Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the Feb. 8, 2001, slaying of Lisa Carabello, a 40-year-old Wilson High School graduate, in her Mohnton home.
The Pennsylvania State Police Troop L cold case unit put out a renewed appeal for tips in the unsolved murder, dangling a $5,000 reward offer for information that helps solve it.
Carabello’s killing was part of a Reading Eagle series spotlighting cold case homicides.
Carabello died after someone slashed her from behind at the top of a stairwell inside her home. She fell down the stairs and died of a wound to her neck, investigators said.
Carabello’s body was found Feb. 8, 2001, by her 11-year-old son when he came home from school. She had been stabbed and slashed repeatedly, they said.
There was no sign of forced entry, investigators said.
John C. Carabello, Lisa Carabello’s estranged husband at the time of her murder, died of cancer in 2016. In an interview with the Reading Eagle after John Carabello’s death, Cpl. Robert Hess, who headed the Troop L cold case unit at the time, called the husband a person of interest who was interviewed by police.
Hess hoped new conversations might cause someone whom John Carabello spoke to in confidence to come forward, but that apparently hasn’t happened.
Trooper Ethan Brownback, public information officer for Troop L, said Thursday that investigators had nothing new to release about the case at this time.
“Unfortunately, we do not have anything new to add to the case, but we are reviewing the available evidence and exploring further forensic testing,” he said in a email.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact PSP Reading at 610-378-4011 or PSP Tips at 1-800-4PA-TIPS (8477) or online at www.p3tips.com/tipform.aspx?ID=107
All callers to PSP Tips remain anonymous if desired and could be eligible for a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest.