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Rae Carruth, a former NFL star who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murder of his girlfriend and attempting to destroy their unborn child almost 20 years ago, was released from prison Monday morning.
Carruth, 44, walked out of the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, North Carolina, as a free man shortly after 8 am ET. He got into a white Chevrolet Tahoe that was waiting for him, which quickly pulled away.
A former Carolina Panthers wide receiver, Carruth spoke to CNN affiliate WSOC by phone days ahead of his release. "I'm excited about just being out of here," Carruth said to the station. "I'm nervous just about how I'll be received by the public. I still have to work. I still have to live. I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me."
Carruth will serve nine months post-release supervision, according to Jerry Higgins, spokesman for North Carolina Department of Corrections. Higgins said Carruth is required to perform regular check-ins with his parole officer as a part of his post-release supervision.
On November 16, 1999, 24-year-old Cherica Adams, who was 8 months pregnant, and Carruth, in his third season with the Panthers, went on a movie date. Afterward, they left in separate cars, with Carruth driving ahead of Adams.
While Adams was driving through Charlotte, a car pulled up next to her BMW. Shots were fired, and she was hit four times. Prosecutors said Carruth used his vehicle to block Adams' car so a hired gunman could shoot her.
Adams managed to stop her car and call 911 on her cell phone. Doctors were able to perform an emergency cesarean section to save the baby, but Adams died four weeks after the shooting. The baby, Chancellor Lee Adams, was born with cerebral palsy. He is now 18 years old and is cared for by Saundra Adams, Cherica's mother.
After a nationwide manhunt, Carruth was captured in Tennessee in December 1999 and arrested for a second time. He was found hiding in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a Best Western in Wildersville, which is about 100 miles northeast from Memphis.
Yeah, its funny how the public is 'negative' toward murderers.
He murdered the mother of his child and severely harmed his child, that tends to lead toward hate and negativity.
wow, 20 years ago. Wish him well, honestly. While it will never change what he did or bring her back, he paid his debt according to the justice system. 20 years in your prime is a long time. Hopefully he has rehabbed and will try to make something of his life.
Quote: @greediron said:
Hopefully he has rehabbed and will try to make something of his life.
Good for you for having that sentiment (really, not kidding).
My visceral, first reaction is how did this POS not get life?
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
@ greediron said:
Hopefully he has rehabbed and will try to make something of his life.
Good for you for having that sentiment (really, not kidding).
My visceral, first reaction is how did this POS not get life?
Had a great uncle or something that ended up doing long hard time for a stupid act in his youth. It was in the depression and he and another guy robbed a guy and left him tied up and gagged. The guy died because of this and he (my relative) was a hick in the big city, so he got the book thrown at him. Spent 20 years or so of his young life in prison for a robbery that ended up costing a guy his life. Family finally got a politician from ND to help secure his release after 20 years, otherwise he would have done life.
Not exactly the same, but Carruth paid his debt (not a mere slap on the wrist) and should be allowed some mercy IMO. His act was despicable and pre-meditated, so life could have been an option. But since it wasn't, I would rather wish the guy well and hope for a good person to emerge rather than hate them. Of course it wasn't my child that was murdered, so I am not talking about her family. Just the general public.
Both of these are bad. But one was a robbery that turned into murder via the felony-murder rule -- the death occurred during the commission of a felony. But there was no intent to kill; the intent was to rob.
The other was a deliberate intent to kill a another person. And not just any other person -- his girlfriend ... who was pregnant. Why would he do this? To avoid child support payments?
I understand young and stupid. But that's the depression-era robbery. The murder for hire sounds more sociopathic. I am less tolerant of that. Does he even feel any remorse? Is he sorry only for himself and because he got caught? For me, the primary reason to want Caruth to get along is so he does not do something similar in the future. If he is indeed a sociopath, he is quite capable of doing it again if he thinks he can get away with it.
Quote: @dadevike said:
Both of these are bad. But one was a robbery that turned into murder via the felony-murder rule -- the death occurred during the commission of a felony. But there was no intent to kill; the intent was to rob.
The other was a deliberate intent to kill a another person. And not just any other person -- his girlfriend ... who was pregnant. Why would he do this? To avoid child support payments?
I understand young and stupid. But that's the depression-era robbery. The murder for hire sounds more sociopathic. I am less tolerant of that. Does he even feel any remorse? Is he sorry only for himself and because he got caught? For me, the primary reason to want Caruth to get along is so he does not do something similar in the future. If he is indeed a sociopath, he is quite capable of doing it again if he thinks he can get away with it.
I get the difference, just saying, I hope he has reformed and wish him well. Hopefully he contributes to society now that he has "paid" his debt.
Quote: @greediron said:
@ dadevike said:
Both of these are bad. But one was a robbery that turned into murder via the felony-murder rule -- the death occurred during the commission of a felony. But there was no intent to kill; the intent was to rob.
The other was a deliberate intent to kill a another person. And not just any other person -- his girlfriend ... who was pregnant. Why would he do this? To avoid child support payments?
I understand young and stupid. But that's the depression-era robbery. The murder for hire sounds more sociopathic. I am less tolerant of that. Does he even feel any remorse? Is he sorry only for himself and because he got caught? For me, the primary reason to want Caruth to get along is so he does not do something similar in the future. If he is indeed a sociopath, he is quite capable of doing it again if he thinks he can get away with it.
I get the difference, just saying, I hope he has reformed and wish him well. Hopefully he contributes to society now that he has "paid" his debt.
I'm not questioning your hopeful and forgiving outlook. It is admirable. All I know of Caruth is what he did - I have never met or spoken to him. But if he is a sociopath, I do not think he can ever be reformed.
what a idiot he was a good player that was on the uprisee in terms of talent what an asswipe
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