Facts of the Crime:
A jury granted a former California math teacher his request for the death penalty for the 2006 killing and dismembering of his wife in a Las Vegas hotel room. The same jury that convicted 70-year-old John Matthias Watson III of first-degree murder deliberated less than two hours before handing down the death penalty. The body of 50-year-old Everilda "Evie" Watson has never been found. Her children reported her missing in July 2006 after John Watson returned home to Ontario, California, from a vacation without her. Authorities reported finding blood in the couple's Jeep Cherokee, and Watson was seen on videotape buying an electric saw, bleach, odor absorbent trash bags and other items.
Watson was sentenced to death on June 11, 2010.
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