Post by MXB on Aug 26, 2007 0:56:23 GMT -5
A psychotic chef -- who worked double shifts, slept on a cot at work and asked coworkers not to let him go outside because he might do "bad things" -- may be a serial killer linked to several murders in the Atlanta area dating back 15 years. Charles Lendelle Carter has been charged with four murders and investigators believe there may be others.
After a 40-year-old single Alpharetta, Georgia, mother was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her condo, Carter was linked to the crime by video game equipment and DVDs he stole from her condo and later pawned. When police picked him up for questioning in the murder of Lisa Rosenthal, he began talking about other crimes.
"He's psychotic," Fulton County police homicide investigator Glenn Kalish told reporters. "Without question, he's the most disturbed person I've ever come across. I honestly believe there are more bodies out there. He is just so deeply disturbed, for whatever reason, that killing is just a part of his life."
More Murder Victims
In addition to the murder of Rosenthal, Carter has been charged in the following cases:
Apriel Allen, 38, an Atlanta mother of three who was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in Oct. 20, 2004. After he was arrested for the Rosenthal murder, DNA linked Carter to Allen's murder.
Angela Thayer Green, 35, of Norcross, Georgia, disappeared the day after Christmas 2005. Her body was found a day later at the apartment of a friend who once dated Carter. She had been beaten and strangled.
Michael Leon Sneed, 35, of DeKalb County was abducted from a gas station in March 16, 1992. He was robbed, shot several times and his body dumped behind a high school where it was later found by joggers. Police say Carter confessed to the Sneed murder after he was arrested.
Tried to Confess
Carter is listed as a "person of interest" but not yet charged with the May 2003 murder of a Henry County teen. Brittany LeAnn King, 16, left home to go to the movies and was found eight days later in an abandoned house. A car left behind the house has been linked to Carter.
Detective Kalish believes Carter wanted to confess to all of his crimes to get it off his chest. He asked Kalish to bring his mother, father and sister to the police station so he could tell them what he had done.
As he began to talk, his mother told him to shut up and get an attorney. "But Mom, I need to tell you," Carter said. Again, she told him to keep quiet.
After a 40-year-old single Alpharetta, Georgia, mother was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her condo, Carter was linked to the crime by video game equipment and DVDs he stole from her condo and later pawned. When police picked him up for questioning in the murder of Lisa Rosenthal, he began talking about other crimes.
"He's psychotic," Fulton County police homicide investigator Glenn Kalish told reporters. "Without question, he's the most disturbed person I've ever come across. I honestly believe there are more bodies out there. He is just so deeply disturbed, for whatever reason, that killing is just a part of his life."
More Murder Victims
In addition to the murder of Rosenthal, Carter has been charged in the following cases:
Apriel Allen, 38, an Atlanta mother of three who was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in Oct. 20, 2004. After he was arrested for the Rosenthal murder, DNA linked Carter to Allen's murder.
Angela Thayer Green, 35, of Norcross, Georgia, disappeared the day after Christmas 2005. Her body was found a day later at the apartment of a friend who once dated Carter. She had been beaten and strangled.
Michael Leon Sneed, 35, of DeKalb County was abducted from a gas station in March 16, 1992. He was robbed, shot several times and his body dumped behind a high school where it was later found by joggers. Police say Carter confessed to the Sneed murder after he was arrested.
Tried to Confess
Carter is listed as a "person of interest" but not yet charged with the May 2003 murder of a Henry County teen. Brittany LeAnn King, 16, left home to go to the movies and was found eight days later in an abandoned house. A car left behind the house has been linked to Carter.
Detective Kalish believes Carter wanted to confess to all of his crimes to get it off his chest. He asked Kalish to bring his mother, father and sister to the police station so he could tell them what he had done.
As he began to talk, his mother told him to shut up and get an attorney. "But Mom, I need to tell you," Carter said. Again, she told him to keep quiet.