LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Two people have pleaded guilty in a Lexington homicide case that had gone cold for more than a decade.
On May 27, 2009, Charlie Sowers was found in his home on Augusta Drive suffering from a head injury. The 71-year-old later died at a hospital and his cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma. Sowers owned "Charlie's Bar" on Bryan Station Road.
In October 2020, investigators arrested Edward Carroll and Rachel Martin in connection to the 2009 homicide. Two years later, on Wednesday, October 19, Fayette Circuit Judge Jeffrey Taylor accepted a guilty plea from Carroll and Martin. Carroll entered a guilty plea to second-degree manslaughter and Martin entered a plea to facilitation to murder.
Carroll and Martin will both be sentenced on Tuesday, December 13 at noon.
