09-05-2025
Karen Carter's killing stirs fear and gossip in the Dordogne
Alan Carter has brought flowers to lay by the gravel drive where his wife of 30 years was found stabbed to death next to her car. 'I can't tell you how hard it is looking at all this, but it's the only way to try and accept what has happened, ' Carter, 65, says quietly, standing at the police tape with posies picked from a friend's garden.
The early-evening sun bounces off the honeyed-stone barn that they had renovated. Beyond the tape, the gravel drive is horribly stained. It is the only clue to the terror that Karen Carter, 65, must have felt ten days ago, when her attacker — lying in wait for her return — lunged with a knife and then fled, leaving
