Larry Webb’s deathbed confession solves 2000 cold-case murder of Susan and Natasha Carter, 10, whose remains were found hours after he died
Webb said he had gotten into an argument with Susan Carter, who was living in his home with her daughter, over money and shot her. He said he was missing cash and believed that she had taken it and spent it, Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Hatfield said.
After fatally shooting Susan, Webb said he “knew he had ruined his life forever,” investigators said, according to WSAZ.
He then shot little Alex dead so that there would be no witnesses.
“Once he had killed both individuals, he had stored them in the basement of the home where he cried himself to sleep that night. And then over the course of the next two nights, dug a shallow grave in the woods on his property,” Hatfield said, according to Fox News.
Webb was previously indicted for Alex’s death in October 2023 and was placed in custody earlier this month after the FBI took up the cold case in 2021, according to the local news station.
Investigators searched his home last year and found a bullet embedded in the wall of what was the girl’s bedroom, the station reported. The bullet was tested for DNA, which confirmed that blood on it belonged to the 10-year-old girl.
Webb reportedly confessed to the murders in a “come to Jesus” moment on his deathbed during the first week of April, West Virginia state police said, according to Fox.
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