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Worthington was stabbed to death at her home in Truro, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). Her body was found on January 6, 2002, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, clinging to it. The child was unharmed. On April 15, 2005, a local garbage collector, Christopher McCowen, was arrested and charged with her rape and murder. On November 16, 2006, he was ...
Aug 31, 2017 · With Jade Harlow, Josh Walther, Heather Egeli, Tim Misuradze. Based on the Christa Worthington case. An out of work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Arthur Egeli
- 2017-08-31
- No Shortage of Suspects
- A Stunning Break
- Mccowen on Trial
- The Verdict
- Epilogue
Christa Worthington's savage murder in January of 2002 left 2-year-old Ava without a mother, and it left the townspeople of Truro edgy, nervous and silently wondering if the killer might be one of them. "Who else would come down to the end of the world in January and do this?" Williams wonders. "You think, 'It's gotta be someone who is here, 'cause...
In the three years police were searching for Christa Worthington's killer, an uneasy peace settled over Cape Cod, as the investigation dragged on. Only the random DNA round-up got much public attention. "It's just needle in a haystack kind of stuff. It did seem to smack of some desperation," Williams remarks. Meanwhile, whole books were being writt...
Prosecutors go into Christopher McCowen's trial confident the jury will accept their simple theory of Christa Worthington's murder. "That he went to this location for the purpose of having sex with this person, that was denied to him, and in a rage, he raped and killed her," explains District Attorney Michael O'Keefe. The case against Christa's all...
While the jury in the Christa Worthington murder trial deliberated, the case was still being tried in the court of public opinion. And everyone in town's had an opinion. "I think the preponderance of the evidence indicates that he's guilty," one person said. "He deserves every bit of reasonable doubt if it's there," another said. Days went by and t...
For nearly 16 years, "48 Hours" has covered the aftermath of Christa Worthington's murder and Christopher McCowen's trial. Soon after his convicton, the verdict was called into question when several jurors made allegations of racial bias during their deliberations. That prompted the trial judge to take the unusual step of calling all 12 jurors back...
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Nov 24, 2017 · Chris McCowen, the man who was convicted of raping and murdering Christa Worthington, is speaking out about being at the center of what was then the biggest case to hit the Cape in decades.
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Nov 24, 2017 · Christopher McCowen is serving three concurrent terms of life in prison after being found guilty of first-degree murder with extreme atrocity, aggravated rape and aggravated armed burglary at ...
Aug 29, 2022 · Viswa Vanapalli. August 29, 2022. A gruesome murder in the sleepy town of Truro in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, led the authorities on a multi-year investigation with a long list of suspects. The inquiry into Christa Worthington’s sudden death was not made easy by her complicated personal life.
Jun 2, 2022 · On January 6, 2002, Christa Worthington was found raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in her Cape Cod home. Her two-year-old daughter, Ava, who was physically unharmed, clung to Worthington’s body; the toddler’s mother had been dead for up to 36 hours.
