Murder in Paradise Discovery ID describes this episode as when pretty Nags Head tourist
Janet Siclari turns up dead on the beach outside her hotel, the fun comes to an end. When a hurricane blows leads out of town, police wonder if the killer escaped too. Only time can help detectives catch the culprit.
Thomas Jabin Berry was caught when after violating probation his DNA was entered into the statewide system, where it was a much to this murder.
On Friday, 27 August 1993, the group checked out of their cottage in
Southern Shores and checked into the Carolinian Hotel located in Nags
Head, North Carolina for one final day and night of vacation. Janet
and Robert shared “the most expensive room” at the Carolinian. The
group spent the day together relaxing, swimming, and playing on the
beach. The group ate dinner together at a local restaurant.
Afterwards, they went to a comedy club. Robert, fatigued from the
day's activities, returned to the hotel room after leaving the comedy
club. Janet and her friends, however, continued on to a local bar.
Later that night, Janet left the bar and returned to the Carolinian
Hotel. Janet walked into her room and saw Robert already asleep.
Robert awoke briefly. Janet stated to him “it's only me,” lit a
cigarette, removed her sandals, and left the room.
On the morning
of 28 August 1993, a sanitation worker found Janet lying on the beach in
a “puddle of blood” near the steps leading to the deck of the
Carolinian. Janet had suffered small stab wounds on the side of her
neck, a deep cut around her throat, lacerations on the side of her face
and jaw, and cuts on her hands. Authorities located a pair of gray
socks and worn, size nine, Spaulding high-top tennis shoes (“Spaulding
shoes”) near her body. Janet's shorts and belt laid next to her throat
soaked in blood.
In 1996, Thomas Jabin Berry (“defendant”) was incarcerated as a result
of a probation revocation from an earlier offense. During defendant's
incarceration, authorities took a sample of defendant's blood and
entered it into the State's Deoxyribonucleic Acid (“DNA”) data bank.
In April 1997, a computer search matched defendant's DNA with the DNA
profile of the semen taken from Janet's body three years earlier.
Police subsequently arrested and charged defendant with the rape and
murder of Janet.
Links
You can write to Thomas Jabin Berry at:
Thomas Jabin Berry 29703
Pamlico Correctional Institution
601 North Third Street
Bayboro, NC 28515
Country Killing Discovery ID describes this episode as in early fall of 1992, the rural community of 
He opted to be executed by the state of Missouri where he was on death row rather then serve more time in the state of New Jersey. He was executed March 22, 2000. His final words were Take the phone off the hook as he didn't want the governor's office to call with a reprieve.
