A Mind for Murder
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Professor Thomas Murray and his former student, Carmin Ross, had been married for 18 years before they divorced. They shared custody of their daughter, Ciara, but the night after Carmin told Murray she wanted Ciara to live with her and her fiance, she was found beaten and stabbed in her home. “48 Hours" Correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports.
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| 0:00.0 | For anyone who knows Carmen, there's just a magic to her. |
| 0:16.0 | She was going through this transition ending her marriage. There was just no question that we were meant to spend the rest of our lives together. |
| 0:28.6 | I hadn't heard from her that day, left a couple messages. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey, darling, how you doing with me, and I'm really concerned, I asked a couple of messages for you, |
| 0:39.3 | and please give me a call. |
| 0:41.3 | You just told me there you're okay. |
| 0:43.3 | I got panicky, I knew something just wasn't right. |
| 0:46.3 | And finally called the police. |
| 0:57.0 | There was quite a struggle. A heck of a fight had gone on in that room. |
| 1:00.0 | Furniture was turned over, potted plants were knocked over. |
| 1:03.0 | There was blood everywhere. |
| 1:06.0 | Ceilings, walls, the carpet was blood-stained everywhere. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it was fairly clear to us that a murder |
| 1:12.3 | had occurred. I knew from the time I had children that the worst thing that would ever happen |
| 1:18.6 | that could ever happen to me would be to lose a child. And in this case, she was just ripped out of our lives. |
| 1:27.1 | Somebody had to have a motive for this to happen. |
| 1:29.3 | I only know one person that had anything to gain. |
| 1:32.3 | Tom, my ex-son-in-law, an English professor. |
| 1:35.3 | But he couldn't do that. He doesn't have the guts. |
| 1:39.3 | I told Mr. Murray that his ex-wife Carmen had died and that we needed to speak to him about that. |
| 1:47.0 | In me, you have not just a likely suspect, but a convenient one. |
| 1:57.0 | Why didn't you just arrest him then and there? |
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