No player has worn the number 89 for the Carolina Panthers since 2013 (during the regular season or playoffs). Literally no one. And with good reason. 89 wil ...

On Nov. 16, 1999, the pregnant girlfriend of Carolina Panther Rae Carruth was shot 4 times in Charlotte. Here’s an exclusive update on the case, 25 years later.

Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panther, served nearly 19 years in prison for conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. He turns 50 Saturday.

Two decades ago, Watkins testified that Rae Carruth, then a rising-star wide receiver in the NFL, had approached him and promised to pay him $6,000 to kill Cherica Adams, an on-and-off girlfriend ...

Van Brett Watkins, the hitman who always maintained he was hired by former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth to commit one of Charlotte’s most notorious crimes, has died in a North Carolina ...

In 1999, Van Brett Watkins shot Cherica Adams four times on a dark south Charlotte road. He said he had been hired by former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth.

The man hired to kill the pregnant girlfriend of former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth has died, according to prison records. Van Brett Watkins, 63, died on Dec. 3, according to North ...

The man hired to kill the pregnant girlfriend of former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth has died, according to prison records. Van Brett Watkins, 63, died on Dec. 3, according to North ...