Samantha Watts will serve 45 years in prison, and one of her sons will serve 35, for the 2023 beating death of Corey Adam Soles of Chadbourn.
Samantha Watts, 42 and her son Payton, both of Green Sea, S.C. entered guilty pleas Monday in a Conway courtroom. Both pleaded guilty to murder. Amber Watts, 23, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact, and Jonathan Watts, 21, pleaded guilty to assault and battery. He was sentenced o time served. Amber and Jonathan Watts were sentenced under South Carolina youthful offender rules, since the crime was committed when they were underage.
Soles was reported missing Jan. 10, 2023, near Galivants Ferry. He was found more than a week later, in part because of information gathered by Christopher Rhodes of Precision Search and Rescue. Soles had been beaten by a group of at least seven people, including Samantha Watts…