DUQUOIN—The case involving the shooting death of Carbondale woman Molly Young is an open and ongoing investigation, according to the prosecutor handling it.
Jackson County prosecutor Mike Carr, in a press conference from Illinois State Police District 13 in DuQuoin, advised a small group of media and family of Molly’s this afternoon that the documents issued to Molly’s father Larry Young last year, which state point blank that the case was closed, were issued in error.
“If I had known that this (the issuance of such a document) was going on, I would not have allowed it,” Carr said. “The case is NOT closed.”
Mike Carr, reading his press information during the conference
He was hard-pressed, however, to actually come out and state for the record that Young’s case—wherein she was shot to death in the early morning hours of March 24, 2012, at her ex-boyfriend Richie Minton’s apartment in Carbondale—was an “ongoing investigation.”
Instead, Carr, who was just elected last November and who had spent nearly three decades in the federal prosecutor’s office in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, still spent an inordinate amount of time at the press conference, both in a prepared statement (which we’ll bring to you in full here in a bit) and in answer to media questions, adhering to the “possibility” that Molly Young’s death was a suicide. This is despite the fact that a Jackson County coroner’s jury in January, presented with evidence slanting the case TOWARD suicide, nevertheless ruled that her manner of death WASN’T suicide. Instead, the six-person jury selected the option of “undetermined” as manner of death. This speaks volumes, as only ‘suicide,” “homicide” and “undetermined” were the only options they had to choose from. That they did NOT select suicide should immediately discount Mike Carr every utilizing that word again…yet today, he continued to do so.
We’ll have more in a bit, including ISP master sergeants telling other ISP officials “not to talk to them” (us at Disclosure) when we were asking questions about a completely unrelated matter…which means ISP doesn’t work for everyone…only the people they WANT to work for.
Keep checking back.