On Sunday, March 23, 1980, 18-year-old Ohio teen, Carol Ann Barrett, was visiting Daytona Beach while on Spring Break with a group of high school friends.
At approximately 2:00 a.m., police reports state that Carol was abducted from the Treasure Island Motel, in Daytona Beach Shores.
After interviewing Carol’s friends that had been in the room at the time of the kidnapping, a police sketch of the suspect was completed.
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The very next day, Carol’s lifeless body was discovered in a ditch line along I-95 near Pecan Park Road in Jacksonville, Florida. Following an autopsy, Carol’s death was ruled a Homicide.
Tragically, the case went “cold” after years of work by detectives with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office along with the original jurisdiction.
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In 2020, a person of interest that had been discovered.
Identified as 65-year-old Billy Mansfield, Jr., Authorities ultimately believed him to be the suspect in Carol Barrett’s murder.