Introducing Carruth

Part love story and part murder mystery, this is the remarkable tale of a "miracle" that began on Nov. 16, 1999, when a hitman tried to murder NFL star Rae Carruth's pregnant girlfriend. Hosted by Charlotte Observer reporter Scott Fowler, who has covered this saga for 19 years. Coming Oct. 16. Subscribe now.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Just after midnight on November twenty four, year old Sharik
Adams was shot in Charlotte, North Carolina. She'd gone to
a movies with her boyfriend, Ray Caruthe, who was at
that time of Carolina panther, and she was following him
home and car drove up beside her and one shot

(00:23):
in fullmost shots bam, bam, bam, bam. She's screaming. She
was drowned and all blood. I'm Scott Fowler, a reporter
for the Charlotte Observer, and for the past eighteen years
I've covered everything that came after that night, even shot.
Where are you at now on the eve of Ray

(00:49):
Carruth being released from prison, The Charlotte Observer and McClatchy
Studios take you beyond the story that shocked the sports world.
Sharck Adams his own son. But they were able to
deliver the baby, which yestly it's miraculously survived. Sarka was
in very bad trick fromentertainment were tragedy. She was able

(01:10):
to live for twenty eight days. Four questions was do
you think Ray was involved? And she just made a
question more, how was not there? I can't testify to anything.
Atmams tre Conray Road meets a grandmother's love. He has
cerebral policy because of the lack of boxes into the brain.
You got to help me, to help your sail. Where
are you? Ad argued these people to kill trek Adam.

(01:31):
I'm apologizing for the love of her daughter. I'm a
pologizing for the impairment of my truck. The legacy of Caeru.
I'm just so thankful I can associate November sixteenth with
the day my grandchild was born. Our boy coming October
sixteenth on Apple Podcasts, Charlotte Observer dot com, slash Caru

(01:52):
or wherever you get your favorite shows. You have a
birthday coming up? Yeah? Yeah, Do you know how old
you're gonna be? How I can't you see? That's right,