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Rae Carruth (Rae Lamar Wiggins) was born on 20 January, 1974 in Sacramento, California, United States, is an American football player & convicted felon. Discover Rae Carruth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

Popular As Rae Lamar Wiggins
Occupation Former professional football player (1997–99)
Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 20 January 1974
Birthday 20 January
Birthplace Sacramento, California, United States
Nationality United States

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Rae Carruth Height, Weight & Measurements

At 50 years old, Rae Carruth height is 1.8 m .

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Height 1.8 m
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

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Children Chancellor Lee Adams

Rae Carruth Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Rae Carruth worth at the age of 50 years old? Rae Carruth’s income source is mostly from being a successful Former. He is from United States. We have estimated Rae Carruth's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1974

Rae Theotis Carruth (born Rae Lamar Wiggins; January 20, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.

He played as a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).

1996

Carruth played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes, earning first-team All-American honors in 1996.

He played four seasons for the Buffaloes and was named a first-team All-American in 1996.

His quarterbacks at CU were future pros Koy Detmer and Kordell Stewart.

Carruth earned his degree with a double major in English and education.

Carruth caught 135 passes for 2,540 yards and 11 touchdowns in his four seasons, with an average of 18.8 yards per catch.

1997

He was selected by the Panthers in the first round of the 1997 NFL Draft and spent three seasons with the team.

Carruth was a first-round draft pick in the 1997 NFL Draft, taken by the Carolina Panthers with the 27th overall selection.

He signed a four-year, $3.7 million deal that included a $1.3 million signing bonus.

Carruth had a respectable rookie season in 1997 and started 14 games.

Wearing uniform number 89, he caught 44 passes for 545 yards and four touchdown passes, tied for first among rookie receivers.

He was named to the all-rookie team at wide receiver.

1998

He broke his right foot in the opening game of 1998, and did not catch another pass that season due to the injury.

He ended the year with four catches for 59 yards (all on opening day).

1999

He played in the first five games of the 1999 season, with 14 catches for 200 yards.

During Carruth's sophomore year at Colorado, his girlfriend, Michelle Wright, gave birth to their son Rae Jr. Wright sued him for child support, and Wright later testified that Carruth agreed to pay $2,700 in child support, half of what he was ordered to pay by a judge, and she had accepted on condition that he be a better father.

On November 16, 1999, near Carruth's home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cherica Adams, a real estate agent he had been dating, was shot four times using a .357 caliber Charter Arms revolver by Van Brett Watkins Sr., a nightclub manager and an associate of Carruth.

Adams managed to call 911, and said that Carruth had stopped his vehicle in front of hers, and that another vehicle drove alongside and its passenger had shot her.

Carruth then drove away from the scene.

Adams was eight months pregnant with Carruth's child at the time.

Soon after her admission to the hospital, she fell into a coma.

Doctors delivered the baby via emergency caesarean section.

Carruth went to the police and posted $3 million bail, on condition that if either Adams or the infant died, he would turn himself in.

Adams died on December 14, 1999.

The baby, named Chancellor Lee Adams, survived, but suffered permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy as a result of being without oxygen for 70 minutes before he was born.

Chancellor Lee graduated from Vance High School in 2021 at age 21.

Carruth quickly fled after Adams' death, but was captured on December 15 in West Tennessee, found hiding in the trunk of a car outside a motel in Parkers Crossroads.

The trunk also contained $3,900 cash, bottles of his urine, extra clothes, candy bars, and a cell phone.

The Panthers waived him on December 16, citing a morals clause in his contract, and the NFL suspended him indefinitely on December 17.

At trial, prosecutors contended that Carruth hired Watkins and others to murder Adams because of her refusal to abort their unborn child.

Carruth's lawyer David Rudolf claimed that Carruth had been caught up in a drug deal gone bad.

They claimed that on the night of the shooting, after Carruth had refused to fund the drug deal, Watkins shot Adams in a sudden rage when she "flipped him off" after he had attempted to ask her about Carruth's whereabouts.

Carruth was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child.

He was found not guilty of first degree murder, sparing him from possible execution.

Carruth was sentenced to 18 years and 11 months to 24 years and 4 months in prison.

2001

In 2001, he was found guilty of conspiring the murder of his then-girlfriend Cherica Adams, who was pregnant with his child.

2018

Including pre-trial confinement, he served 18 years of an 18-to-24-year sentence in the North Carolina state prison system and was released from the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, North Carolina, on October 22, 2018.

Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Carruth attended Valley High School.

He was accepted on a football scholarship to the University of Colorado Boulder, in Boulder, Colorado.