Carmen Berrocal was murdered on June 25, 1989. A week prior, Carmen had graduated from West Catholic High School. On the evening of June 24, 1989, Carmen and her boyfriend Steven McNamee, were attending a graduation party. After the party, Carmen decided to walk home alone around 4am. Later that morning just before 11am, a young girl playing near Cobbs Creek discovered Carmen's body and ran screaming to her parents. Carmen was floating face down. She was naked from the waist up and her clothing was floating next to her. The coroner listed her cause of death as ligature strangulation. She had also been sexually assaulted. A DNA swab of semen was taken from Carmen's body, but the technology was not advanced enough to do anything with it. Despite some leads and various interviews, there wasn't much to go on and the case fizzled out. Six months after the murder, Carmen's high school ring, with her name inscribed on the inside, was recovered at a pawn shop. Police traced it to a plumber who said he'd found it while doing work on a house. After additional questioning, the man was released. The case remained cold for 15 years, until November 2004, when homicide prosecutor Jude Conroy, who had known someone in Carmen's neighborhood, encouraged detectives to re-examine the DNA evidence. When the DNA was re-run through the database, it came back with a match to a man named Raymond Williams. Williams was already in prison serving life for the 1992 shooting death of a man inside a bar. In January 2005, he was charged with murder, rape, robbery, and other offenses related to Carmen's death. Police also determined that the house in which Carmen's high school ring had been found was owned by Williams' brother. Once Williams learned that his DNA had been found on Carmen's body, detectives gave him the option of avoiding the death penalty by confessing. Williams agreed, but told detectives he'd met Carmen on a train and that she consented to sex. The account was quickly determined to be false, and the more likely scenario that Williams simply hid and waited in the darkness for a helpless victim was accepted. Williams pleaded guilty to the charges and was spared the death penalty. He was given a life sentence with no possibility of parole. Carmen was 18 years old. #grave #cemetery #mausoleum #graves #cemeteries #cemeteryexplorer #cemeteryexplorers #famous #famouspeople #famousgraves #famousgrave #graveyard #gravephotographer #gravestone #gravestones #taphophile #taphophilia #celebritygraves #murder #murdervictim #murdervictims #murdervictimsawareness #unsolved #unsolvedcases #unsolvedcasefiles #unsolvedcrime #unsolvedcrimes #truecrimetiktok #truecrime #truecrimecommunity #truecrimetok - @famousgraveco