investigators were convinced that the apartment key found in tamika huston s car held the secret to her disappearance, but it didn t open any of the apartment doors in the fremont school apartments, only a basement storage area. so investigators asked for a list of tenants, including those who had been evicted. and they showed that list to tamika s friends and relatives. you get to a point where you ve run out of more traditional leads, so you will pursue it, even if it is a somewhat unusual lead. her best friend mentioned there s this guy named chris that she started seeing around the time of her disappearance. there was only one person
door. hampton brought another woman back to his apartment who saw the bloodstain on the floor. the next day, hampton used a friend s car to transport tamika s body to the wooded area, where he buried her in a shallow grave. hampton rented a carpet cleaner and removed as much blood as he could, although he couldn t remove everything. large amounts of dna remained. later, when he abandoned tamika s car in a nearby apartment complex, he inadvertently dropped his own keys on the passenger side floor, a set of keys with a locksmith stamp that led straight to his front door. if we had not found out where that key went, we would probably still be looking for tamika.
he stands up and he says, let s go. we said, where are we going? are we going to the jail? or are you going to show us where she s at? he says, i ll show you where she s at. hampton led investigators to a wooded area about 12 miles away and pointed to the exact spot where he buried tamika s body. he said he was sure because he left a marker. he just said that he made a cross out of sticks that he found laying around on the ground and just laid them out on the ground in a cross pattern. in a shallow grave, investigators found a woman s remains. dental records confirmed it was tamika huston. this was really a difficult time for our entire family, to see my sister, like, suffer so much. you never really recover fully
because of that incident, tamika had filed an assault charge against moss, and she disappeared just two weeks before she was to appear in court. as we kept pressuring and pushing and repeating questions to him, he became agitated and finally just shut down from us and refused to talk to us completely. terence moss is prime suspect number one. yeah. everybody knows that. did you know there is an oldest trick in the book? what? trick number one. look-est over there. ha ha. made-est thou look. so end-eth the trick. hey.. yes.. geico. fifteen minutes could save you. well, you know. from a simple misstep, to tripping over a rug, to just losing their balance. and not being able to get up from a fall can have
the dna test left no doubt. the blood was tamika s. when confronted with this evidence, hampton again denied any involvement. whatever happened to tamika happened right there in your apartment. how do you know that? it can be anybody s blood. no, it can t be anybody s blood. how long do you think we ve been doing this? you don t know that we can tell one person s blood from another blood? i doubt it. you ever heard of dna? yeah. but prosecuting a case without a body is never easy. her body has not turned up. you have pets abused. no contact with your family. and an injury that led to a loss of blood. and your car has been abandoned. that s pretty good circumstantial evidence that something bad happened to you. but you still have murder, manslaughter, involuntary,