Murder victims are all to numerous in today's America, but some of them gain considerable, if temporary celebrity all the same.
Such was the case with attractive blond and blue-eyed retired New York fashion writer Christa Worthington, who in 2002 was beaten, raped and stabbed to death in her Cape Cod home. When she was found, her 2-year-old daughter was sitting beside her mother's partially clad body on the kitchen floor.
Worthington, 46, had enjoyed a successful career, writing for The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmo and ELLE in addition to authoring a few books on fashion.
The victim's father, a well to do attorney, put up a substantial reward, and finally, in 2005, a local trash collector with a long criminal record, Christopher McCowen, was arrested for the crime. He was found guilty and got a life sentence.
Worthington's tragic death was the topic of a 2003 book: Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod, by Maria Flook.
Due to the nature of the crime, the Worthington murder got enormous media coverage, but a few years later her name has pretty much faded from public memory.
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