Susan Gail Carter, 41, was last seen in Beckley, West Virginia, on August 8, 2000, with her daughter Natasha Alex Carter while they were staying at a home on Kyle Lane owned by Larry Dell Webb. Initially treated as a parental abduction, a felony kidnapping warrant was issued for Susan in November 2000, and investigators long pursued the theory that she had taken her child.

Over time neither Susan nor Alex resurfaced and investigators shifted toward the possibility both had been killed. A renewed investigation drew in the FBI and state police. Searches of the Kyle Lane property turned up a bullet behind a baseboard in Alex’s bedroom; blood on that bullet tested to belong to Alex. In October 2023 Webb was indicted for first-degree murder in Alex’s death; prosecutors said they believed Susan was also dead but did not yet have charges for her.

Webb was taken into custody April 12, 2024, and prosecutors say he confessed to killing Susan during an argument over missing money and then killing Alex to conceal the crime. He described wrapping the bodies, burying them on his property, and investigators recovered remains of an adult and a child during an excavation on April 22, 2024. Webb died in custody the same day and therefore will not stand trial. Does anyone have information about Susan or Alex’s time on Kyle Lane that could help fill the remaining gaps?