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a photo of Aoife, taken by photographer, Michael Goose, one month before her death March 27th, 1994 - September 23rd, 2012
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Aoife Iris Carter was an Irish-American model.
Aoife was born in Kilkenny, Ireland to an Irish mother, Rose, and American father, Lewis. She spent most of her childhood in Ireland, but often spent her summers in her father's hometown of Topsail, North Carolina. She had two older brothers, Ronan and Brian, and a younger sister, Cara.
When Aoife was five, she began modeling, after her mother found out about child modeling opportunities. The first thing Aoife appeared in was the cover of a child psychology book by English psychologist, Dr. Anne Willis. Afterwards, Aoife began appearing in magazines for children's clothes. Getting into her early teens, Aoife began to pick up a bit of a following. She used her platform for activism, being an advocate for LGBT rights, fighting racism, fighting sexism, just overall fighting bigotry.
She did a few modeling gigs with American magazines and even appeared in a 2010 issue of TIME speaking out against homophobia and transphobia alongside Juniper Kipper. She had a very large following and in early 2012, she confided in her girlfriend, Rachel Edwards, that she was feeling like she was being followed and watched. Rachel says that Aoife ended up just chalking it up to paranoia.
Aoife brought this feeling up a few more times, but wasn't sure what to do. She had no solid proof.
"I'm not sure what to do. I don't know if this is just paranoia or if I'm actually being watched and followed. I don't know if I should go to the police or what? What do I do?" Aoife wrote in her diary, dated only a day before her death.
After a date with Rachel, Aoife returned to her hotel room in London. The following day, other hotel guests reported an overwhelming order coming from the room and housekeeping was sent up there. What they found was Aoife's dead body. She'd been stabbed multiple times in the abdomen and once in the heart.
When the CCTV footage was checked, they found...nothing. They saw nobody entering her room through the hotel door. They found no signs of forced entry into her hotel room, but there was no way this was a suicide. There were signs of sexual assault.
Aoife was buried in Kilkenny, Ireland on October 1st, 2012.
The case remained unsolved until 2020. On February 19th, 2020 an Englishman, John Harroway, wandered into a police department, crying, saying that he'd done it, he'd killed Aoife Carter. He says he'd climbed up to her hotel room balcony and opened the door. She'd been asleep and while he was raping her, she woke up, John panicked and stabbed her to death, and fled the scene. He also admitted to having been stalking her for a whole year prior to her death.
That following August, John would commit suicide via slitting his wrists.
This past September, a biopic about Aoife was released, starring Kallie Charles, the actress best known for her role as Ellie Maxwell in the MCU. Like with the Jennings family, who had handpicked Natalia Thomas to play Maria, the Carter family handpicked Kallie, saying she'd be an almost perfect fit.
The movie was released on the eleventh anniversary of Aoife's death.
