The Soccer Alibi: How Raven Abaroa Almost Got Away With Murder
On an April night in 2005, 25-year-old mother and former university soccer star Janet Abaroa was found stabbed to death inside her North Carolina home, while her 6-month-old infant slept unharmed in the next room. Her husband, Raven, claimed he returned home from a late-night soccer game to find an open front door and his wife shot by an unknown burglar—a story riddled with missing laptops, intact jewelry, and a newly taken $500,000 life insurance policy. For five years the case sat cold, until a relentless detective uncovered one tiny detail sitting right in front of them: Janet’s open…
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