miles from tamika s home. no one living in the apartment saw her driving the car or parking it. inside, police found no forensic evidence, no blood and no sign of a struggle. the only clue was a partial fingerprint, which didn t match tamika s ex-boyfriend, terence moss, or anyone in the national fingerprint database. the car was not the treasure trove i m sure that police hoped for. but investigators did find a set of keys on the passenger side floor. you could see that one looked like an automobile key and one looked like a house key. none of the keys worked in tamika s car. so we thought maybe those were the keys to tamika s house. but they didn t work there either. the keys don t belong to tamika huston, so maybe they
it is perfectly acceptable for someone who doesn t want to call somebody to not call them. police in spartanburg, south carolina, went to tamika s house. her car was gone and the door was locked, but they gained access through an open window. in the back room, police found tamika s dog and a litter of puppies, all on the verge of starvation. i remember the detective coming and telling me that she loved animals and she would not have left her animals. there were no signs of violence and no indication where she had gone. police issued a be-on-the-lookout bulletin for tamika s car, a 1991 black honda. could have been a traffic accident off the side of a road, which would still be a tragedy, but it wouldn t be a criminal tragedy. family and friends put up missing person fliers all over town. as a mother, it is difficult
wallet for safekeeping, since he was not permitted to keep it in prison. she says, i have his wallet if y all want to come look at it. she told police she called because she d been following news stories about tamika huston s disappearance and was well aware that hampton had been living in the fremont apartments. she also said there was a tiny speck of blood on the wallet. if it wasn t for that media coverage there, that young lady may have never came forward. i examined the photograph, found the speck of potential blood, took it through the preliminary testing for blood, and it passed. but whose blood was it? to find out, investigators needed dna from tamika s family. in this case, we had the mother and the father. so you can quickly ascertain whether or not this unknown sample could have originated from an offspring from those two parents.
from losing someone in that way. it s like somebody had taken a pitchfork that s burning and sticking it to your chest, the side your heart is on. there is no other way to describe this pain. hampton told police that tamika stopped by his apartment while he was ironing his clothes. i got plans. i m going out. plans with who? they got into an argument. hampton said it was because he was seeing other women. hampton admitted he lost his temper and struck her in the head with his iron. a tiny drop of blood landed on the inside of his wallet. blood also dripped onto the carpet. the evidence shows hampton wrapped tamika s body in the bed sheets and put it in the closet. then he pulled his chest of drawers in front of the closet
girl, tamika huston wanted to be a professional singer. and many thought she had the talent to make it. she tried out for american idol, and she was devastated when she didn t make the first cut. realizing how difficult it was to make it in the entertainment business, at the age of 24, tamika decided to enter nursing school. when classes ended and summertime came, tamika finally had some free time. she didn t have class to report to. she didn t have a job to go to every morning. she was very spontaneous. she was the type of person to get in her car and kind of go. and that s what everyone thought happened when they couldn t get in touch with her. but after two weeks passed, her family became alarmed. i called police and said that there is clearly something wrong. i can t locate my niece. she is not returning my phone calls. tamika is 24 years old, and