Overview
- Prosecutors charged 22-year-old Kristin Sculley with second-degree murder after they say 28-year-old Robert Carragher was stabbed in the neck on June 1 and later died at the scene.
- Sculley pleaded not guilty at her June 24 arraignment and a judge denied bail, remanding her to jail with a return court date set for July 24.
- Her attorney says she was given a vape containing an incapacitating drug, woke to an alleged attempted sexual assault, and stabbed Carragher in one act of self-defense.
- Prosecutors say Sculley retrieved a knife from her purse, stabbed Carragher while he slept or was falling asleep, and was later found hiding in a laundry room covered in blood with the weapon; Carragher collapsed upstairs and died in his father's arms.
- If convicted of second-degree murder she faces 25 years to life in prison and the outcome of the pending forensic tests will shape pretrial strategy, public reaction, and how the case proceeds at the July 24 hearing.