Loretta Kay Carr, Fort Payne, Alabama woman charged with capital murder for allegedly pushing Mary Elizabeth Isbell, missing woman over a cliff.
An Alabama woman has been charged with capital murder for allegedly pushing an abducted woman over a cliff. The charges over the weekend come almost two years after a missing woman’s abrupt disappearance.
Loretta Kay Carr of Fort Payne was arrested Sunday and charged with capital murder-kidnapping in connection with the death of abducted woman, Mary Elizabeth Isbell. She’s accused of pushing Isbell off of a cliff in 2021 after an attempted abduction or during an abduction, AL reported.
According to court documents, Carr was charged with ‘intentionally causing’ the October 2021 death of missing woman, Mary Elizabeth Isbell, 37, ‘by pushing her off of a cliff.’
Alabama authorities release few details of case as they continue to investigate
The Hartselle Police Department said Isbell was reported missing in November 2021. Prior to her disappearance, Isbell was allegedly involved in some sort of theft in an apartment she lived in with her boyfriend, James Allen Wright according to ABC 21.
Wright eventually transferred to a rehabilitation center in Florida, while Isbell began ‘living where she could’ in Dekalb County, Alabama. She was possibly at her son’s school in Hartselle on November 23, 2021, but hasn’t been seen or heard from since. However, police say that Carr pushed Isbell to her death in October 2021.
To date it remained unclear how the suspect was tied to Isbell’s disappearance and eventual death.
Carr remains behind bars at the DeKalb County Jail without bond. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office to date has released few details of the case.
