Carlette Elizabeth Parker
In Raleigh, Carlette Parker was supposed to be taking care of 86-year-old
Alice Covington, but prosecutors said she was really stealing from the
elderly woman and eventually killed her [by drowning in the bathtub].
Parker, then a 34-year-old registered nurse assistant, did not make her
living caring for elderly people, but preying upon them. She was convicted
of kidnapping Covington from the Springmoor Retirement Home in Raleigh in
1998. Parker forced Covington to withdraw money from her bank account then
killed her. Police found Covington dead in her car in Research Triangle Park.
In 1995, Parker was convicted of bilking an elderly Garner woman out of
$40,000. Covington's death deeply affected many of the residents at
Springmoor retirement home. Many of them were in the courtroom as the trial
opened. Detectives said they searched Covington's car and found a stun gun
and pepper spray, items that probably were used in the abduction.
http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/public/sc/opinions/2001/556-99-1.htm
http://www.jfa.net/Benetton.htm
http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/rick-halperin/mar99/0201.html