HILLSBOROUGH — Days after Eve Marie Carson was found shot to death in a Chapel Hill neighborhood, Demario Atwater gave his girlfriend a descriptive account of the kidnapping, robbery and killing of the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president.
On Monday, the day that Atwater pleaded guilty in Orange County Superior Court to those crimes, District Attorney Jim Woodall said police were able to arrest the killer because of the intimate details he shared with Shanita Love.
In a quiet courtroom, during a plea arrangement that spared Atwater from the death penalty, Woodall offered up some of those particulars in a case that not only moved a community but exposed major weaknesses in the state's probation system.
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