Father Pleads Guilty to Murder of his Own Child

Last week we told you that Carol Michelle ‘Keri’ Roper will spend 30 years behind bars after she pled guilty to 2nd degree murder. The 23 year-old woman was accused in the 2014 death of her newborn child. She will serve her time at 100 percent, meaning she will not be eligible for parole.
On Friday her husband Blaine Roper, who was set to go on trial Aug. 8 for the same murder pleaded guilty as well.
Blaine Roper accepted a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Oct. 31, 2014, the Moore County Grand Jury indicted the Ropers, each with one count of conspiracy to commit first degree murder, one count of premeditated first degree murder and two counts of felony murder.
Investigators discovered the newborn’s remains in a fire pit and ditch located on and near the property where the Ropers lived in Moore County.