Overview
- Karen Carter, 65, was found fatally stabbed outside her Trémolat home in April 2025 with eight serious wounds including one to the aorta.
- Regional prosecutor Jacques-Edouard Andrault said the investigating judge formally charged a roughly 70-year-old local woman on July 2 after a year-long judicial inquiry.
- The suspect was first detained on April 30, 2025 and later released before the recent indictment, and she is now under judicial supervision and barred from staying in Trémolat.
- Investigators have examined a possible jealousy-driven dispute involving Carter, her partner Jean-François Guerrier and a neighbour, but authorities have not publicly detailed the evidence that prompted the charge.
- Forensic work has included DNA sampling from the charged woman, Guerrier and about 15 guests from a wine-tasting event and those samples reportedly have not matched traces recovered at the scene, leaving the inquiry ongoing and the question of trial unresolved.