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Untitled[edit]

64.8.190.51, a persistent vandal, has changed "eight months pregnant" to "seven months pregnant". I didn't know which is right so I didn't want to revert it. Can anyone verify the real number? delldot | talk 19:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

8 months [1]. Psychobabble 04:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference, the baby was apparently 10 weeks early, making Cherica 30 weeks pregnant at the time. Sky83 (talk) 15:05, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Picture?[edit]

How about posting a picture of him? Thanks! The Sanity Inspector 01:46, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since the mugshot is a state photo is it public domain? BobbyAFC 22:25, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alleged?[edit]

Why is it Alleged criminal history? His criminal acts have been proven and he has been convicted! It should read criminal history or at least the proven aspects of the crime should be separated. --Boller4president (talk) 13:26, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cherica Adams[edit]

I do understand that the murder is the only thing that makes her important to the mainstream, but it seems to me like there is enough information about her to warrant a separate page and that it does her a great disservice to have her name redirect to the page of her murderor---and that is what most of this page is about as well. I think she deserves her own page, and would be much more respectful. BMSprint (talk) 02:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I dont know for sure if Id give her a seperate page, but I would certainly not redirect her page to that of her killer. At least make a page for the "Rae Carruth/Cherica Adams Murder Case or something, not just to a page about the guy who killed her. Thats cold man, thats cold 74.109.112.8 (talk) 22:47, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, and strongly so. She was not a celebrity or notable figure by any means, save for being married to a NFL player. We should not simply give every person who passes away a Wikipedia page, or else that will open up new cans of worms. 173.65.183.123 (talk) 11:44, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Destroying an unborn child[edit]

I know this is probably just an erroneous charge added on by the cops, but how did he get charged with this(destroying an unborn child) when the baby was successfully delivered? The mother died a month later, more than enough time for the doctors to have saved her life. Did Rae Carruth actually fire the shots? If not, I don't see how he can be charged with 1st degree. If anything, he was merely an accomplice, maybe manslaughter at the worst. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfy9005 (talk • contribs) 10:46, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Spend less time on Wikipedia and more time obtaining an actual education. Carruth solicited the murder of his girlfriend and his child, paying Watkins and Kennedy to perform the actual killing. That's not manslaughter, that is a dictionary-ready example of premeditated first degree murder. That Carruth was able to slither out of taking full responsibility for his crimes is a result of the legal skills that an NFL player can afford to hire, and had nothing to do with justice.

He was charged with using a weapon to destroy an unborn child, which is what happened. The fact that the child survived doesn't negate the fact that a weapon was used in an attempt to kill him. The whole reason this hit was contracted was to kill the child and the mother after all. As for the first degree charge, he contracted someone to kill Cherica and the child. That indicates more planning and intent than a manslaughter charge is meant to cover. Just because he didn't fire the shots doesn't mean all that much. After all, those shots would not have been fired if he did not contract someone to fire them. He essentially used those other people as a weapon.108.213.241.108 (talk) 17:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Rae Carruth/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I corrected one line in the Carruth bio -- he was arrested in Parkers Crossroads, Tenn., not Johnson City. Wrong end of the state. I work at The Jackson Sun, 25 miles or so down the road from where Carruth was arrested, and it was one of our photographers who had the first pictures of him after his arrest. We may also have been the paper that had the first story on his arrest, but I don't recall that with 100 percent certainty this many years later.

Last edited at 05:07, 22 November 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 03:49, 30 April 2016 (UTC)