{"id":35458,"date":"2013-05-10T10:09:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35458"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:09:26","slug":"suspects-death-spurs-more-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/suspects-death-spurs-more-questions","title":{"rendered":"Suspect’s Death Spurs More Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For the past 10 years Gary Karp has had a single purpose: to find the person responsible for the murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Marissa Karp.<\/p>\n

During this time, Karp has singlehandedly compiled a dossier of evidence that has led him to conclude that Marissa\u2019s murder was linked to an international drug smuggling gang with Bahamian ties.<\/p>\n

Armed with a $12,800 reward, Karp is back in The Bahamas hoping to reach out to anyone his daughter\u2019s boyfriend, Randolph Almanto Coakley, might have spoken about Marissa\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

Marissa\u2019s body was discovered on August 19, 2002 in a garbage bag in a canal off Alligator Alley, just north of the Broward County line.<\/p>\n

Florida detectives think Marissa was shot inside the Hallandale apartment she shared with Coakley before her body was discarded.<\/p>\n

At the time of Coakley\u2019s murder in The Bahamas on April 11, 2013, he was a person of interest in Marissa\u2019s murder. Coakley was also a suspect in a double murder in Sunrise, Florida.<\/p>\n

Coakley was shot dead outside a residence in the Fox Hill area.<\/p>\n

Karp told The Nassau Guardian yesterday, \u201cTo say I\u2019m on a mission, to say that I\u2019m obsessed would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell people my world stopped spinning on August 19, 2002. I\u2019m still standing in the same place as I was back then… I\u2019m looking for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karp stressed that anonymity is guaranteed. \u201cPeople can remain anonymous,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want their names. We want their information.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cPeople know what happened. People talk. People brag. Somebody knows what happened other than the three people that were in that room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those people were his daughter, her killer and Coakley, Karp said.
\nHis voice cracking, Karp said, \u201cI\u2019m not asking them to do it for me; I\u2019m asking them to do it for a 17-year-old girl who didn\u2019t deserve to be murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Coakley\u2019s murder, Karp recalled telling a detective in Broward County that there was a need to speed up Coakley\u2019s extradition for the double murder before he was hurt or killed.<\/p>\n

Karp\u2019s worst fear became reality when a local reporter told him Coakley had been murdered.<\/p>\n

Recounting his reaction when he read the text message, Karp said, \u201cI was shocked. I literally fell off the chair. It was a big blow, not the final blow. Like I said, there are people out there that have information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Florida detectives also want to extradite Doyle Mackey on the double murder charges. Karp said he believes that Mackey could help him solve his daughter\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

Karp said he has not received the cooperation he expected from the Royal Bahamas Police Force. \u201cI\u2019m going to do it with the cooperation of the Royal Bahamas Police or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Through his own investigations, Karp said the names of a small group of Bahamians affiliated with the drug smuggling gang keep coming up.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Paul Rolle, the head of the Central Detective Unit, said he could not assist the family without a formal request from the Broward Country Sherriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Karp said life went awry for his daughter when her mother died in 1996. He said his mistakes at parenthood may have cost his daughter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Karp is convinced the missing link in his daughter\u2019s murder is The Bahamas. \u201cI believe the answers lie here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He has asked anyone with information to call Crimestoppers at 242-328-8477 or 954-493-8477.<\/p>\n

More information about Marissa\u2019s murder can be found on the Facebook page \u201cWho Killed Marissa Karp\u201d.<\/p>\n

By Artesia Davis<\/span><\/em>
\nGuardian Senior Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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