Sneak peek: Murder on the Cape | Forensic Files

it's a small Seaside town uh just about at the end of Cape [Music] Cod and in the winter time it's a really
quiet place the people that live here you around us everyone pretty much knows one
another I never wanted to live anywhere else it's just a beautiful place to hang
out unless something really awful happens police are trying to solve the first murder in a small Cap Cod town in
more than 30 years the victim a local writer named Christal Worthington was found inside this house in Truro on
Sunday Christ Worton was found stabbed once through the left chest missing the heart piercing the lung and the knife uh
made an exit wound uh uh in her back and went into the kitchen floor below her worthington's 2-year-old daughter was
also at the house on Sunday and witnessed the attack but she was not hurt the details that we heard about
apparently AA attempting to clean her mother's body and finding a child's broom with blood on it and and things
like that that was really really hard to take the horror that came into this quiet house in the winter time at the
end of the world and just blew up these little wonderful lives my name is Eric Williams I'm a reporter
with the Cape Cod Times and I've covered this case from the beginning I'd say she had a very easy
smile she had a wide eyed wonderment about the world she was a mom she was a great mom her whole being lit up just by
being with her daughter Ava she was a flirt and you know I could tell that there was there was an
attraction I'm Tony jacket I had an affair with Crystal Worthington and we had a child together AA
worington it wasn't solved right [Music] away it is a murder mystery that continues to haunt Cape
Cod I think people were spooked who is this person that did it where are they I mean are they a local
people around here are getting very anxious and time went on and a sort of rotating cast of potential suspects were
trotted out we got Tony jacket the father of Ava it's um disturbing to be murder suspect Tony's son-in-law Keith
theato was a person whose name came up dude don't film it the guy who found the body Tim Arnold gist was an easy person
to love and sometimes a difficult person to be around I think there was the feeling like we're never going to know a
this was your next neighbor an arrest in the murder of chista Worthington I mean
that was a shock that was out of the blue they they arrested a guy I mean could you believe it

"48 Hours" has covered the case of A-list fashion writer Christa Worthington, murdered on Cape Cod, since 2006. The man convicted of killing her continues to fight for his freedom. "48 Hours" correspondent Susam Spencer reports. Watch Saturday, July 6 at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the murder of Christal Worthington and its impact on the Truro community.

Key points

Murder in a Quiet Town. A local writer is found murdered, shocking a small Cape Cod community.
The Impact on Innocence. A young child witnesses the horror of her mother's murder.
The Arrest. A shocking arrest in the murder case leaves the community reeling.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This was your next neighbor.

Reflecting on the shocking proximity of the murder.

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