Christa Worthington

American fashion writer (1956-2002)

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Christa Worthington (December 23, 1956 – January 6, 2002) was a United States fashion writer who worked for Women's Wear Daily, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, and The New York Times. She was also a co-author of several books on fashion and formerly dated Stan Stokowski, the oldest son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Leopold Stokowski.^[1]

Worthington was stabbed to death at her home in Truro, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). Her body was found on January 6, 2002, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, clinging to it. The child was unharmed.

On April 15, 2005, a local garbage collector, Christopher McCowen, was arrested and charged with her rape and murder. On November 16, 2006, he was found guilty in Barnstable Superior Court of first-degree murder, rape and burglary, and sentenced to life without parole. In January 2008, a hearing was held due to three jurors' separate allegations that racism was involved in the deliberations.^[2] In December 2010, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied an appeal for a new trial.^[3]

External links

Christa Worthington, murder on Cape Cod
News coverage of events leading to trial and trial coverage
48 Hours, Murder on the Cape (originally aired March 6, 2007)
Murder on the Cape movie (2017)^[4]

Links to some articles written by Worthington:

NYC Times Article on African fertility dolls
NYT News Service article on Navigational Aids Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine

References

^ Murder She Wrote Archived 2016-05-21 at the Wayback Machine People.com, June 30, 2003
^ "Judge questions jurors about alleged bias in deliberations." Boston Globe. January 10, 2008.
^ Court denies appeal for man convicted of Cape writer’s murder Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. Boston Herald. December 10, 2010.
^ "Murder on the Cape". IMDb.