Four months have passed since Aaron Carter, 34, was found dead in the bathtub at his home in Lancaster, California, and the official autopsy has not yet been released. Initially, the local police decided that the singer’s death was due to a drug overdose. However, his mother, Jane Carter, is demanding a full investigation and claims that his death was in fact a homicide.
Jane Carter posted on her Facebook account a series of photos from the bathroom at Aaron’s house, the site where her son’s lifeless body was found, on November 5 to draw attention to an ongoing investigation. “I’m still trying to conduct a real investigation into the death of my son Aaron Carter. They never treated it as a possible crime scene because of his addiction history,” Jane wrote on the social network Young man’s clothing and other unidentified remains Photos were not taken of her or the police but of another person entering the room, completing Jane’s hypothesis that the crime scene may have been altered: “Look at those Photographs, they weren’t taken by the police, but you let people in and out.”
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The singer’s mother has the support of family and friends, as she herself writes in the publication, to be able to publish these photographs. During the initial investigation, the authorities found no water in the lungs – which would have shown that the artist had drowned – and therefore focused on the hypothesis of an alleged overdose. With the pictures, Jane Carter wants to show that the police didn’t do their job properly. “Aaron received a lot of death threats from people who made his life difficult,” Carter argues in the post, without naming them.
Pending the results of toxicology tests, authorities are continuing to investigate an alleged drug trafficking operation that Aaron is believed to have engaged in the night of his death. Melanie Martin, the deceased’s partner, spoke to the American news portal TMZ in January. In the interview, he explained that he found text messages on Carter’s phone from an unidentified person demanding $800 for an unknown substance. He also explained how the singer responded that he no longer needed this substance. However, the person on the other end of the chat reminded him again that he still owed him the money.
The last years of Aaron Carter’s life were marked by constant drug and alcohol problems, which fully influenced his career in the music world and his relationship with his relatives, including his famous older brother Nick Carter of the band Backstreet Boys, which received a restraining order in 2019 filed against him because the little boy threatened to kill his wife Lauren Kitt, who was pregnant with their second child at the time. Aaron also came to tell in several interviews that he suffers from schizophrenia. Weeks before his death, he had put up for sale the Lancaster home north of Los Angeles where he was found dead. “We want answers, we want justice. There are people who have to be held accountable,” her mother now demands.
The release of Jane Carter has filled social networks with messages from users expressing their support for her to continue the investigation and be more inclusive, as the mother claims. In the face of all the controversy, and although authorities initially didn’t issue a statement, the Lancaster Sheriff’s Department sent a statement to the Los Angeles Times newspaper on Thursday. In it, they state that “Homicide is continuing its investigation” and that so far “no evidence of physical harm or anything unusual has been found.” In addition, they have indicated that the investigation is ongoing and they are still waiting for the singer’s autopsy, which four months later is still ongoing.