Rae Carruth was once paid millions to catch passes for the Carolina Panthers as a wide receiver — but joined the ranks of celebrities in prison after the cold-blooded sports star set up a fatal ambush in 1999 for his eight-months-pregnant girlfriend. But before she died, 24-year-old Cherica Adams told police of how Carruth blocked her car while three men pulled up alongside and fatally shot her four times. She spent weeks in a coma and her unborn baby was later delivered by C-section, although the child suffered brain damage. Carruth’s four-year contract worth $3.7 million came to an end after he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, along with shooting into an occupied vehicle and attempting to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to at least 18 years behind bars, and walked out of prison on Oct. 22, 2018. Sadly, Carruth wasn’t the first or last athlete to unleash his killer instinct away from the playing field…
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Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins with a hail of bullets and then blew his own brains out — ending the career of the boozing Kansas City Chiefs linebacker in 2012. Autopsy results showed the 25-year-old had a blood- alcohol level reading twice the legal limit when he killed Kasandra, 22, in the apartment she shared with their 4-month-old daughter Zoe and her mom. Belcher then droveto the Chiefs' stadium parking lot where he killed himself.
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Chris Benoit went berserk and
murdered his wife and 7-year-old son before the pro wrestler killed himself in the family's Atlanta mansion in June 2007. An autopsy later found Benoit's wife Nancy, 43, and their son Daniel had been asphyxiated. Benoit was found hanging by a cable from his weight machine in the home gym. Experts first believed Benoit ,known as the Canadian Crippler, had exploded in a murderous "roidrage" after drugs were found in the house. Later,
a bombshell medical report concluded ring injuries had turned the 40-year-old's brain into that of an 85-year-old man with Alzheimer's.
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Robert Rozier followed a brief career with the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals by joining a bizarre cult and murdering seven people as part of the group's revenge-slayings against "white devils." The one-time defensive end was part of a secret, murderous "brotherhood" operating out of the Miami, Fla., Temple of Love — headed by self-described prophet Yahweh ben Yahweh (pictured), who was later convicted of crimes linked to 18 slayings. Rozier confessed to seven of the killings, but got just 10 years. He then went into witness protection after testifying against Yahweh in 1992.
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Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins with a hail of bullets and then blew his own brains out — ending the career of the boozing Kansas City Chiefs linebacker in 2012. Autopsy results showed the 25-year-old had a blood- alcohol level reading twice the legal limit when he killed Kasandra, 22, in the apartment she shared with their 4-month-old daughter Zoe and her mom. Belcher then droveto the Chiefs' stadium parking lot where he killed himself.
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Chris Benoit went berserk and
murdered his wife and 7-year-old son before the pro wrestler killed himself in the family's Atlanta mansion in June 2007. An autopsy later found Benoit's wife Nancy, 43, and their son Daniel had been asphyxiated. Benoit was found hanging by a cable from his weight machine in the home gym. Experts first believed Benoit ,known as the Canadian Crippler, had exploded in a murderous "roidrage" after drugs were found in the house. Later,
a bombshell medical report concluded ring injuries had turned the 40-year-old's brain into that of an 85-year-old man with Alzheimer's.
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Robert Rozier followed a brief career with the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals by joining a bizarre cult and murdering seven people as part of the group's revenge-slayings against "white devils." The one-time defensive end was part of a secret, murderous "brotherhood" operating out of the Miami, Fla., Temple of Love — headed by self-described prophet Yahweh ben Yahweh (pictured), who was later convicted of crimes linked to 18 slayings. Rozier confessed to seven of the killings, but got just 10 years. He then went into witness protection after testifying against Yahweh in 1992.
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