In the months leading up to September 11, headlines were dominated by another high profile case with some parallels to Worthington’s: the disappearance of Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern whose relationship with married politician Gary Condit made the media salivate.
The details found in the most basic description of the crime are horrifying on their own and needed no sensationalization, but that didn’t stop the media-and it didn’t take long for Worthington to become the antagonist in her own murder. Her two-year-old daughter, Ava, who was physically unharmed, clung to Worthington’s body the toddler’s mother had been dead for up to 36 hours. On January 6, 2002, Christa Worthington was found raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in her Cape Cod home.
