene Watts—an infamous serial killer—choked Carrie Mae Jefferson into semiconsciousness, forced her into the trunk of her own car, and drove her to White Oak Bayou. Despite her desperate attempts to escape, ...Read More
Victim Details

Carrie Mae Jefferson

Female

Black / African American

Houston

TX

1982-04-16

32

Carrie

Mae Jefferson

12/03/2025