Carrol Ann Barrett, an 18-year-old from Zanesville, Ohio, was visiting Daytona Beach for spring break in March 1980. On the night of March 23 she was abducted from the Treasure Island Motel in Daytona Beach Shores where she was staying with high school friends; witnesses said she was taken around 2 a.m. The next day her body was found in a ditch along Interstate 95 near Pecan Park Road in Jacksonville. The autopsy showed she had been shot in the back of the head with a small-caliber gun and her death was ruled a homicide.

The case went cold for decades despite investigative efforts. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office reopened the file in 2017; by 2020 convicted killer Billy Mansfield Jr., then 24 at the time of Barrett’s murder, was identified as a suspect. Mansfield later confessed in September 2022 to being the person depicted in the police sketch and admitted abducting and killing Barrett, but the State Attorney’s Office of the 4th Judicial Circuit did not pursue prosecution because Mansfield was already serving multiple life sentences. That decision left some family and friends feeling justice was incomplete.

If anyone knew Carrol Barrett, was in Daytona Beach Shores on March 23, 1980, or has information about her abduction, please come forward.