Carmen Gayheart was loading groceries into the back of her blue Ford Bronco when she was ambushed in the parking lot of a Florida Winn-Dixie.
The 23-year-old mom of two, a straight-A nursing student with a bright future, was about to set off to collect her five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son from daycare - but she would never see her children again.
Two recently escaped convicts from North Carolina spotted the pretty brunette alone and, in a moment of opportunistic evil, bundled her into the back of her own car at gunpoint and drove her to a secluded area, where she was raped and killed.
Now, 31 years on, one of her killers - Anthony Wainwright - is set to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison.
Sitting front and center to watch him take his final breath will be Gayheart’s older sister, Maria David, who told the Daily Mail she hopes Wainwright is gripped by the same terror her sibling must’ve experienced in her final throes of life.
