Rae Carruth was released from prison Oct. 22, 2018, after serving almost 19 years for conspiring to kill Cherica Adams. Adams was pregnant with Carruth's son Chancellor Lee at the time of the murder. | The Charlotte Observer

TIME SERVED: Ex-NFL player Rae Carruth was released from the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, North Carolina, this morning after spending nearly two decades behind bars after a jury found him guilty of hiring hit men to kill pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. https://abcn.ws/2R70h3g | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

Former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth recently said he takes responsibility for the death of Cherica Adams in 1999 and the fact that their son, Chancellor Lee Adams, was born with cerebral palsy as a result of his mother’s gunshot wounds. Carruth said in the same interview that he wants to have custody of his son, who is now 18 years old. | The State Newspaper