Classmate 40+ Years Murder Cold Case Solved

[Foggy]

In March 1980 a classmate was abducted and murdered.
Even though there is now closure from the "cold case" there will not be any charges filed against the murderer.
Read the story below and see if "justice has been served!"

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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Florida is reporting the closure of a cold case from 1980 that involved Carol Ann Barrett of Zanesville.

On Sunday, March 23, 1980, Carol Ann Barrett, 18, was visiting Daytona Beach while on Spring Break from Zanesville, Ohio with a group of high school friends. At approximately 2am, Carol was abducted by an unknown assailant from the Treasure Island Motel, in Daytona Beach Shores. After interviewing Carol’s friends that had been in the room at the time of the kidnapping, a police sketch of the suspect was completed.

On Monday, March 24, 1980, Carol’s lifeless body (nude from the waist up) was discovered by a passerby in a ditch line along I-95 near Pecan Park Road in Jacksonville, Florida.

Following an autopsy, Carol’s death was ruled a Homicide. Tragically, the case went “cold” after years of work by detectives with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office along with the original jurisdiction.

In August of 2017, Carol’s case was revisited and ultimately re-opened by members of the JSO’s Cold Case Unit after reviewing all available evidence.

In 2020, a person of interest that had been formulated, Billy Mansfield, Jr., 65, was ultimately identified as the suspect in Carol Barrett’s murder. Mansfield would have been 24 at the time of Carol’s Murder.

In September of 2022, after multiple interviews spanning two years, Billy Mansfield advised that he was in fact the suspect in the police sketch completed following the abduction. He went on to confess to the abduction from the Daytona Beach Shores hotel, as well as to her murder shortly thereafter.

Throughout the course of the follow-up investigation, the State Attorney's Office in the 4th Judicial Circuit was consulted with. Following the more than quarter-century investigation into Carol’s murder, it has been determined the SAO would not seek prosecution as Billy Mansfield will remain in prison in California on one life sentence for Murder, as well as four concurrent life sentences in Florida for Murder in separate cases.

Billy Mansfield continues to cooperate with detectives in other jurisdictions regarding additional Cold Cases.


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Billy Mansfield

William Mansfield, Jr. (born 1956) is an American serial killer, child molester and sex offender, responsible for the murders of five women and girls between 1975 and 1980.

To read more on him, but it could be very upsetting to read
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mansfield

[80sTrivia]

Very harrowing story! I certainly am glad the evil monster responsible will die in prison, even if he was never convicted of your classmate's horrifying murder!