NEW YORK WOMAN GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY-FUELED 9/11 MURDER
SCOTT MYERS PHOTOGRAPHED WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK, CARRIE WEISER SLIT HIS THROAT, CLAIMED HE DRUGGED AND WANTED TO RAPE HER
July 1, 2024
The jury that found a New York woman guilty of murdering a man famous for photographing the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center deliberated three days and said it was deadlocked, twice. Carrie Weiser slit Scott Myers’ throat after they argued over a conspiracy theory involving the former Coast Guard base on Governor’s Island, very close to the fallen Twin Towers. Weiser claimed it was self-defense, that Myers drugged and wanted to rape her.
Weiser started crying when the jury finally reached its verdict in a Hudson Valley courtroom last Thursday. Four jurors started crying too.
"Why is she crying?!," Weiser shouted out loud at one of the jurors.
Weiser and Myers first met in 2018 in Catskill, New York. They reconnected at a food pantry during the Wuhan virus pandemic in 2021, according to the Albany Times Union. Myers invited Weiser to Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's house but she canceled. They met up the next evening at a local bar, Subversive Brewing, instead.
They went to Myers' apartment shortly after 9:15 pm, police said. It was a five minute walk away.
They sat at a kitchen table and drank vodka, video from Myers' home surveillance system showed. Weiser added something to her drink with a shaker. The two talked about Star Wars, consciousness and the restraining order Myers' ex-wife obtained against him that bars him from seeing his children.
Weiser brought up real-life serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and “Dexter,” a TV show about a fictional serial killer
Then their talk turned to 9/11 and the devastating attack on the World Trade Center. Myers was living in a rooftop loft he built for himself and his family on John Street blocks from the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. He captured the North Tower burning after the first hi-jacked plane hit and captured the second hi-jacked plane hitting the South Tower.
"They watched people jump off the 100th floor, and [Scott's son] saw it too, and [he] tugged on Scott's pants and said, 'Daddy, daddy, those are people,'" Myers' sister, Jenny, said. "Scott turned to [him] and said, 'No that's just debris, that's just debris.'"
The National Guard went door-to-door in Myers' building and ordered everyone to leave. They didn't realize there was a makeshift penthouse added to the roof. Myers, his pregnant wife and children stayed in the building for days. Debris covered Myers' roof and broke two skylights. Myers cleaned ashes and body parts off his roof and out of his apartment.
He also wandered the streets around Ground Zero capturing video and still photographs.
"Scott did not do very well after that," Jenny said.
Neither did his wife, who eventually divorced him. Myers accused the presiding judge of facilitating "terrorism” and even “aiding bin Laden.”
He was jailed for six months in The Tombs for civil contempt.
Flash-forward to Nov. 25, 2021. Now 68, Myers and Weiser, then 28, are sipping vodka in his kitchen when their 9/11 talk turned to Governor's Island. The island, in New York harbor at the foot of the World Trade Center, was America's largest Coast Guard base from 1966 until it closed in 1996.
Myers told Weiser he worked there. He seemed to darkly suggest it afforded him some secret insight into the 9/11 attack. Weiser told Myers her father worked there too.
“I’ve been trying to find out about Governors Island since the 1980s,” she said, demanding Myers tell her all he knew.
Minutes later, Weiser went to the bathroom. Myers dimmed the lights, opened his murphy bed and swaped the shaker Weiser was using to "season" her vodka with another shaker identical in appearance to the first. When Weiser returned, she poured herself more vodka and shook the shaker into her drink. It's not clear whether she knows the shaker has been switched.
An hour or so later, Weiser saw a printer in Myers apartment and snatched a printed sheet from it.
“What is this, Governors Island?,” Weiser demanded.
Myers said it was for an Amazon return. Weiser asked if he had a knife.
"I’m not trying to kill anyone,” she said, “Is there someone I can stab?"
He hands her his pocket knife. She stabs the air with it.
“You just gave me a knife," Weiser tells Myers. "I guess you trust me.”
Weiser saw Myers' surveillance cameras and asked him to turn them off.
Twenty or so minutes after midnight Weiser called 9-1-1. She said her "boyfriend" cut his wrists and needed help. Police found a small sea of blood on the kitchen floor and Myers dead in his bed. His throat was slit, carotid artery severed. Weiser was “sitting on the floor near the bed with her knees tucked into her chest.”
At the police precinct, Weiser talked to police for almost a half-hour before asking for a lawyer. She said Myers wanted to have sex with her but she said no. She said it was self defense but claimed not to remember how Myers was killed.
She also asked police who their favorite serial killers were, they said.
Myers worked as an engineer, NFL videographer, fine art mover and building superintendent in New York City before being evicted after 9/11. He moved upstate and lived with his family in the Catskill mountains. After his divorce, he landed in the city of Catskill, on the Hudson River across from Frederic Edwin Church’s mountaintop Moorish masterpiece, Olana.
Myers supported community theater. He unsuccessfully opposed a $39 million jail Greene County planned to build in 2018. After George Floyd's murder by police in Minnesota in 2020, Myers joined Black Lives Matter protests and demanded the local police department be defunded.
He was particularly outraged that Greene County's sheriff at the time, Greg Seeley, accepted an award from the Oathkeepers, a right-wing anti-government group. He said it made the county—and its new jail—racist.
After Myers' murder, family and friends held a vigil in front of his apartment to celebrate his life.
"Scott had a community that loved him,"Jenny, his sister, said.
Weiser, now 35, faces up to 25-years-to-life when she's sentenced Aug. 27.