‘Witch’ Charged As Second Culprit In Palm Springs Murder

A murder charge was filed today against a woman accused of luring an Apple Valley man to her boyfriend’s Palm Springs condominium, where the victim was shot in a killing with satanic overtones.

Cara Williams-Covert, 38, of Ventura, pleaded not guilty to the first- degree murder charge stemming from the Nov. 13 slaying of 57-year-old Larry Roger Fisk, who was shot after he followed Williams-Covert to the condo at 680 Ashurst Court.

Her boyfriend, 48-year-old Dale Farquhar, was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder.

Williams-Covert came to court, accompanied family members, for arraignment on a felony charge of being an accessory after the fact in Fisk’s murder, but prosecutors instead unexpectedly filed the murder charge.

Williams-Covert, who was taken into custody in lieu of $1 million bail, began crying when she learned of the filing.

Supervising Deputy District Attorney Otis Sterling said outside the courtroom that the filling of the murder charge came after taking a second look at the evidence.

“A fair evaluation showed she is as responsible for Larry Fisk’s murder as Dale Farquhar,” Sterling alleged.

The prosecution contends that Farquhar and Williams-Covert had been acting out a horror script.

During Farquhar’s trial, Sterling said Williams-Covert called herself a “witch” and Farquhar identified himself as a “true demon” and a “sociopath” in a journal found in the condo.

The prosecution alleged that the couple came to Palm Springs last October to write the horror script and commit mass murder.

In the script, Farquhar played a character named Dave Hatcher, a transsexual in an open relationship with a “witch” named Cat, according to the prosecution.

Williams-Covert was playing the role of Cat, who was strung out on methamphetamine and lured men back to their condo for sex, Sterling alleged.

Prosecutors believe Williams-Covert was acting out the script when she allegedly lured the unsuspecting victim back to the condo to his eventual death.

Fisk, a motorcyclist who had recently separated from his wife, stopped in Palm Springs on his way to Arizona.

Following the shooting, Williams-Covert told police she saw Farquhar drag the victim’s body to the front of a vacant condo and helped clean up the blood stains, according to trial testimony.

She also admitted to helping Farquhar dispose of Fisk’s belongings in a desert lot about a mile from the condo, according to the prosecution.