CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The murder case against former Carolina Panthers star Rae Carruth will be examined in a true crime docuseries this weekend on BET.

• The case against Rae Carruth will be highlighted on BET's true crime docuseries, Murder in the Thirst. 
• Carruth was accused of ordering a hit on his then-pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams.
• After being convicted in 2001, he was released from prison last October. 

BET's Murder in the Thirst, hosted by actress LisaRaye McCoy will dive into the shooting death of Carruth's then-pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams, and the subsequent fallout.

A panel of experts will discuss the case on the July 28 episode, which will include dramatizations of the real-life events. 

Carruth, 44, was convicted of hiring a hitman, Van Brett Watkins, to kill his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams, in 2001. She was shot in a drive-by shooting November 16, 1999 while driving down Rea Road in south Charlotte. He was released from prison in October 2018. 

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Watkins and Michael Kennedy, the getaway driver who also bought the gun Watkins used, both confessed to the plot. In order to get the co-conspirators to testify against Carruth, prosecutors offered them a plea of second-degree murder.

He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, using an instrument to damage an unborn baby and shooting into a car. A jury found he was not guilty of first-degree murder.

Back in October, Spectrum News reached out to the jury foreman for the trial, Clark Pennell, who now lives in Asheville. He explained why they believed Carruth was the mastermind behind Adams's killing, but not for actually killing her. "Since they had already given Van Brett Watkins a plea of second degree and he's the one that pulled the trigger, in my legal mind, we couldn't convict the person who had not pulled the trigger of first degee," said Pennell.

Carruth was held in the Sampson Correctional Institution in the minimum security facility. He now goes by his legal name Rae Lamar Wiggins. 

His son, Chancellor Lee Adams, who survived the shooting, has brain damage and cerebral palsy as a result. He lives with his maternal grandmother. 

The show will available to Spectrum customers OnDemand, as well as on BET's website with a Spectrum login.