Carmen Gayheart
Facts of the Crime:
Anthony Wainwright and Richard Hamilton escaped from a North Carolina prison, stole guns and a Cadillac then traveled to Florida. On April 27, 1994, the car overheated in Lake City, Florida. At this point, they kidnapped Carmen Gayheart, a young mother of two, at gunpoint from a Winn-Dixie parking lot and stole her Ford Bronco. The two men raped and strangled Gayheart and then shot her twice in the back of the head. On April 28, 1994, Wainwright and Hamilton were arrested in Mississippi after a shootout with police. Upon capture, Wainwright admitted to authorities that after kidnapping and robbing Gayheart, he raped her, despite that fact that he has AIDS. Wainwright denied he was involved in the strangling and shooting of the victim.
Wainwright was sentenced to death in Hamilton County on June 12, 1995.
Co-defendant information:
Richard Hamilton was convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery, armed kidnapping and armed sexual battery. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Carmen Gayheart and to life imprisonment on the other convictions. For more on Hamilton, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...milton+florida
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