The Rae Carruth Murder Traditional Cache
BEENTHERE309: Will replace this one again sometime.
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First of all, DO NOT PARK NEXT TO THE CACHE.....there is no parking or stopping, however brief, at this busy intersection. Find a side street nearby and WALK to the cache site.....you know you could use the exercise. You are seeking an altoids tin with log and swag at the site of an infamous Charlotte murder.
This intersection, at the corner of Rea Road and MacArndrews Drive is where Cherica Adams, on-and-off girlfriend of Charlotte Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth, and mother of his unborn child was shot multiple times by assailants who were associated with Carruth. He was eventually convicted of conspiracy to murder after a widely covered trial and is presently serving prison time.
On Nov. 16, 1999, after seeing the movie "The Bone Collector" with Carruth at a nearby cinema, Cherica Adams, a real estate agent he had been casually dating, was shot five times by Van Brett Watkins, a night club manager and friend of Carruth. Wounds not being immediately fatal, Adams called 911 saying Carruth had stopped his vehicle in front of hers as another vehicle drove alongside Adams and its passenger shot her. Carruth then drove away from the scene.
Adams was eight months pregnant with Carruth's child at the time. Soon after her admission to the hospital, she fell into a coma. Doctors saved the child via an emergency Caesarean section; Adams died a month later on Dec. 14.
Carruth went to the police and posted a $3 million bail, on condition that if either Cherica or Her child died, he would turn himself in. After Cherica died, he fled rather than turn himself in. He was captured after being found hiding in the trunk of a car outside a motel in Parkers Crossroads, Tennessee. Also in the trunk was $3,900 cash, bottles of his urine, extra clothes, candy bars and a cell phone. Prosecutors in the case believed Carruth hired Watkins and others to murder Adams because of her refusal to abort their unborn child. The defense claimed Carruth had been caught up in a drug deal gone bad.
Carruth, a first-round draft pick who had signed a four-year, $3.7 million contract and received a $1.3 million signing bonus and was earning $38,382 a game until the Panthers waived him on a morals clause in his contract, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in prison.
And it all happened right here......
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