Charlotte, NC -- Five years ago, Rae Carruth made nearly $40,000 a game catching passes for the Carolina Panthers. His girlfriend, Cherica Adams, was eight months pregnant. Today, Carruth is an inmate ...

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 ...

After 19 years, former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth has offered new details about the night his pregnant girlfriend was shot, according to David Rudolf, who was Carruth’s primary ...

If the man who murdered your daughter later dies in prison, how would you feel about it? Saundra Adams, whose pregnant daughter Cherica Adams was killed in 1999 in one of Charlotte’s most heinous ...

NORTH CAROLINA -- Nearly two decades after hiring men to kill his pregnant girlfriend, former NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth walked out of prison a free man Monday. The Carolina Panthers' 1997 ...

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 ...