Watch Queue Queue This video is unavailable. Some letters are written like dramatic news accounts, others are in the voice of Winstead's ghost. Watch Queue Queue. The incident happened when her school was in the process of completing a fire drill. The Carmen Winstead Death. Carmen Winstead was a run-of-the-mill Indiana teenager who was tragically killed when she was pushed into a sewer by five other students. All of them relate the same sad tale of a teenage girl … The urban legend of Carmen Winstead emerged in 2006 when chain letters began circulating online.