Sheriffs digging in rocky terrain with onlookers surrounding them during search for James P. Watson's murder victim in Sugarloaf Canyon. Watson had married several women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was sentenced to life for murder. Reported in "IN MODERN BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.: Here are the Wives of James P. Watson, Seven He is Known to Have Murdered, Three He Probably Slew and Twelve Who Escaped with Their Lives. In the Case of the Monster Who is to be Sentenced Here Tomorrow. STORY OF THE MODERN BLUEBEARD; Watson, Perhaps Part Negro, Betrays Evidences of Revolting Moral Perversion in the Manner of His Many Murders of Women Whom He Married," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1920: II1.
Sheriffs digging in rocky terrain with onlookers surrounding them during search for James P. Watson's murder victim in Sugarloaf Canyon. Watson had married several women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was sentenced to life for murder. Photo appears with the article "IN MODERN BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.: Here are the Wives of James P. Watson, Seven He is Known to Have Murdered, Three He Probably Slew and Twelve Who Escaped with Their Lives. In the Case of the Monster Who is to be Sentenced Here Tomorrow. STORY OF THE MODERN BLUEBEARD; Watson, Perhaps Part Negro, Betrays Evidences of Revolting Moral Perversion in the Manner of His Many Murders of Women Whom He Married," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1920: II1.
James P. Watson had married between 16-22 women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was caught when his last wife, Kathryn Wombacher became suspicious of his activities and hired a private investigator. The investigator uncovered Watson’s scheme of placing personal ads in newspapers under different alias in attempts to marry women and gain their property. Once under arrest Watson confessed to multiple murders of previous wives and led police to the grave of his last victim, Nina Lee DeLaney. He was sentenced to life for the murder of DeLaney. In 1939 he died of pneumonia in San Quentin prison
