VIRGINIA—In a little over six months a new trial is set to commence for Michael Allan Carbo Jr., the man accused in the murder of Nancy Daugherty on July 16, 1986 at her home in Chisholm.
A trial date of January 13, 2025 was set earlier this week, according to Assistant St. Louis County Attorney Chris Florey.
The Minnesota Supreme Court, earlier this year, granted a new trial for Carbo, and in its ruling determined the district court, abused its discretion by denying the defendant’s motion to present alternative-perpetrator evidence, because the defendant’s proffered evidence clearly had an inherent tendency to connect the alternative perpetrator to the commission of the crime and could have been admitted under the ordinary rules of evidence, and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt,” it states in court records.
Florey, via email, confirmed Sixth District Judge Robert C. Friday kept unconditional bail at $1 million, but set conditional bail at $350,000.
“The exact terms of release are typically reduced to writing if the defendant can post the necessary bond amount and agrees to abide by the conditions,” Florey told the Mesabi Tribune.
On Aug. 16, 2022, a jury found Carbo guilty of two counts of first-degree murder while committing criminal sexual assault in the first degree, more than 36 years after Daugherty’s murder. In September of 2022 Sixth District Court Judge Robert C. Friday handed down a mandatory sentence to Carbo, then 54, of life in prison.
On Aug. 30, 2022 Carbo’s legal team filed a motion for a new trial, and the motion was denied by Judge Friday, stating there is no inherent connection to another individual, as was published in the Mesabi Tribune.
Daugherty worked as an aide at a local nursing home and served as an EMT on the Chisholm Ambulance Service, and was in the process of moving out of the area to attend training to become a paramedic at the time of her death, according to testimony heard in the trial.
According to court records, when police found her she had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled, with police indicating there were signs of struggle both inside and outside the residence. The case went unsolved for 35 years.
Carbo was arrested on July 29, 2020, and charged with Daugherty’s murder after DNA evidence genealogy databases allegedly helped identify him as the man allegedly responsible for the long unsolved crime.
“Ms. Daugherty’s murder, which remained unsolved until 2020, prompted one of the most exhaustive investigations in St. Louis County. The investigation called on numerous current and retired employees of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Chisholm Police Department, and the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from numerous other agencies,” read a news release from St. Louis County Attorney Kim Maki following Carbo’s sentencing. “The crime was ultimately solved, in part, by linking many items of DNA left behind at the crime scene to DNA taken from Michael Allen Carbo, Jr.”
The St. Louis County Attorney’s Office, at the time of his sentencing, said Carbo will be eligible for parole after serving 17 years.
Carbo is currently being held in the St. Louis County Jail.
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