Overview
- A judge on October 16, 2025, imposed a life sentence after Carbo’s second conviction in the case.
- Carbo was found guilty in January 2025 of two counts of first-degree murder while committing criminal sexual conduct following a retrial that began January 13.
- The Minnesota Supreme Court had reversed his 2022 conviction and life term because the original judge blocked defense evidence pointing to a potential alternative perpetrator.
- Investigators arrested Carbo in 2020 after public genetic genealogy led to him as a suspect and his DNA was found on the victim.
- The victim, 38-year-old Nancy Daugherty of Chisholm, was beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled in 1986, and Carbo later testified he believed a consensual encounter occurred despite having no recollection.