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Tags: <plot-explanation><no-country-for-old-men>
Title: Does Anton Chigurh kill Carla Jean Moss?
Question: Towards the end of No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh tracks down Carla Jean Moss. They are sitting in a room together and he gives her the option of heads or tails to decide her fate. Is there any definitive evidence that he killed/didn't kill her?

Answers:
sents: text: Not 100% definitive, but I always thought that he did.
text: Evidence that he kills her:
text: Its explicitly stated that he does in the book
text: The shot of him inspecting his boots on the way out implies that he is checking for blood
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/576/kekekela
score: 47
sents: text: The cattle gun Chigurh used was with him while he sat frozen like a statue.
text: Carla wouldn't call the coin toss so he got up slowly and pointed it at her forehead.
text: Her last words were "now I know why the sheriff told me about this."
text: He took her car keys, left the cattle gun behind and was on his way to retirement...
text: sort of...
text: Chigurh was in a vehicle accident shortly after.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/22071/Ben Johnson 
score: 3
sents: text: I googled the question and came upon this discussion and if it's up to speculation then I agree with him checking the boots.
text: That implies looking for blood and in addition no mentions the car wreck shorty after leaving her house.
text: If he killed her, he wouldn't want anyone to connect the dots of her murder and the car accident as they were only a few feet apart.
text: Him walking away versus waiting for medical attention.
text: Also adds to the fact that he did not want to be caught or connected to that location.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/26352/Jim
score: 2
sents: text: The point of that scene is he has no conscious and no qualms killing her.
text: The coin flip in a way shows he had a hint of remorse about killing her.
text: He definitely killed her.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/28523/Jeffrey Stein
score: 1
sents: text: His coin toss offer was a genuine offer to let her off the hook, just like the guy at the gas station.
text: The movie has left the outcome to the viewer's imagination so fill in the blank
text: anyway you like.
text: I prefer not to have to fill in blanks and am going with what's in the book.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/40282/Juan Lizzo
score: 1
sents: text: The "issues" pointing to him killing Carla Jean Moss seem to be:
text: He's a psychopath/sociopath (sociopaths have a total lack of empathy)
text: He checks both of his boots when he's "leaving" the house and the that we see inside the house
text: has no blood up to that point.
text: His urgency to "leave the scene" points to that.
text: It's "what he
text: does"o
text: She refuses to engage in his coin toss and instead "leaves it up to him" (which, being who he is, was a bad choice) and her intransigence denied her of a 50/50 chance of living, so perhaps the director wanted the double emphasis of her stubbornness and his evil nature to more than suggest that he did kill her.
text: And, as someone else pointed out, apparently the book makes it clear that...
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/48263/Nathaniel Hummel
score: 1
sents: text: Chigurh did break into the house and is wanted by the sheriff.
text: He might want to get away even if he didn't kill her.
text: The movie is intentionally ambiguous.
text: Maybe she convinced Chigurh not to kill her.
text: Maybe he's a changed man.
text: Odd that he would check for blood on his shoes
text: (that's why he puts his feet up) if he didn't kill her.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/27916/user27916
score: 0
sents: text: I wonder if he did kill her, he didn't kill the two boys who could identify him just down the street from where a body is soon to be discovered?
text: I think he left her alive and that's why he didn't need to harm the boys either.
text: The boots being checked on the way out is just a smokescreen.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/47931/John
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
In the film it is not 100% definitive but it is explicitly stated that he does in the book. He also checks both his boots for traces of blood while ''leaving'' the house. 
There is a lot of evidence proofing that he he killed her