So sad a young woman taken so brutally

With friends like these, who needs enemies...

Why Usa take this pleople for work...

FRIENDS??? Jeez!

she wasnt found in the car get your facts straight they found the car at 2am in a totally diffrent place they found her body in a field over by elmira people read the real news channel 4 channel 5 and the kc star have the true facts gonna call this site true crime get the story right this girl was a great person she deserves to have the story told CORRECTLY rest in peace carol

Supposedly she was attacked and abducted from a party of some sort. Not a single person stepped in to help her(witnesses now)! Just think she could still be alive!

Friends,......... hardly.

Rest in peace, Carol.

To "heavensrose": It may be the case that the information on this site isn't perfectly up-to-date or that there are inaccuracies because the writers don't live in the area, and thereby don't have access to the "real news channel 4 channel 5..." In case you aren't aware, channels 4 and 5 aren't universal across the nation. The writers at True Crime Report are providing a *free* service, so until you can do better, get off your high horse and learn some punctuation. Do us all a favor, and stop insulting yourself.

I am part of CAT's extended family and I am livid that her "friends" "allegedly" did this and that other "friends" of hers didn't do anything to stop the abduction.

I am seeing first hand the trauma that murder causes and Carol's family will NEVER be the same. It is hard enough to lose a person in your family but when it is murder that makes it a thousand times worse.

Its what you get when you deal with crack heads
sorry

you all keep saying "friends" like they betrayed her first. seems to be the other way around. she made herself a victim, and i refuse to feel sorry for anyone involved with drugs like these.

shes selling crack, this probably wasn't the first time she had done it. she probably smoked all her supply and figured "im blowing town to go to ex-boyfriends, might aswell make 500$ first"

you just dont get into situations like this being someone that has absolutely no prior involvement with drugs.

im not saying she deserved to die, but from reading the article shes hardly a victim

This is to JOE ,Get your Drugs right it wasnt crack and who says if this story we are hearing is true or not. Road salt would look like meth or ICE, all you would have to do was taste a lil bit .I dont believe This story. PS crack is yellow or white. RIP LIL GIRL.

Carol was a friend of mine, the first friend i had when i moved to missouri.Yes she was involved with drugs and shes been ripping people off for quite some time now, but she was supposd to have a life ahead of her instead she was brutally beaten 3 people and then murdered over 500 dollars. I knew all the parties involved and none of them had their head on straight, but nobody deserves to have their life taken over 500 dollars worth of dope. Didnt the convict ever think that they would rather be out 500 dollars rather than spend the rest of ther life in prison, because thats what they deserve, too bad missouri doesnt have the death penalty, i say take em to Texas, and hang em. A little girl lost her life and all people wanna say is that she was dealt the hand she was givin, well i say she didnt deserve it no matter what the conflict was. REST IN PEACE CAROL YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED!!!

this is a pretty whack story. Crack kills, one way or another. Ripping people off is not good, particularly when they are crack or meth heads or whatever they were on. Sad but true. I am not saying that she deserved to be killed like that, but if you play with fire...

If they were all just smoking grass i betcha it would have not gone down like that, but who knows. I have heard of people getting killed over $5. I feel sorry for the ones that loved these people but the perps should get the book tossed at them.

My aunt was very close with CAT and has know her for a long time ya she may have had prior dealings with drugs but NOBODY deserves to die over some amount of 500 dollars. i knew white boy(james) since i was like 16 (now 21) he was always messed up. me and my family thought she was turning her life around so not sure how this came about but regardless it is very sad. you can say she isn't a victim or play with fire.... whatever but how do any of us know that she wasn't just a middle man maybe she didnt know it was rocksalt or whatever i mean we don't really know what happened we werent there but what I know is that it is sad and some very young people lost there lives because of stupid stupid drugs dosen't matter if they are in jail or CAT R.I.P people on drugs don't have a clear mind. I HOPE THEY GET LIFE EXCPECIALLY WHITE BOY(JAMES) according to local news he is the one who pulled the trigger. they should pay for what they did for sure!!!

I agree that Carol shouldn't have sold the rock salt as dope.
But her supposed "friends" were surely posers turncoats. They could have demanded their money back, but no, they wanted cold revenge. I hope all 3 get the death penalty to pay for Carol who is dead.

I am in no way condoning the kidnapping and murder of this girl. But come on. What do you think is going to happen when you burn three crackheads for $500, they're going to understand, no. now she's dead, and now we all know, dont burn a crackhead for their crack money....or you will die.

Sorry, but she is not a victim here. She 'purposely' sold them rock salt. They trusted her. She was gonna take the $500 and skip town to her bf's. I knew someone just like her. She is lucky to be alive, because people kill when you mess with their money and drugs. She was a user and a pusher. So where is she the victim? If they hadn't done it, then the next person she did it to would of. I'm not saying that she deserved what she got, but I wonder what she thought would of happened given her actions? When you do drugs, no one is your friend. They are out for #1 and #1only! Remember that.

Jenny, you are kind of contradicting yourself in your post, although I'm pretty sure you just worded that wrong. First you say "they trusted her", and at the end, you say "when you do drugs, no one is your friend". The words drugs, trust, and friend never belong near each other. Crackheads burn everyone and everyone they can to get a fix.

Chances are she was also a crackhead, and was high as a kite when she tried to burn a fellow loser.

As the saying goes "there's no honor among thieves"...

RIP Carol thomas.... Jennifer Saling i never thought u would do something like that... wow have a nice rest of your life in prison

I am not an outsider looking in. I am not someone taking what they hear and what they see and thinking its all the truth. Me myself I have found many mistakes in the news videos and the stories they have up on these sites. There is no one that could of been closer to Carol Anastasia Thomas 23 than her mother Connie Shaver 45 or any of us as her sisters me Thomesa Thomas 21 Rheanna Allen 15 and Lilly Allen 11. I was her best and closest friend. Whenever we needed each other we found away to pull together. That's what family is for right? Growing up my sister Carol had it rough. We lost our father at a young age I was 2 1/2 and she was 5. My mother was left to take care of us two all by herself. We were lucky to have a wonderful guy named Rocco that helped throughout our childhood. Around the age of 10 Carol started drifting away from the family, hanging with the wrong croud and doing things young girls shouldnt have. She grew up way too fast. She was molested at a young age and placed in a group home and other facilities shortly after because of her behavior and not going to school. If you were to live a day of Carol's childhood life you would not of blamed or questioned most of her actions. Carol was a very unpredictable woman. You didnt know what was on her mind or what she was going to do next. My sister had her problems but no matter what family came first and her heart was always beating strong for everyone she had ever met. She fell into a hard life and yes it was mostly because of the choices she made. We have all went through our share of hard times and mistakes we wish we never made. I live my life day to day telling myself everything happens for a reason. And up to this point I could see why. But as of this time theres no one reason I can think of that my sister should of been tooken from us. It would be so different if she died in a car wreck or something along those lines. She was cold heartedly murdered. She was murdered by someone the family thought was a close friend. James Reardon (White Boy) was someone Carol and I both grew up with. I have known him for over 10 years. My family was there for him when his mother passed. We helped in any way we could. He stayed with my family from time to time after his mother passed. This is what truly tears me apart. I heard not too long ago that James Reardon got shot and me and Carol both were crying hoping he was okay. We spent all day trying to figure out what was going on. Im not into the dope game I myself do not do drugs. I have never done anything but smoked a little weed I took pills and I have drank Alcohol. It has never been anything hard for me to stay away from the HARDCORE drugs. I`ve seen Meth Crack and all that tear my family to peices. And now the drugs have taken my sister from me. Well not the drugs but the game they play. I personally think that the reason they kidnapped my sister Carol was to scare her and make her think theyre not people to mess with. I think it went a lot farther than they intended but the fact still stands My siter Carol Anastasia Thomas is dead there is no bringing her back. You took something very precious to me. You killed her and along with that my soul. All you people think that what my sister did was wrong because she took someones money or lied telling them it was something else. And yes she might of put herself in that situation but her life should of never been taken. From her or us. She was doing what she had to to survive in life and on the streets. If someone walked up to me friend or not and said here is 500 to get me this drug. I would take their money and I would go buy a homeless guy a blanket or food or something. I dont think the 500 being ripped off from those sorry people was a bad thing. She was clean for as far as I know. Put yourself in my situation. I went to see my sisters body today I still didnt believe it happened. Im lying to myself here telling myself that she will call or show up for the holidays. Never will I be able to work out our differences, I will never be able to tell her I love her and that things will be better. They simply wont. They no longer can be fixed. My sister had a touch of a mother. Always warm and embracing, she didnt tonight. I held her hand for the last time. She was soooo cold. You think holding your child for the first time is something you will never forget? Try hugging your dead sister so cold so fragile no laugh no smile nothing left. Thats something I could never forget. I look at her pictures and all I can see is her dead body laying on that table. She was a wonderful person very beautiful outgoing down to earth yet out of this world. You people can say what you want about the drugs and or what not but youre just belittling yourselfs. I love you Carol Anastasia Thomas RIP sissy we miss you dearly and hope youre safe now.

What a waste, one girl sent to the morgue and 3 morons going to prison for hopefully a long time. I hope they throw the book at the scumbag who pulled the trigger. Such a needless, senseless tragedy all over DRUGS as usual.

look, for your info folks carol was a sweetheart, and while maybe she had problems we all do she was trying to get her life back on track and as far as far as her life goes noone and i do mean noone has any right to pass judgment on her.she was a warm kind person. for whoever said she wasnt a victim here she was a victim here she lost her life.and to carols sis im really very sorry for your loss i cant fathom the depths of your pain.death of someone we love its never easy but i cant begin to comprehend how it feels for you to have lost a sister and even worse to murder.my prayers are with you and her family and all of those who loved her.im still in a state of shock as to why this happened living in such a small town.and they really anger me that they are only charging them with kidnapping here in clay county but they are trying them for murder in ray county.they are charging reardon with murder1 and the other two with murder two.they are saying james did the shooting. i have to say the police in this area are i dont know crazy lol the day it happened to quate the police officer
"we are treating this as a full blown kidnapping there is no reason not too"well duh she was beaten grabbed and thrown in a trunk ,next thing you know they will say the car was a case of arson.i mean come on really??rest in peace carol much love to her family and friends

I'm not taking any side .I could sit her and blame the world for all the atrocities in the world and yet it would't change a damn thing .Carol's not coming back and I would like to forgive these people who killed her .(I have to forgive them)Because there is a part of my soul that would love to exicute them in the same way they exicuted her.But really folks would make the viloence end.Violence beget's violence.AS far as all of the comments that I've read on this blog.I can tell the user's and the Carol haters.You need to think about this when you put out such hateful words hurtful thing will happen to you because nothing goes unpunished.I've been a recovering drug addict for at least 5 years And I hope you all seek the help you need.Please heal people Carol did have a heart as we all do and as we all make mistakes and we can be forgiven.Take time today to start your own healing...Please
Blessed Be

First off, She got herself into it. She was the one who sold them the rock salt. She should have knew from the start that was not the right thing to do. No, i do not think that she should have been killed. But, since i know James Reardon(White Boy) personally, i do not agree with him getting the death penalty or life. I think that all 3 of them should get the same amount of time though. They were all involved, they all knew what was going to happen & never chose to leave. White boy has kids and they deserve to have a father in their life. Even if it consist of just seeing him in prison. I know these kids, his little girl is only 2 and he also has a son that is younger than a year. They deserves to remember their father. And im sure that he regrets what he did.

First off, She was human. She did something that NOBODY knows why she did it except her and NOBODY ever will. We can throw blame all we want but nobody lived in Carol's body or knew what was in her mind. Some people do desperate things because of desperate times. As far as James Reardon (White Boy) deciding she should get the death penalty for it. Why should he not get the same sentence? He has kids that will never know him out of a jail cell. She had a child that will never know her either. No she did the right thing and gave that child a better home than she at the time could give it but at least she had heart enough to think of someone else. What did James Reardon think of when he did what he did? Did he think about his kids? Did he think about his family and what he was going to put them through? Did he think of her family and what they would go through? He can regret all he wants but it doesn't bring Carol back. It doesn't fill the empty hole that has been left in alot of lives. Death or life was his choice and he chose death. He not only chose that for her but himself in the process. He might get only life but if he gets death that will be in someone elses hands once again only this time it will not be his choice. And I think that all of them should get alot of time for what they did but the one who stood there and made the concious decision to take her life should pay the higher price. The others may have known what was going on and did not stop it but he chose to shoot her.

I was a friend of cats and anyone who has the nerve to sit there and say that's what u get when u deal guess what put urself in her sisters shoes. She has tried to get her out of that life and so have I. A lot of ppl have tried to help but when u can't get those crack addicts to stay away that's really hard to do. Put urself in her sisters shoes u would be distraught and extremely angry and vengful whether ur sibling was doing the right thing or not. Any fucker needs to be considerate and respectful because carol is and always was a good girl she just took the wrong path the only reason she couldn't get off that path is because of the ppl that wouldnt leave her alone. Anyone that wants to pay her respect cool post it but anyone that has something bad to say keep it to urself carol isn't here to back up here choices and her friends and family still cared for her regardless that's what real friends and family do. So at least show here some respect and keep the vile shit to urself cause chances are ur life is more shady than hers. I may be halfway across the U.S.A. FIGHTING FOR MY COUNTRY BUT GUESS WHAT REGARDLESS OF HER CHOICES SHE IS MY FRIEND AND I AM HERS TILL I FUCKIN DIE!!!!! R.I.P. CAROL 'CAT' THOMAS

A death resulted from a skewed moral compass. That is the basis of this tragic plot. The life of a living, breathing, beautiful human being snuffed out because of drugs. One needn't delve to deep to realize that the actions of the accused are not what a morally responsible person would ever consider, let alone undertake. For instance, take Bernie Madoff as an example. He had many clients. Absolutely destroyed the lives that he was supposed to be helping achieve financial independence. His clients lost their lives, not five hundred dollars. I'm sure some of those clients would like to see that man dead, if not by their hands, somebody elses. But a rational human shouldn't act upon such finalizing decisions. And rational people do not act upon such inclinations, because they are morally responsible beings and realize that action is wrong. The accused used no moral decision making. The hardest thing to understand is why such universally devastating actions were taken on a person who represents no real harm or threat to their future. I am a strong proponent to education. The ignorance of the accused, pertaining to the consequences and most importantly to the action of murder itself, is quite baffling. I hope that Carol's family and friends will eventually find closure and embrace the fact that law enforcement will act accordingly to ensure that Carol did not die in vain.

Wow..I came to this site simply because I wanted to read about the story and I have to say, I'm shocked by many of the comments on here. It doesn't matter what this girl did or how many of you believe she put herself in the position for something terrible to happen. Have a little respect, have you never lost a loved one you care about? It seems like a little common decency for if anything, those she left behind who obviously loved her very much, should not be too much to ask. If you don't have anything comforting to say, don't say anything at all.

THANK YOU Sue!!! Carol is very much loved by all who knew her and to see her blamed for her own death is just wrong. Carol was truly trying to turn her life around but the harder she tried the more things pulled her down. Give Carol and her family a break and let them grieve in peace.

she tried to sell rock salt to meth heads...

oh yeah, that was going to end well

not saying she deserved to die, but if she wasn't expecting an ass whooping for ripping off junkies, then she was a moron

White Boy(james) didn't think of his kids and they deserve a better life!! i know him as well somewhat anywayz and he is not a good guy those kids should have a better influence and he is and adult and a father he shouldn't have even been doing meth still if he really cared about his kids...i used to use and now i have been clean for over 3 years and i have a daughter no matter how much i might want to get back in i can't because of her!! thats what a good parent would do! he knew what he was doing was wrong he SHOULD get the death penalty for sure no question! and yes he should get more than the other two he is the one who decided to go through with shooting her... she did have a good heart..my aunt and her were close and she helped my aunt alot all of you who have said anything negative about her you just have no idea and any of you who would take up for any of those 3 expecially james should think again!! if it was your sister who he killed i bet you would feel different no matter how many kids he had..huh?? to carol's sister i am sorry for your loss and i hope you have peace this holiday season...

its a shame when the hot girls do something wrong for a good cause and gets murdered for it and it sickens me to say that the girl who pick up the boyz was my girlfriend who had just told me she was pregnant with my baby

To everyone posting negative words about Carol (Whom I did not know) should first read the words of her friends and family, the people who knew and loved her. Nothing you say can hurt her now but your negative words still have the power to hurt the people who loved her. Everyone has someone who loved them and no one has the right to take another persons life. Drugs, money, lies are NOT reason enough to MURDER someone. Is your life worth any of those three things? How would you feel if this story was about you and heartless people (Who probably dont know you from jack) spewed their negative opinion about you in a place where your mom, sister, friend, uncle, cousin, etc could see it.
My thoughts are with Cathys family, No one deserves to be treated the way your precious girl was treated. I pray for peace and calm for all your days ahead and may you only remember the GOOD times you shared.

my thoughts are with carols family. not cathy