Double murder suspect's trial delayed

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - The trial of a man accused of killing two Providence women has been delayed. Anthony Carter is charged with the murders of Amanda Sousa and Heather Jesus back in 2007.

His trial was supposed to supposed to start Monday. The delay is blamed on problems getting some of the people to Rhode Island to testify in the trial of Anthony Carter. He was captured in Florida.

For two years, the aunt of Amanda and Heather has waited for Anthony Carter to go on trial for her nieces murders. She tells Eyewitness News that she is so scared of Carter, that she asked that her last name not be used.

"That is a monster, that is not a human being, that is what that is. A human would not do that to another human being at all," says Debbi, aunt of the victims.

Carter is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Amanda Sousa and 21-year-old Heather Jesus, who was three months pregnant, to death at her Providence apartment in June of 2007. He's also accused of then lighting the place on fire.

Carter, who briefly dated Jesus, was arrested in Florida. Deputies there say he confessed.

"It is going to be devastating going through that again. You relive it every day," says Debbi.

The trial has been pushed back two weeks because of logistical problems getting witnesses to fly in from Florida.

"It's all you ever think about, you know? It's hard, but have to go on."

Debbie expects Carter to be convicted on the two counts of murder. But knows, no sentence will ever bring back the lives her two nieces, or the hole their deaths have left in her heart.

"I want him to pay the price for what he did. Nothing is ever going to be good enough," says Debbi.