Serial Killer Billy Mansfield Jr. Confesses to 1980 Murder of Carol Ann Barrett

Despite the confession, authorities will not pursue prosecution as Mansfield is already serving multiple life sentences for other murders.

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.