The Georgetown Coffee Shop Murders and the Fourteen-Month Hunt for Carl Cooper

In July 1997, three young employees, Mary Caitrin Mahoney, Emory Allen Evans, and Aaron David Goodrich, were shot dead inside a Georgetown Starbucks during a failed robbery, a crime that gripped Washington and baffled detectives for nearly two years. Through anonymous tips, patient surveillance, wiretaps, and cooperating witnesses, investigators finally closed in on the career armed robber Carl Cooper, who in April 2000 pleaded guilty to forty seven counts and received a life sentence without parole, leaving behind a story about persistence, the weight of confessions, and the safety owed to ordinary workers.

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