Farrah Carter Murder Solved After 19 Years
The cold case dating back to 2002 has been cracked and a suspect apprehended, Florida police say.
A cold case murder from 2002 has been solved at last after DNA taken from the crime scene was matched to a suspect using a national database.
Farrah Carter was just 15 years old when she was murdered at her family’s home in Miramar, Florida that May 22nd. Her mother Kim Battle had returned home shortly before 8:30 PM to discover the living room covered in blood and the furniture in disarray.
She called 911 and police quickly arrived to find blood in almost every room of the house and, to their horror, Farrah’s mutilated body lying crumpled in her bedroom. Detectives would later describe it as one of the most horrific crime scenes they had ever come across, with the teenager having been stabbed multiple times and receiving significant injuries to her neck in particular.
Although Farrah ultimately lost her life, investigators realised she had put up an enormous fight against her attacker. There had clearly been a struggle in the living room where a chair had been knocked over, a glass smashed and a couch pushed up against the blinds before she was overpowered.
