MOHNTON, Pa.- Sunday marks 25 years since a Mohnton woman was found murdered in her home.
“Everybody always says the same thing about somebody who has passed away; they were the nicest, sweetest person. She truly was,” says Rob Griffin, of his sister Lisa Carabello. “She was happy, just wanted everything to kind of sort of be right, her family to be happy.”
Towards the end of her life though, Lisa Carabello had faced some challenges.
She was going through a divorce and had undergone two brain surgeries to try and remove a benign tumor that was causing other health issues.
“She was actually on disability towards the end,” says Griffin.
Her brother says on February 8, 2001, she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her home on West Wyomissing Avenue in Mohnton. Lisa had suffered a number of stab wounds and her throat was slashed.
“It seemed always very personal,” says Griffin. “The house wasn’t broken into, she wasn’t raped, there was nothing missing from the house. It happened in the middle of the afternoon, nobody saw anything, there were no witnesses.”
The family was devastated, but despite thinking it might be an open and shut case, no arrests have been made.
“Sometimes it seems like a dream, sometimes it seems really real, sometimes it seems like it happened yesterday, sometimes it seems like it happened 50 years ago,” says Griffin.
Rob says as technology advances, evidence has been retested but to no avail. He’s hoping now that someone will come forward with information that could help get his sister’s murder solved.
“You kind of go through a whole bunch of different stuff trying to figure it out,” says Griffin. “What happened, you miss your sister, you want to see what happened, you want justice for Lisa. You want it to be closed.”
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