Ashlee O'Connell
02/20/09
4:21 PM
For the past 11 years after the robbery and murder of a German tourist in Santa Monica, CA, Paul Edmond Carpenter has been living a double life in Kingston, Jamaica using the name Jermaine Thomas. However, last week, Thomas’ intricate web of lies has finally been unraveled. On October 12, 1998, two men and a woman approached Horst Fietze and shot him because of mis-communication when they demanded money from him. Fietze died on the spot with his wife by his side. The shooter, the getaway car driver, and the female accomplice (said to be Carpenter’s girlfriend) were all caught by January 1999. In 2007, the FBI asked the public for help in finally solving the crime. They offered a $20,000 reward and featured the case on “America’s Most Wanted.” The reward generated a lot of leads. Two years later, on February 11, 2009, the case is finally closed and Carpenter will be charged with one count of murder and three counts of robbery, even though he himself did not pull the trigger (because of California laws).
You see cases of crime like this on television on shows like CSI and Law and Order. But the cases are solved within the half an hour or hour long show. It is crazy to think that in real life some cases can take over ten years to be finalized or even be left unsolved. We live in a crazy world where anything can happen. You could be robbed on the street one day by a stranger and potentially meet another stranger the next who could be your future husband. Crime is something that is never-ending. However, it is scary to think that cases like this can be left unsolved and that a murderer has been out walking for the past 11 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497525,00.html
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