Bud Moriarty thinks he knows what happened to her. And who is responsible. In his daily letters and phone calls, he isn't shy about sharing his thoughts, and his frustrations with law enforcement for her case being unresolved. He might be right. Or he might not be. In fact, the only part of the story that is certain is where it ends: on a beach in St. Petersburg where his daughter's severed leg washed ashore...
Responding to Bud Moriarty's demands for answers, they have shared some of their findings. The bulk of the investigation, sheriff's officials say, has focused on Stacy and Anthony Muralt, Carter's daughter and son-in-law...
In the days after Carter and Moriarty were last seen, Stacy Muralt's cellphone recorded a series of pings off cell towers in South Tampa and St. Petersburg, in the vicinity of the Gandy Bridge, Ura said. And, in late December, surveillance video from Carter's bank showed Muralt accessing her mother's safe deposit box. After that, authorities froze Carter's financial assets.