Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Van Brett Watkins, the hitman who always maintained he was hired by former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth to commit one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the man who murdered your daughter later dies in prison, how would you feel about it? Saundra Adams, whose pregnant daughter ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All eyes were on Charlotte 18 years ago, when the murder trial against former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth began. The stories that came out of the trial managed to shock and sadden ...

On a dark night in Charlotte 25 years ago, Chancellor Lee Adams’ life began in blood and chaos. His pregnant mother, Cherica Adams, saved the life of her unborn son in 1999 with a remarkable 12-minute ...

Many years after the fact, with Rae Carruth close to being released from prison, Carruth’s lawyer told the Charlotte Observer’s Scott Fowler that Carruth offered him new details for where he was the ...

Van Brett Watkins, the hitman who always maintained he was hired by former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth to commit one of Charlotte’s most notorious crimes, has died in a North Carolina ...

Van Brett Watkins considers a question asked by defense attorney David Rudolf on Dec. 20, 2000, in Charlotte, during the capital murder trial of Rae Carruth. Watkins was convicted for shooting Cherica ...