168 - Kelly Moriarty and Doris Carter

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Two days after Christmas a family, vacationing in St. Petersburg, FL, made the grisly discovery of a human leg washed up on the shore. Investigators conducted searches of the bay as well as the coastline but never located any other remains or evidence. For more than three months, that leg would remain unidentified until investigators began making ties across county lines.

Thirty-eight year old Kelly Moriarty and her girlfriend, sixty-one year old Doris "Pat" Carter hadn't been seen in more than a month by the time they were reported. Quickly investigators from St. Petersburg, Manatee County, Hillsborough County and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found themselves involved in a desperate search for the two women while the assailant had well over a months head start.

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0:31.0	Just a few days after Christmas, a family vacationing in St. Petersburg, Florida,
0:45.0	made the grisly discovery of a human leg which had washed up on the beach.
0:50.0	While investigators worked to determine who that leg might have come from and how it ended up in that place,
0:56.0	they had no idea their investigation would kick off the search for two missing women.
1:02.0	Kelly Moriarty and her longtime girlfriend Doris Carter hadn't been seen since nine days before the holiday
1:09.0	and neither would be reported missing until nearly a month into the new year.
1:15.0	Four different agencies spread across three central Florida counties all had their own pieces of the investigation,
1:22.0	an abandoned car in Manatee, the severed leg in Pinellas, and the missing women of Hillsboro.
1:29.0	While investigators initially filed the belief that the two women had gone off together in the early morning hours of December 16th,
1:36.0	the investigation would accumulate dozens of pieces of evidence but nothing to suggest who might have been responsible nor where the crime was committed.
1:45.0	Had Doris faced the same fate as Kelly, killed and dismembered?
1:50.0	Had the women been the victims of a random attack or perhaps?
1:54.0	Might the answers lie disturbingly close to home? The home Doris shared with her daughter and son-in-law?
2:02.0	This is Trace Evidence Episode 168, the murder of Kelly Moriarty and the disappearance of Doris Carter.
2:19.0	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
2:24.0	Today we examine a truly disturbing case that began with two missing women and ended with murder and dismemberment.
2:31.0	Before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show.
2:35.0	Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders and disappearances.
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