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Feb 21, 2019 · A man convicted in the murder of one woman was described at the time as potentially a serial killer. Investigators have since determined there is no evidence supporting Leonard Christopher...
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Leonard Christopher was convicted in the murder of one of the nine supposedly linked victims, but the others remain unsolved. All of the victims were sexually assaulted and stabbed to death. Several of the victims were seen with a middle-aged white man shortly before their murders.
- Christopher Mccowen
- Tony Jackett
- Tim Arnold
- Christopher Mason
- Robert George
- Robert Welsh III
- Gary Nickerson
- Peter Manso
- Michael O'Keefe
In November 2006, Christopher McCowen was convicted of the murder of Christa Worthington. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and is currently incarcerated at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater. He has consistently professed his innocence over the years, though various motions and appeals about the ve...
Tony Jackett, who fathered Christa Worthington's child, Ava,during a brief affair, is currently the Truro harbormaster and shellfish constable. He was recently involved in the dayslong effort to dislodge the New Bedford-based fishing trawler Carrabassett, after it grounded at Longnook Beach in Truro. In 2015, Jackett was interviewed for an ABC podc...
Tim Arnold dated Christa Worthingtonfor about a year before the relationship ended. He remained in touch with Worthington, however. At the time of the murder, Arnold's father lived on property that was near Worthington's house. Arnold discovered the crime scene when he returned to Worthington's house with a borrowed flashlight. While it appears tha...
As a state police detective,Christopher Masoninvestigated the murder of Christa Worthington and interviewed Christopher McCowen after his 2005 arrest. His unflappable testimony at the subsequent trial may have been instrumental in McCowen's conviction. During his time as a detective on the Cape and Islands, Mason was promoted to sergeant, then lieu...
It's been a bit of a bumpy ride for Christopher McCowen's defense attorney Robert George. In 2012,George was sentenced to 3½ years in prisonafter he was convicted in 2012 in U.S. District Court in Boston for helping a client launder hundreds of thousands of dollars in criminal proceeds. He was subsequently disbarred. George's license to practice la...
Robert Welsh III, who successfully prosecuted Christopher McCowen as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office, was nominated in 2006 by then-Gov. Mitt Romneyto be a district court circuit judge. Later that year, he was approved by the Governor's Council. He is currently First Justice of the Orleans District ...
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson,who presided over the murder trial of Christopher McCowen in 2006, retired from the bench in 2018. Regarding the McCowen case, Nickerson said he felt the pressure to meet the demands of the public, through the media, while guaranteeing the defendant a fair trial in a case that had captivated the nation...
Famed author Peter Manso, who attended the McCowen trialand subsequently wrote the book "Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, and the Trial of Chris McCowen," died at his Truro home in April 2021 at the age of 80. He was also known for his sprawling, extensively researched biographies of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando. Earlier Coverage:Cape Cod a...
Michael O'Keefe, who was first assistant district attorneyfor the Cape and Islands at the time of Christa Worthington's murder, was elected district attorney in November 2002. He has held that post ever since. Election 2022:Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe will not seek sixth term
- Cape Cod Times Staff Reporter
Jun 2, 2022 · In fact, Worthington’s body was discovered by an ex-boyfriend who remained a good friend, and she was feuding with her 72-year-old father, Christopher “Toppy” Worthington, over financial assets and his relationship with a 29-year-old who struggled with heroin addiction.
- Caitlin Flynn
Nov 24, 2017 · Worthington, a 46-year-old fashion writer and single mother, was found stabbed to death in her seaside cottage in Truro, Massachusetts, on Jan. 6, 2002, with her 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Ava, by her side, unharmed.
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Feb 2, 2023 · Leonard Christopher was a Black man who worked in the area. Some witnesses claimed they saw him walking with Dowd on the night she died, and other witnesses claimed they'd seen Christopher with a white suspect who matched a police sketch.
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The Frankford Slasher murdered women in the Frankford area of Philadelphia PA in 1985-1990. Some of the female victims who had been stabbed repeatedly were white. Their age varied from 28 years old to 68 years old.
