Murder on the Cape
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It's a small seaside town, just about at the end of Cape Cod, and in the winter time, it's a really quiet place. The people that live here, you're around this, everyone pretty much knows one another. I never wanted to live anywhere else. It's just a beautiful place to hang out unless something really awful happens. Police are trying to solve the first murder in a small Cape Cod town in more than 30 years. The victim, a local writer named Krista Worthington, was found inside this house in Truro on Sunday. Krista Worthington was found stabbed once through the left chest, missing the heart, piercing the lung, and the knife made an exit wound in her back and went into the kitchen floor below her. Worthington's two-year-old daughter was also at the house on Sunday and witnessed the attack, but she was not hurt. The details that we heard about apparently Abe attempting to clean her mother's body and finding a child's room with blood on it and things like that, that was really, really hard to take. The horror that came into this quiet house in the wintertime at the end of the world and just blew up these little wonderful lives. My name is Eric Williams. I'm a reporter with the Cape Cod Times, and I've covered this case from the beginning. I'd say she had a very easy smile. She had a wide-eyed wonderment about the world. She was a mom. She was a great mom. Her whole being lit up just by being with her daughter, Ava. She was a flirt, and I could tell that there was an attraction. I'm Tony Jacket. I had an affair with Krista Worthington, and we had a child together, Ava Worthington. She wasn't solved right away. It is a murder mystery that continues to haunt Cape Cod. I think people were spooked. Who is this person that did it? Where are they? I mean, are they a local? People around here are getting very anxious. And time went on and sort of rotating cast of potential suspects were trotted out. We got Tony Jacket, the father of Ava. He's disturbing to be a murder suspect. Tony Son-in-law Keith Amato, who was a person whose name came up, the guy who found the body Tim Arnold. Krista was an easy person to love and sometimes a difficult person to be around. I think there was the feeling like we're never going to know whether this was your next door neighbor. That arrest and the murder of Krista Worthington. I mean, that was a shock. That was out of the blue. They arrested a guy. I mean, could you believe it? This was a great mystery. How could a single mom be executed in her kitchen in January in Cape Cod? Yeah, I love it no more than a time because it is quiet and I like the cold weather.
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48 Hours has covered the murder of A-list fashion writer Christa Worthington for nearly 16 years.