ABC/AP: Arrest Made in Death of Cape Cod Writer (Christa Worthington) [View All]

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Arrest Made in Death of Cape Cod Writer
Cape Cod Trash Hauler Charged With 2002 Stabbing Death of Fashion Writer Christa Worthington

ORLEANS, Mass. Apr 15, 2005 — A Cape Cod trash hauler was charged Friday with the 2002 stabbing death of fashion writer Christa Worthington, a case that turned a national spotlight on the isolated outer Cape town of Truro and inspired a bestselling book.

Christopher M. McCowen was arraigned in Orleans District Court on charges of first degree murder, aggravated rape and armed assault. He pleaded innocent to all three charges and was ordered held without bail....

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Worthington, 46, was found dead on Jan. 6, 2002, in her secluded Truro home, clothed only from her waist up and lying in a bloody pool on her kitchen floor. Her then 2-year-old daughter, Ava, was unhurt but smeared in her mother's blood as she clutched the lifeless body....

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=673499


BACKGROUND on this story here, from CBS:

....In January 2002, Christa Worthington, a glamorous former fashion writer, was murdered in her home, stabbed in the chest.

Her death was the first homicide in Truro in more than 30 years. Police say she was dead at least 24 hours before they arrived.
They found her two-and- half-year-old daughter, Ava, alone with the body. Spilled cereal revealed that Ava had tried to feed herself after her mother was killed. There were also signs that the door had been forced open.

The grisly murder made headline news across the country. And it has now led to a new book that comes out this week. Writer Maria Flook, who lives in Truro, explores Christa Worthington's life and death in "Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod."...

Worthington, 46, was a Vassar graduate from a prominent New England family. She had worked as a fashion journalist, writing for Women's Wear Daily, Elle and The New York Times....(T)he quiet she sought in Truro contrasts sharply with the pool of suspicion swirling around her murder - which has a list of possible suspects worthy of Agatha Christie....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/09/48hours/main505717.shtml