Overview

• Convicted serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr. confessed to the 1980 murder of 18-year-old Carol Ann Barrett, a cold case that had remained unsolved for over four decades.
• Barrett was abducted from a motel in Daytona Beach, Florida, while on spring break and her body was found the next day in a ditch along Interstate 95 in Jacksonville, Florida.
• The case was reopened in 2017 and Mansfield emerged as a suspect in 2020. After multiple interviews over two years, he admitted to being the person in a police sketch and confessed to the crime.
• Despite the confession, authorities decided against pursuing prosecution against Mansfield, who is already serving a life sentence in California for murder, as well as four concurrent life sentences in Florida.
• Mansfield was convicted of murdering five women in California and Florida and is continuing to cooperate with investigators on other cold cases.