Saturday, March 08, 2008

Find this murderer

These are two images released by the Chapel Hill (North Carolina) Police Department of a "person of interest" in the murder of Eve Carson.
This "person of interest" was using Eve Carson's ATM card and, it appears, Eve Carson's SUV.
Something about this case has touched a nerve with me, more than all the other random murders that take place every day. By all accounts, Eve Carson was a person of "unlimited promise" - one of those rare and special people who have the potential to change the world completely. Her biography shows someone who had accomplished more in her twenty-two years than most of us will accomplish in our lifetimes. And she was just getting started.

This is the same sort of hat seen in the images. The killer wore a hat like this over a very large afro, all tucked under a hood. (According to this site, this is a Houston Astros 1965-style hat, though that style may have been used since then.)
And now she is dead. Killed because someone had a gun, and a bullet, and was willing to use it to snuff out the life of a random girl - for what? Some money? A car? Just for fun?

Photo manipulation: Remove hat, extend hair across head (assuming consistent length), fill in eyebrow, duplicate eye. Is this the face of Eve Carson's killer?

Somebody knows who this guy is. Somebody has seen him, has talked to him. He went to school somewhere, bought cigarettes somewhere, bought beer somewhere, got his hair cut somewhere, took a piss somewhere, hung out somewhere. He's somebody's son, maybe somebody's brother, somebody's friend.

A second extrapolation, using a skightly different technique and applying a different assumption about the eyebrows and eyes. This version looks somewhat older than the first version.

And he is Eve Carson's murderer.

Somebody needs to find him.

5 comments:

Super G said...

Living in Chapel Hill, this is very sad, and may be part of poorly addressed part of rising crime. A significant element of violent crime is spill over gang activity from Durham (which has a significant gang problem).

This looked and sounded like a car jacking, but the actual time of day is unusual.

We are friends with a past Student Body President from UNC that was a friend of the deceased and she had only positive things to say about the girl.

I believe that there is a very good chance they will find this guy within the next week or so if he hasn't fled the area. This kind of photo plus the generally unique hat are likely to have this guy identified pretty rapidly. His picture has been in the newspapers and TV and probably will be for days.

The gang problem is a bit of a pet peeve, because I fear gang violence many more times than I fear a terrorist attack and with the kind of money we through around, we could do something about gang activity.

D.B. Echo said...

SuperG, looks like that's a retro-style Houston Astros cap.

Super G said...

You are right, the hat has been supposedly (it's really rumor mongering at this point) link to a specific gang. There's too much unsubstantiated rumors going around right now to know what is really happening.

G

Anonymous said...

You know, the title of your blog takes on an extra special significance when it comes to this story.

D.B. Echo said...

James, only if you're a racist asshole, I suppose.

The meaning of the title of my blog is given in my introductory post.