Serial Killer Billy Mansfield Confesses to 1980 Murder of Ohio Teenager

Mansfield, already serving multiple life sentences, admits to killing Carol Ann Barrett during her spring break in Florida, raising his confirmed victim count to six.

• Convicted serial killer Billy Mansfield has confessed to the 1980 murder of 18-year-old Carol Ann Barrett in Florida, bringing the confirmed count of his victims to six.
• Barrett, from Ohio, was on spring break with friends when she was abducted from their motel room in Daytona Beach; her body was found the next day in Jacksonville.
• Mansfield, who was 24 at the time of the murder, became a suspect in Barrett's case in 2022 and confessed after two years of interviews.
• Mansfield is currently serving a life sentence in California and four concurrent life sentences in Florida for previous murders committed between 1975 and 1980.
• Despite the confession, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said it will not seek to prosecute Mansfield for Barrett's murder, but noted his cooperation in other unsolved cases.

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