When Watkins was arrested, Independence police released two of the creepiest photos I've ever seen.

And the probable cause statement is a most disturbing read.

At the sentencing, Watkins apologized, according to Fox 4 news.

"I just want to say how sorry I am to my victims, the families of my victims and my family," Watkins said. "I need treatment. I don't need to be locked up."

Oh, yes, you do.

Earlier this year, I spoke with Patrick Wolf, who worked with -- and got his hair cut by -- Watkins. Wolf recalled Watkins setting up "a mini-spook house" in his backyard. It was run by young children. Wolf recalls maybe eight or ten kids, ages 6 through 11, working at the homemade haunted house. Wolf says it was for local trick-or-treaters. He says he didn't think anything of it at the time -- it was just Watkins playing his Beetlejuice character.

"He's really always done this because he worked at a haunted house," Wolf told me.

Afterwords, though, it creeped him out.

A couple of Watkins' victims and several former clients from his hair salon have been posting on a forum since January 2008. One poster recounted getting his hair cut at Watkins' in-home hair salon and witnessing Watkins' arrest. Watkins apparently thought someone was coming over to buy his van when the Independence police raided his home.

"I knew Bill did tweek [sic] from time to time, and figured that must be what this bust was all for," Doug from Independence wrote on February 6. "His 2 boys were there, the older one crying out to Bill. I was standing there in his driveway, him hands cuffed, behind a police car, looking at him, wondering what he had been up to for all this commotion that was suddenly going on, I mean suddenly there were several law enforcement cars swarming the place."

One of Watkins' victims wasn't satisfied with the 30-year sentence.

"I hardly think that is long enough," RRW wrote on September 28. "I have already suffered from his abuse for 25 ... and will probably be in counseling for many more. I think that he should be given a life sentence as I was givin [sic]. I just pray that while he is in prison that he gets abused as he abused me and many others."