The weeping of the women on Cherica Adams's side of the courtroom was immediate and audible and joyous. Rae didn't grow up with his biological father. Saundra Adams, Cherica's mother, also said Carruth had talked to Cherica about an abortion. Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Carruth attended Valley High School. Monique was innocently cute. He promised. Little Rae asked his mother. Take even a cursory look at how Rae Carruth went from first-round NFL draft pick to ward of the state of North Carolina, serving a quarter century of hard time for conspiring to commit the most horrific crime in the history of professional sports, and the question is not how it could happen but when is it going to happen again. "That's why it didn't work out," he said. Amber had overheard him talking about the same thing to a friend. Carruth did not support Wright or … She had the abortion. Michelle wasn't surprised at his indecision. He played four seasons for the Buffaloes and was named a first-team All-American in 1996. And I swear, she believed it. One other detail of the scene escaped the woman's notice. Carruth all but neglected Raelondo until Wright sued him for child support. When Cherica got pregnant, his world began to close in. Out the smoked windows in the back of the courtroom, black clouds huddled on command and great Gothic spills of water tumbled out of the Southern sky as Judge Charles Lamm pronounced the verdict of a jury of Rae's peers: guilty of three of four counts, including conspiracy to commit murder. What is former NFL player Rae Carruth doing now that he is out of prison? But what is it really doing? What the Men's Club lacks in poetry it makes up for in excess. But Rae's face flinched not at all. And what of the parents? Rae was also having sex with an exotic dancer who was having an affair with Charles Shackleford, a former Charlotte Hornet who happened to be married with three children, but it was Cherica whom Rae got pregnant, in March 1999—exactly one year after he and Amber conceived their second child. Carruth went on to sign a deal worth $3.7 million with the team along with a $1.3 million bonus for signing included in the same. At Colorado, Rae's coach Bill McCartney was a demagogue. They'd have heard Rae's car pull forward and disappear up Rea Road*, and Kennedy making a U-turn to go the other way, and Cherica's BMW weaving down a side street until it crawled to a stop on someone's lawn and she bled out her life onto the front seat. This is how she describes him. And then, as she left the stand, she looked right at Rae—a man facing the death penalty for taking out a hit on a pregnant woman—looked right into his eyes and, all sweet and wet, mouthed the words I love you. He blocked the front.". Grow up quick. Rae's college athletic achievements were legendary—in one game alone, he had seven receptions for 222 yards and three touchdowns. Any plans to get back with the Panthers? But she did remember one more thing: how after Cherica repeated Rae's license-plate number to the 911 operator, after she pleaded with the operator to save her life, Cherica had had the presence of mind to carefully place the cell phone back on the dashboard. No one could have seen Michael Kennedy's rented Nissan Maxima pulling up alongside Cherica. Cherica was conscious when the ambulance arrived at the hospital. Though, he is 1.8 m tall, he weighs about 88 kg. Carruth told WSOC-TV in a phone interview days before his release that he wished that Saundra Adams had brought Chancellor Lee to see him before his prison sentence ended. Soon after her admission to the hospital, she fell into a coma. Carruth got sued for child support after all but abandoning his son, … Check out some of our favorites so far. This new coterie included a man named Michael Kennedy, who had dealt crack, and a man named Van Brett Watkins, who had once set a man on fire in the joint and stabbed his own brother. Michelle Wright watched the trial on television, watched as Candace, Starlita, Dawnyle, Monique, Fonda, and Amber took the stand, and told Little Rae about all the pretty women. Unable to speak, she motioned for a notepad and described the way Rae slowed down in front of her. In roughly eight months, ex-Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth is set to be released from a minimum security prison, after serving 17 years for conspiracy to murder his pregnant girlfriend. As a child, Rae split time among several houses, including his mother's, set in a neighborhood of squalor and dismay on the south side of Sacramento—on an avenue where vandals routinely set cars aflame—and her sister's place in a nicer part of town, absent the bars on the windows. His sporting career ended when in 2001 when he was convicted … Sometimes, though, Rae nodded at the woman in the front pew. Further, he started playing for the Buffaloes, which was He was polite and civilized and kind. He didn't carry out all the threats, of course. Within days of being signed, Rae got a check for $15,000 in the mail from a trading-card company. Amber went home after that first season. It was called the Rae of Hope room. Watkins, too, had unusual ways of showing love to his women. Or if she just got in, like, a car accident, or something happened to her, I could have my son and I wouldn't have to pay her money?". Rae's mom, Theodry, was pleased, too—pleased that her only son would be living in a Southern town with family values. He was a joker. Really, there was no other way to think of them—other than as a cult—at least not after the mother of one of Rae's former girlfriends took the stand near the end of the trial, and the mother was gorgeous. The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth. He was picked by the team Carolina Panthers. Rae Carruth grew up in Sacramento, California, ... Michelle Wright, the mother of Carruth's six-year-old son, also testified to having been threatened by Carruth. Michelle Wright, another former girlfriend, testified that she had a son with Carruth six years ago. When Cherica got pregnant, his world began to close in. Their names are as false as their chests. They claimed that on the night of the shooting, after Carruth had refused to fund the drug deal, Watkins shot Adams in a sudden rage when she "flipped him off" after he had attempted to ask her about Carruth's whereabouts. That son, like Chancellor Lee, never visited Carruth in prison, however, according to his mother, Michelle Wright. This, of course, explains why Rae sought them out. This is why she describes herself as "the piranha" when it comes to protecting her son. The state also called Michelle Wright and Amber Turner, two other former girlfriends of Carruth. Not with Adams, or with his first child’s mother, Michelle Wright, who has said that Carruth rarely saw their son, who was born in 1994 during … The Panthers gave him a four-year contract worth $3.7 million and a $1.3 million signing bonus, and it wasn't so much the amount of money that was stunning but the ease with which it came. No one could have known the exact location, even if anyone had been looking, even if someone had been awake and heard the hush of tires on pavement down the road. They are stage actors. After playing college football at Colorado, Carruth was drafted in the first round of the 1997 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) and spent three seasons with the team. Football is a violent sport, growing far more violent and mean and attitudinal every year, and it has been played by men who have traditionally been violent against their women. He'd waffled about whether or not to have the baby from day to day. Then everyone would turn to the back of the courtroom to get a look at the newest entrant, because we just knew she was going to be beautiful. So some months later, when Amber called from Boulder to say she was pregnant after her five-day visit and Rae insisted she get an abortion, insisted he was not going to have any more kids by women he had no intention of being with, well, how could Amber be surprised when he said what he said to her? Carruth felt differently. Rae came to the door naked. Wept on the stand, at the pure goodness of the man. Soon thereafter, at McCartney's urgings, tens of thousands of fathers and husbands took to gathering in football stadiums across the land to beat their chests and flagellate their souls and collectively recommit to their gender. Or just my son, so that I wouldn't have to pay her any money? She offered to lessen it if Rae would come home and visit more. Brown, who has never been convicted of a single charge, begat O. J., the second-greatest running back, who, at this writing, continues to seek out Nicole's true killers. But she wouldn't give me her name, and she wouldn't open the door more than a few inches, just far enough to flick out her cigarette ashes. This seemed curious at the time, but it doesn't seem curious anymore. Wright was the mother of Carruth’s other son, who was born five years before Chancellor Lee. Rae Lamar Wiggins was born on January 20, 1974, in Sacramento, California. Broke his promise, if you will. As for Walker, he played for Tennessee last year after being convicted of hitting the mother of his son. Dawnyle certainly was. Rae Carruth ordered the killing of Cherica Adams when she was eight months pregnant. Just, as the bailiff led him for the last time past his women, a slight nod—at Tnisha, whose expression was confused, and at Theodry, who was already steeling herself to be strong, and at the rest of the women, who were looking toward him with whatever expressions they could muster. When the NFL parades its first-round draft picks to a podium on national television and slathers them in their first frosting of celebrity, its message effectively and immediately neutralizes all the good-behavior seminars. During Carruth's sophomore year at Colorado, his girlfriend, Michelle Wright, gave birth to their son Raelondo. Despite a terrific rookie season on the field—Rae earned a starting position at wide receiver and finished with an impressive forty-four receptions—Rae's home life soon proved rocky. There was Fonda Bryant, who kept a picture of her son on her desk at a radio station Rae visited one day, and before long the boy was spending nights at Rae's. His most recent book is Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders, which was excerpted on Deadspin. They arrested him. By now Rae's circle of male friends had expanded. And honestly, she just about always was. The lobby boutique is filled with expensive clothes for men and women. In the center of the place, beyond the sunken bar, is the main stage. It wasn't just Irvin who dodged a bullet that time. There was Starlita, whom Rae had so charmed in a barbershop one day that before she'd finished having her hair done, Rae had taken her young son down the street for pizza. Rae was exactly what the boy needed; Rae was firm about staying away from alcohol and drugs, firm about making sure the boy did his homework. As the weeks passed and the women came and went, I would look over at Rae and stare at his profile, which never changed, because Rae never changed expressions, even during the closing argument, when the lead prosecutor played the 911 tape of Cherica Adams's moans: sounds from beyond the grave, all sputtering utterances, atonal syllables so skin-crawling that throughout the courtroom shoulders heaved in sobs. He was tired of being victimized, tired of having these women sucking out his sperm, tired of being rewarded for all his kindness by predators and gold diggers. Rae Carruth was born on 20th January 1974 in Sacramento, California, USA. Carruth went to the police and posted $3 million bail, on condition that if either Adams or the infant died, he would turn himself in. They found him lying in the coffin-dark trunk of a gray '97 Toyota Camry in the parking lot of a $36-a-night motel in Tennessee, surrounded by candy bars and two water bottles filled with urine and a cell phone and a couple thousand in cash. [7], On November 16, 1999, near Carruth's home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cherica Adams, a real estate agent he had been casually dating, was shot four times from a .357 caliber Charter Arms revolver by Van Brett Watkins Sr., a nightclub manager and an associate of Carruth. How many there were. He didn't. The Men's Club, planted right off the interstate, like everything else in a town laid down like a new quilt of plywood and Sheetrock, is a sumptuous palace of fiction. This has been the case since Jim Brown, the greatest running back ever to play the game, garnered the first of a half-dozen charges of violence against women, ranging from spousal battery to rape to the sexual molestation of two teenage girls*. "You know I would.". [4], Carruth was a first-round draft pick in the 1997 NFL Draft, taken by the Carolina Panthers with the 27th overall selection. The Jury Deliberates. This one didn't sound funny at all. Panicked at the money situation. [3] During Carruth's sophomore year at CU, his Sacramento girlfriend, Michelle Wright, gave birth to their son Raelondo. It's as dark as Charlotte gets, the two-lane stretch of Rea Road a few miles north of the movie theater where Cherica and Rae went that night, in separate cars, and it's so silent, so still in the hour after midnight on a weekday, that if you stop your car in the dip in the road and kill the engine, you can imagine yourself back in the South when the farmland was creased by rambling stone walls and the woods were thick with kudzu. He spoke very quietly, nearly in a whisper. ", "But you can't marry that many women, can you?". By some measures, she was the most handsome of all: high forehead, piercing eyes, coiffed and jewelried to the highest. Rae Lamar Wiggins, known as Rae Carruth, was born in Sacramento, California, USA, on January 20, 1974, and is a former American football player who played as a wide receiver for the NFL Carolina Panthers. Just for being Rae. Q. To know Rae Carruth and to understand the course he chose to take, to divine the nature of his particular rebellion—because isn't that what all our adolescent contrarinesses are? And yet Rae hardly ever visited his own child. And he had hired Van Brett Watkins, for $3,000, to beat up Cherica Adams so she'd lose the baby, but Watkins hadn't delivered. He found her too possessive: she was jealous of all his other female friends. He paid $3,000 a month in child support to the mother, Michelle Wright — a detail that proved critical for the prosecution establishing motive as they built a case against Carruth. When they played, Fonda couldn't tell who was the kid and who was the adult. Cherica gave birth to a son named Chancellor, who survived. After all, little boys don't like little girls, and what was Rae Carruth other than an overgrown boy, a bundle of muscle and fiber jerry-rigged to play a game? But they'd have heard the five distinct cracks of the .38, when Watkins sent five metal-jacketed bullets through the tinted glass of the driver's window of the BMW. And because he was making a living in a league in which a man and his basest instincts are encouraged to run wild. Barbara Turner hadn't raised her daughter to be no fool. [10] The trunk also contained $3,900 cash, bottles of his urine, extra clothes, candy bars, and a cell phone. They rang the doorbell. Steer clear of the hucksters. Yeah, she said. And what was Rae if not a mama's boy?) Theodry Carruth's vigilance over her only son's upbringing paid off at least in the short run: Rae's grades at Valley High School were solid, he stayed out of trouble, and big colleges came calling. His uniform was sent to the Hall of Fame, where it now keeps company with the memorabilia of Brown and Simpson. This only proved that when you climb too high in the pulpit, it's easy to ignore the funky stuff going on under your nose. It was what all young, wealthy, transplanted men find there, these strangers in a strange land: nightclubs, comedy clubs, strip clubs. His parents gave the little boy then the name Rae Lamar Wiggins. This year, of course, Super Bowl MVP and murder defendant Ray Lewis, who has twice been accused—but not convicted—of hitting women, commanded headlines and earned full forgiveness at the hands of a most understanding media machine. Innocent of first-degree murder. [12], At trial, prosecutors contended that Carruth hired Watkins and others to murder Adams because of her refusal to abort their unborn child. Illustration by Sam Woolley. *. Especially if you're a member of the sinning crowd: McCarthey himself quit on his Colorado contract after Rae's third autumn in Boulder. (He liked to fuck them, and he liked their attention, and he liked the idea of them, but he didn't like them.) And there would be many female friends. He was taking grief from teammates and friends about letting a stripper use him, about her boasting all over town that she was carrying Rae Carruth's baby and wasn't going to have to work anymore. He'd invested in a car-title-loan scam that had promised the trappings of easy money—and lost his money. He made bail. Muhammad, a cornerback with Indianapolis, led his team into the playoffs last year after being convicted of hitting his wife. Cherica Adams worked in the Men's Club boutique. "He stopped in the road. As Rae's responsibilities and missteps threatened to collide, as his little-kid appetites met his stunted ability to cope with adversity, he began to consider a solution both novel and bizarre on the surface but certainly logical in the context of a man who regards his women as disposable and dispensable: any time he'd get a woman pregnant, he'd threaten her with death. As if the whole episode were an aberration. Carruth is scheduled to return to court for a sentencing hearing Monday at 11 a.m. Also expressing relief that Carruth escaped the possibility of a … "How many girlfriends did my dad have?" Like all rookies, he would be instructed on how to behave. The way Rae looked back at Watkins, the shooter, in his rearview mirror. On the other hand, it was at a Lamaze class that Rae first learned Cherica's last name. He immediately signed it over to his seventeen-year-old girlfriend in Boulder, Amber Turner, and told her to go ahead and set up house for them in Charlotte. Charlotte is full of gentlemen's clubs, peopled by men who are anything but. friend? His mom had turned him in: Theodry had given him up to the bail bondsman. He signed a four-year, $3.7 million deal that included a $1.3 million signing bonus. He'll serve nineteen years minimum, twenty-four maximum. She also danced under an alias at a different bar—over on the stages of the Diamond Club, a slightly more frayed entry in the topless-club genre, a place where a dancer is likely to be visiting from her home club in Buffalo for the long weekend, to pick up a couple of bucks, leaving the two-year-old back with her grandmother. No, the question I kept asking myself was this: If Rae Carruth loved women so much, why did he keep threatening to have them killed? In 1992 Rae went off to the University of Colorado. Rae had another idea. She loved Rae, too. Reprinted here with the author's permission. [14], Carruth was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. But like his first-round peers, he knew what had actually just happened: he'd been ushered into a land of entitlement, where the only promise he'd really be held to was the promise he'd shown thus far on the playing field. While attending college, his then-girlfriend Michelle Wright got pregnant and gave birth to their son Raelondo. A woman was in the bedroom. The Carolina Panthers took him as their first selection, number twenty-seven overall. "Don't be surprised if you get in a fatal car accident," Rae answered, according to Michelle. Little Rae asked his mother. Rae went to valley high school. Rae Carruth told a North Carolina television station he wants to care for his son, who is now 18. Testimonies were also given by Candace Smith, a stripper who had an affair with Carruth, Michelle Wright, who had birthed Carruth's first … No one could have seen Rae's Ford Expedition slowing down in front of Cherica's BMW, blocking her path. O. J. begat Michael Irvin of the Dallas Cowboys, who, prior to one of his frequent cocaine-sex bacchanals a few years back, cavity-searched one of his girls a little too hard for the liking of her cop boyfriend, who then took out a hit on Irvin. He just talked about it a lot—about having Michelle and Amber killed. The tattoos on the soft planes south of the hipbones are frosted over with pancake makeup. Knowing Rae as we do now, we know that he simply reasoned thusly: if he didn't see them, then the agents weren't there at all. He also grew up in Sacramento. — J.L., Hope Mills A. Amber was cool, slim, and fiery and a favorite among those of us who spoke of such things during breaks in the action, although Starlita was easily the most exotic; she looked like a Mexican princess dropped into a southern murder trial. Like the time Michelle called him in March 1998. Rae Carruth released from prison after serving 19 years in murder of Cherica Adams ... however, according to his mother, Michelle Wright. (Brian Bahr/Getty Images) Saundra knows that Carruth may not … Soon he opened his eyes, raised his hands, and climbed out. No need to grow up too fast. Week in, week out, they never stopped coming. There are houses here, a few of them, a light or two winking through the trees, but none has a clear sight line to the spot. During Carruth's sophomore year at Colorado, his girlfriend, Michelle Wright, gave birth to their son Raelondo. After 11 weeks and 70 witnesses, closing arguments were heard on January 15, 2001. He signed a four-year, $3.7 million deal that included a $1.3 million signing bonus. Well, because he really didn't like women at all. He was found not guilty of first-degree murder, and was spared the death penalty. - The Saga of Rae Carruth, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rae_Carruth&oldid=1013534895, African-American players of American football, American sportspeople convicted of crimes, People convicted of murder by North Carolina, Players of American football from California, Prisoners and detainees of North Carolina, Pages which use embedded infobox templates with the title parameter, NFL player missing current team parameter, Infobox NFL biography articles with old NFL.com URL, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Former professional football player (1997–99), Conspiracy to commit first degree murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, using an instrument to kill an unborn child, Career statistics and player information from, This page was last edited on 22 March 2021, at 03:51. [5], Carruth had a respectable rookie season in 1997 and started 14 games. The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth.…, Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise, Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders. His girlfriend in high school, Michelle, had been a sophomore when he was a senior, and she'd just turned eighteen when Rae got her pregnant on a visit back home from college. Follow us on Twitter, @DeadspinStacks, or email us at thestacks@deadspin.com. On the high end, there's the Men's Club, Charlotte's topless palace nonpareil. And how could such a man wind up finding a home—even flourishing—in the National Football League? [8], Adams was eight months pregnant with Carruth's child at the time. He later accepted an athletic scholarship offered by the University of Colorado, Boulder.Rae Carruth dated But the dancers are not the only attraction; above the stage looms a huge television screen, like Oz's mask, eternally tuned to ESPN, so that the allure of even the most seductive sirens competes with huge images of men being tackled and talking heads blathering about blitzes. Not only was she beautiful, but get this: after her daughter testified against Rae, the mother testified glowingly for Rae. It's the rare one who is allowed to harbor his playground sexism until it blossoms into monstrosity. Of course, most kids grow out of that stuff. On the one hand, he kept a new set of baby furniture in a storage facility under his name and took Cherica to Lamaze classes. Some newcomers to the courtroom thought she was another female friend. He was named to the all-rookie team at wide receiver.[6]. It just goes on and on. The subtext of the Promise Keepers was a patently sexist one, of course: portraying women as worthy beings but regarding them, ultimately, as secondary, as biblical chattel. The creak of the knee braces Rae wore beneath his pants to keep him from fleeing was the only sound in the courtroom when he was led in to hear the verdicts, one day shy of his twenty-seventh birthday. Its preseason three-and-a-half-day symposia are supposed to make its rookies duly aware of their newfound responsibilities to their fans and their leagues and the kids who put their posters on the wall: To avoid the sleaze joints. Describe her instead, she warns in a voice that brooks no argument, as simply having been raised by a Southern mother, and then say she is raising her son thusly. Stately, slim, a dancer. Career, Awards & Nominations. He was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in prison.[15][16]. Animated and emotional and expressive as the women were—weaving and looping their tales of his goodness and his charity—Rae remained a well-tailored sphinx. Lost in the shuffle but not forgotten, Corey Dillon and Mustafah Muhammad and Denard Walker contributed, each in his own way, to this long-standing tradition. On the field, McCartney was known for teams that played hard and thuggishly. She got pregnant. Carruth then drove away from the scene. [8] Adams died on December 14, 1999. Rae Lamar Wiggins known as Rae Carruth, was born on the 20th January 1974, in Sacramento, California, USA, and is a former player of American Football who played in the position of wide receiver for the team of the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. Amber's mother had no problem with Amber setting up house with Rae in a distant city, right out of high school. In 1997 he entered the hallowed fraternity of first-round draft picks under the watchful wink of the NFL. He's in prison up in Nash County, where he won't have to worry about women and women won't have to worry about him, and as his crime swiftly seeps into the background noise of the culture, we're already starting to act as if we didn't have to worry about Rae Carruth anymore. His quarterbacks at CU were future pros Koy Detmer and Kordell Stewart. One day God told McCartney to found the Promise Keepers. He could be a real joker, or he could be a cipher, or he could even be, in the dark moments, the Devil himself. 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