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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Carabello\u2019s killing was part of a Reading Eagle series spotlighting cold case homicides.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Carabello\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
There was no sign of forced entry, investigators said.<\/p>\n
John C. Carabello, Lisa Carabello\u2019s estranged husband at the time of her murder, died of cancer in 2016. In an interview with the Reading Eagle<\/a> after John Carabello\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Hess hoped new conversations might cause someone whom John Carabello spoke to in confidence to come forward, but that apparently hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n Trooper Ethan Brownback, public information officer for Troop L, said Thursday that investigators had nothing new to release about the case at this time.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, we do not have anything new to add to the case, but we are reviewing the available evidence and exploring further forensic testing,\u201d he said in a email.<\/p>\n