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And our guys were out mowing on 75.

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And came across a weird looking sleeping bag,

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and there's something in it that's tied up.

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The spot where they found this sleeping bag,

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it's a row of pine trees along Interstate 75.

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I walked up and picked the bag up

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and realized that it was something heavy in the bag.

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The size of the bag, we thought maybe it was somebody's dog

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that they had put in the bag.

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what if it's a child in there?

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We figured we'd better call patrol.

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We didn't want to open it up.

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The Ohio State troopers showed up.

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And then he opened the bag up and looked in there.

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He did a double take.

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He's like, I just, I got to look again.

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And he's like, that's definitely a foot in there.

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The remains consisted of the lower portion of the body.

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I had attached legs and buttocks.

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But everything from the umbilicus up was gone.

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It had been severed.

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The person that did this, what are they

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thinking when they are separating a human body

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into pieces?

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What's going through their mind?

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Humans are capable of very vile acts.

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I'm going to go back to the room.

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I'm going to go back to the room.

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This is where my son David's funeral service was held.

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This auditorium was absolutely packed.

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Standing room only.

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People lying on the walls all in the hallway.

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It was really, really overwhelming to see that many people

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were able to think that David touched that many people.

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What up everybody?

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It's your boy Dave Carter from Lavish Have a Son Limited.

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I have things I want to accomplish today, tomorrow,

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five years down the line, ten years down the line.

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And I have confidence in myself.

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Once I accomplish my goals, I move on to the next.

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David was 39 when he was killed.

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He was a fun loving person.

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Serious but fun loving.

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Tall, handsome, athletic.

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David was my best friend.

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David was the person I would call for any advice.

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He took pride in everything that he did.

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David worked very, very hard.

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He had a full-time job at a manufacturing plant.

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And on the side, he started his own clothing line

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called Lavish Habits Unlimited.

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When David and I met, we were nine years old.

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David was a best friend to me.

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He was someone that I could trust.

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But we definitely always kept it a platonic relationship.

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We had a boundary there.

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David always, you know, wanted to grow up

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and have a family and be married.

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He was always a very stand-up guy.

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And once he became a father, it upped a level.

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Everything was geared around his son.

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He was a very involved father with DJ.

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The relationship with me and my dad, I would say,

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we were like best friends.

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We were always doing something together.

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Our bond was just something that you just couldn't break.

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I had no idea I liked David when I first seen him.

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He was funny. He just made me laugh.

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We just started going out and having a good time.

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I was 19.

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He must have just turned 20.

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When DJ was born, David was excited.

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I don't even think he had a good look at DJ

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before he ran out in the hallways just screaming,

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I got a boy.

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David and I were off and on from 2000 to 2014.

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But we remained close as co-parents for DJ.

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After that, David had lots of female friends.

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He definitely had a share of relationships and girlfriends.

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Then in the middle of March of 2018,

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David walked up with this young lady that I had never seen before.

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He came up, he introduced her.

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This is my friend Tammy.

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Tammy and David had went to high school together.

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They reconnected at a mutual friend's birthday party,

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which eventually turned into a relationship.

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Tammy worked for the Detroit Medical Center.

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Also, Tammy was a travel agent.

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And she did tell me that she had twins.

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She had a son and a daughter who were 18 at the time.

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Tammy and I met in high school.

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David, Tammy and I were all in the same graduating class.

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Her personality in high school was very bubbly.

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At that time, she was pretty solid as a friend.

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But after high school, a lot of us went our separate ways.

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Around March of 2018,

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I found out that David and Tammy were dating.

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And it was a braw razor.

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But as friends, we want the best for each other.

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And if David was happy, I was happy for him.

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They were spending a lot of time together,

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like being with her every day,

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as if you thought, okay, maybe this is probably the one

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that my dad is going to be with and marry.

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I could say that David seemed happy.

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I believe they had fun.

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I believe they had a good time within them six months

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that they had been together.

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But she was very obsessive over David.

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I don't try to get too involved with my children's affairs

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of the heart, but when we did have a gathering,

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she would watch David, you know,

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if he was talking to somebody else,

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she would keep an eye on him.

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Every day, every day we saw David, we saw Tammy.

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She wasn't far behind.

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I didn't care for Tammy from the moment I met her.

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Everybody thought, oh, you're the crazy little sister,

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you know, you don't like nobody.

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And I'm like, well, that very will may be,

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but I know I don't like her.

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On September 30th, it was just our average normal Sunday.

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DJ was preparing to go to his dad's house for the evening.

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And then I got a text message from David saying,

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I don't feel good.

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I'm not sure what's wrong.

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And, you know, I don't think that DJ should be there.

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I don't know what's wrong.

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And, you know, I don't think that DJ should come over here tonight.

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I tried to text him myself.

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I was like, replies back from my dad saying he was sick

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and like very sick to where like,

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he don't want anybody around him.

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DJ said, well, I have some stuff at my dad's apartment

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I need to get.

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And I said, okay.

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When I put it up to my dad's house,

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I seen Tammy taking out the garbage.

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I said, you know, hey, you know, whatever.

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She's seen me.

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And she ran to the apartment door, like ran.

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And when I got to my dad's house, the door was locked.

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You'd have thought since she saw me, she'd have left it on lock.

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But I had a key.

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So I went in and she came up to me first, like, you know,

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hey, DJ, what's going on?

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So I asked her, like, hey, have you seen my charges to my phone, whatever.

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She said, no, I haven't seen it.

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And I've noticed my dad's bedroom door was closed, which was odd.

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And then she closes his bathroom door as well.

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Thought that was kind of weird.

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I say, you know, since I'm at my dad's house, let me just, you know, say what's up to him, you know, stuff like that.

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And she told me, like, nah, he's not here. He went off for a walk.

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Thought in my head, like, it's pretty weird.

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Who's, you know, sick.

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It's cold outside. Who goes for a walk.

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Didn't make any sense.

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But I have to make it to my grandmother's house.

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And I just left.

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I've known David for 19 years.

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We met at a plant working together for 10, 12 hours a day, and we became real close.

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Last time I seen Dave was that Thursday.

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We had to work Sunday.

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But Dave, they didn't come to work Sunday.

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That was just out of the ordinary the day that Miss Double time.

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When Tuesday came around, Dave ain't been to work in three days.

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I was like, nah, something ain't right.

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On Tuesday, I got a call.

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Roger said this is his third day not coming to work.

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So, you know, can you go by his apartment just to see if he was okay?

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So I called his phone, went straight to voicemail,

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and I called David's girlfriend, Tammy.

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I said, hey, is David okay?

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She said, I haven't talked to him since Sunday.

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So, Derek, my husband and I, we went over to David's apartment.

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We see David's cars in a parking lot.

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We get to the door, knocking on the door.

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Nobody's coming to the door.

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So I went to grab the door handle and you can open the door.

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So I started freaking out.

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Like, why is it open?

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He always locked this apartment up.

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At that point, I knew that something wasn't right.

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So I called my dad and I called Samia, DJ's mom as well.

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Teja said, Dad, I got a phone call from David's job,

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one of his coworkers said that he haven't been to work in three or four days,

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and I'm like, what?

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We all got to the apartment.

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I was looking around and I was thinking,

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David would never leave his apartment like this.

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He would never ball his sheets up and just stick them in a closet.

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We get to David's room and the bed isn't made.

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My brother's a neat freak.

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David would never leave without making a bed.

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So I look under the bed.

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And it's a big, huge, red stain.

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And I could tell that the bed had been moved to like cover the stain because it's carpet.

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And indentation, you know, from the bed sitting so long,

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you could tell that it had been moved.

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And I pulled up the comforter off the bed,

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and that's when I seen what appeared to be blood.

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And at the top of the mattress, there was a hole.

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I walked around, there was a hole in the bottom left hand corner of the closet door.

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Being a soldier, I knew it was a bullet hole.

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I realized that, okay, something's wrong here.

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I told everybody, everybody out.

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We went to Melvendale Police and filed a missing persons report.

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We're searching, calling hospitals.

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I'm calling morts.

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This afternoon, Michigan State Police crime scene investigators were searching for clues near Outer Drive at Allen Road.

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Melvendale Police taped off the apartment.

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They had a front loader out there.

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They were actively going through the dumpster, you know, checking garbage bags and stuff like this.

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In the meantime, you know, we're just waiting for a word from if anybody found it.

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And I got on Facebook.

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If anybody's seen David, y'all please let me know.

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When David Carter didn't show up for work earlier this week, his family sounded the alarm.

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Police Department and the family are looking for a new home.

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That Tuesday night, after we saw the stain and the bullet hole, I called Tammy and I said,

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Tammy, I'm going to ask you one more time.

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Where is my brother?

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And she said, Teja, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Like, I haven't seen him since Sunday.

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And she showed no concern as to where he was.

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I said, OK, if I find out you had something to do with my brother and me not being able to find him,

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we're going to have a whole problem.

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Tammy was at work.

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She just went about her day, just like it was a normal day.

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She was on social media a few times.

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She basically was just living a normal life.

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I was just like, OK, I'm going to ask you one more time.

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I'm going to ask you one more time.

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She was on social media a few times.

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She basically was just living a normal life.

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It was unbelievable to me for a person that had been with him almost every day for six months

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for her not to leave work and show up with us and help find David.

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She was nowhere to be found.

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You're his girlfriend.

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You don't seem to be as worried as everybody else.

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An ODOT employee discovered a sleeping bag along the side of I-75.

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The Hancock County Coroner has ruled the human remains found on I-75 a homicide.

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They suspect the victim might have been on the side of the highway for a few days.

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Investigators are reviewing missing person reports.

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Grass mowers from ODOT, Ohio Department of Transportation,

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had found a sleeping bag in the weeds by the Burma the Road on off of I-75.

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Inside the sleeping bag was the dismembered lower end of the body.

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All I had was a lower torso and legs.

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It looked to me like this male was either black or biracial.

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His inseam measured 36 inches.

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That's a pretty tall person.

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During the autopsy we found a very characteristic tattoo on the left upper leg.

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It was a tattoo of a pit bull with red eyes.

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That's unusual.

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So we sent that photograph up to Melvendale, Michigan, which is where there was a missing person.

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The chief of police of Melvendale called me and asked me to come down.

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Because he had some questions to ask me.

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It was a tattoo that he was very, very interested in.

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I told him he had the tattoo of a pit bull on his leg.

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And I asked the chief, I said, you found him.

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He said, yeah.

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For me being a soldier, death is something that's part of life.

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It's inevitable.

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Just I never thought it would happen to a family member in this manner.

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Tough.

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Tough.

281
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Really, really tough.

282
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I assisted Mr. Carter over to the police department.

283
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I never forget.

284
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It was just so, so many emotions.

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So I'm driving back from the police station.

286
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I don't want to see Taz your face.

287
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My husband's driving and he pulls up and I see it all over his face.

288
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You know, I see it like all over his face and he gets out and he just grabbed me and he just said boo he gone.

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I had no words.

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Like I really felt like I had been gut punched.

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My concern was his mother.

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All of the things that I've been through, I've done, there's nothing I can think of anything that was harder than telling her that it was our son.

293
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She just broke down.

294
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It's like everything's like drained out of her.

295
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Nothing I could do.

296
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But hold it.

297
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So that's all I could do.

298
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I asked my uncle like, what happened, you know, because I wanted to know he wouldn't tell me at first.

299
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I'm like, you know, what happened? Like you have to tell me, like it's my dad, you know.

300
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And he said, yeah, they found your dad, but they found him chopped up.

301
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Those parts chopped up.

302
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,320
I just walked away and did not want to look at nobody.

303
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I'm literally like on the side of the car slouched down, sitting on the grass crying, full of anger and sadness.

304
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My father was a person that I looked up to ever since I was born.

305
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I had never felt so numb.

306
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:08,320
The friend and the sister in me wanted to get to the bottom of it.

307
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,320
Who did this to you?

308
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I'm putting all my girls at Tammy because you're the last person that saw him.

309
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I'm like, okay, Tammy is the key. She knows what happened.

310
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A few weeks before David was murdered, he asked my female cousin, hey, you want to go to the movies?

311
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So they went to see the movie. My cousin drove.

312
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When they returned back to David's apartment, all four David tires were slashed.

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David was like, oh my God, like, you know, I believe that he knew then that Tammy had slashed his tires.

314
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Because she must have been mad that he took my cousin to the movies and didn't take her to the movies.

315
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Like, who does that?

316
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Angry female, that's how I talked to her. I just said, okay, she mad. She's that type of person, you know.

317
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When a person is jealous and when a person is selfish, there is no measure for what they'll do.

318
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On the Friday night before David disappeared, the whole family was at DJ's football game.

319
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That was the last time I saw David and the last time his sister's song, last time his son's song.

320
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:10,320
David and Tammy were already at the game when me and my husband arrived. David was watching the game.

321
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David was laughing and joking with us and hollering at the game at the same time.

322
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We were throwing popcorn and just having a good time at that game.

323
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David and Tammy had came to the game together but weren't together at the game.

324
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I asked my brother, are y'all okay? Like, why is she not coming down? He was like, you know, she'd be all right.

325
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I just thought maybe they got into an argument they wasn't talking.

326
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It took a moment and gazed around the stands and Tammy was looking dead in my face, like straight away in my face.

327
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And it just looked like I had saw the devil. It stuck with me to this day. I could still see the look on her face.

328
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:13,320
I believe my brother, David, broke it off with Tammy. I believe that night after the football game, whatever they were going through, that that was the last straw for him.

329
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,320
And he was just like, you know what? I can't do this anymore and she couldn't take it.

330
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:27,320
I believe she was jealous of David's relationship with everyone, with me, with his son, you know, with our parents.

331
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,320
I believe she was just ultimately jealous of anybody he had contact with.

332
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:38,320
But I never, never thought Tammy would be capable of murder. Never.

333
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:50,320
I think he was trying to figure out how to lead. It was taking him time to totally pull away. That's because she was so, so possessive.

334
00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:02,320
She knew that David wanted to break up and it sparked a madness about her. It's just, if I can't have him, can't nobody else have him.

335
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:15,320
I told the police to look into Tammy, but the police didn't tell us anything about what they were doing or what they have found.

336
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:34,320
A few days after we got the news about David, my nephew had his football game.

337
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:49,320
Heard Coach asked me, do you need time away from football? I told him, nah, because I'm not walking away from that. That's not something that my father would want me to do.

338
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The night of the game, it was, it was rocking. Everyone showed me love, family and friends. They all sat next to each other on the stands. It's like, it's like the whole stands were family.

339
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There's a quote that my dad told me was, whatever happens, just keep on going, no matter what. So, before that game, I told myself that I'm going to play. I'm going to play for him.

340
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:36,320
It's so crazy to say that it wasn't me playing. I really feel like it was him and me that was doing moves that I didn't really knew that I had in me, you know.

341
00:27:36,320 --> 00:28:01,320
During DJ's football game, my dad called me and my dad said, well, you know, I need to tell you something. And he was like, they got her and I'm like, they got who? And he like, they erased the Tammy.

342
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To find out that Tammy was arrested that night, it lifted everyone up. Like, it brought joy.

343
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We just couldn't believe it. Like, oh my God, like, they got her. We got some justice, you know, everybody full of tears and, you know, just happy.

344
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A couple of days later, she was released.

345
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The person of interest taken into custody on Friday has been released and according to Melvendale police confirming that information late tonight, their investigation is still ongoing.

346
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Tammy Williams was brought into Melvendale PD for questioning. There were some interviews conducted. She was released pending more investigation.

347
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I'm limited on what I can discuss because I don't want it to hinder our investigation.

348
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:23,320
But what I can tell you is that they didn't have enough at that time to hold her in charge with a crime.

349
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:31,320
Having to let her go to me, I mean, that was like a kick in the stomach.

350
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:42,320
They can only hold her for 72 hours. You know, they have to locate the rest of, you know, his remains because they need a cause of death.

351
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,320
New developments tonight in the murder of a Melvendale father.

352
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More of his remains were discovered along I-75 south of Finley.

353
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They have found another body part off of the same interstate 75 at the first that was found.

354
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:12,320
They proceeded to send the second set up to us, which was in a little black duffel bag with red straps.

355
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:18,320
And in the bag there was a human head.

356
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:24,320
And it was wrapped in the small grocery bags with the handles.

357
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:32,320
And one of the grocery bags was tied under his chin.

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00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:45,320
We got the third call that they had found the rest of the remains in a little multicolored like suitcase.

359
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Big bright flowers on it.

360
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,320
And inside the suitcase there was a comforter.

361
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,320
And inside the comforter there was the third set of remains.

362
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:03,320
I had upper torso, two arms, two hands, all the fingers.

363
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,320
You could put the whole body together now.

364
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:16,320
He had a gunshot wound right here, below the ear lobe and sort of toward the back.

365
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,320
The wound went this way.

366
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,320
Exit was at the top of the head.

367
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:32,320
They had a single gunshot wound, very close range, almost near contact.

368
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,320
Now I had a cause of death.

369
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:42,320
There was no evidence of defense wounds, no evidence of a struggle,

370
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,320
no other evidence of injury anywhere.

371
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:52,320
You have a tall man, 190 pounds and he puts up no fight.

372
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,320
Did he not see the gun coming?

373
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,320
Was he asleep?

374
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,320
Was he incapacitated somehow?

375
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,320
I don't know.

376
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:06,320
Interestingly enough he had an antihistamine in his bloodstream.

377
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,320
That makes you sleepy.

378
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:18,320
I believe for him it was a quick death.

379
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:24,320
I think that on September 29th my brother went to bed.

380
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:33,320
Tammy had an extra key to my brother's apartment and I believe that she went in while my brother was asleep

381
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,320
and shot him in the head.

382
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:45,320
There were texts sent from his phone to make people think that it was him texting, but it was her.

383
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:54,320
I assumed the texts. In the beginning I assumed they were from him because I wouldn't have any other reason to think that they weren't.

384
00:32:54,320 --> 00:33:05,320
But when I went back and really read the text, how the text was worded, it wasn't how he would have worded that text.

385
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:15,320
After he died, I think the person responsible for the death was faced with a huge problem.

386
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:21,320
How do I get rid of a 190 pound 6 foot 4 man?

387
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,320
I can't carry him down the stairs.

388
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:30,320
The lower part of the remains alone weighed 73 pounds.

389
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:38,320
I think the dismemberment in this case was more logistical to move the body.

390
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:45,320
He had been separated by cuts, nothing like a saw.

391
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:54,320
These were, in my opinion, probably nothing more than your average kitchen knife.

392
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,320
But it took some time.

393
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:11,320
You cannot separate a body into three parts in a very short period of time with instruments like this.

394
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:20,320
The fact that she could not only shoot her boyfriend in the head, but cut up his body,

395
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:33,320
purchased the items that his body was ultimately found in, and then drive to scatter them along I-75.

396
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:44,320
And then wake up and go to work for the rest of the week. That tells me that she's a psychopath.

397
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,320
We just waiting on word for them to go pick up Tammy.

398
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:57,320
We had the memorial October 27th. Thanksgiving comes, Christmas comes.

399
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:12,320
Then it wasn't until January of 2019 that we found out that October of 2018, Tammy had fled Michigan.

400
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:20,320
Williams has been on the run since October. Tamara Renee Williams and police say she murdered and dismembered her boyfriend in Melvendale.

401
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:27,320
Tamara, if you're out there, turn yourself in, baby. You can't keep running.

402
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:33,320
And now a hunt is on. So intense, they've run on the U.S. Marshals.

403
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:42,320
U.S. Marshals get cases assigned to us basically for people committed heinous and serious crimes, and that are usually on the run for that crime.

404
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,320
And we go out and locate them and bring them to justice.

405
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:58,320
This case was extremely brutal because of the nature of it. This person was found in multiple pieces, and it takes a special individual to do that to somebody.

406
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:06,320
This was calculated. This was planned. This was thought out.

407
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:14,320
Tammy is accused with homicide, dismemberment, tampering with evidence, and felony firearm.

408
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:24,320
We're talking about a dangerous woman. The weapon that was used has not been recovered, so she's probably armed and dangerous.

409
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,320
I learned quite a bit about Tammy Williams during my investigation.

410
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:42,320
On October 16th, 2018, she was seen in Ann Arbor, Michigan. According to credit card receipts, made a couple cash withdrawals from an ATM, had dinner.

411
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:51,320
I can tell you, we have her on camera at the restaurant. And then after her meal, she sat there for quite some time and had some drinks and everything.

412
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:59,320
She went outside, loaded on a rickshaw, and had the rickshaw take her back to a hotel.

413
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:11,320
She then woke up the next morning, the morning of the 17th, went to the train station in Ann Arbor, took an Amtrak train from Ann Arbor to Chicago,

414
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:20,320
loads on a train there to Penn Station, New York, and checks into a hotel called the Neptune Hotel.

415
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,320
Nobody's looking for Tammy at this point.

416
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:33,320
When she checked into the hotel, she checked in in her name with her driver's license, stayed the night there, and got up the next morning.

417
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:43,320
On October 18th, she was seen on camera, leaving the hotel. And that's the last time she was seen.

418
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:52,320
Tammy Williams is a black female, 5'5", approximately 180 to 200 pounds. She's currently 42 years old.

419
00:37:52,320 --> 00:38:05,320
She's on Facebook and on Instagram. Tammy was always like the master of disguise. One day she had long hair, one day she had short hair, one day it was blind, one day it was brunette.

420
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:20,320
She could have short braids, she could be wearing wigs. The one thing that's common on her though, she's a huge rose tattoo on her left shoulder that basically goes from the elbow all the way up over the shoulder,

421
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:30,320
that rose bouquet is going to stand out. It's very distinctive and it's pretty difficult to miss, cover up, or remove.

422
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:43,320
But on top of that, let's just say hypothetically, she got it covered. That means there's a tattoo artist out there somewhere that covered that bunch of roses.

423
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:54,320
If Tammy was working a job right now, she was a traveler. She could have booked your trip to wherever. She could be working at a hospital. She could have taken your blood yesterday.

424
00:38:54,320 --> 00:39:09,320
Let's be honest, she's not afraid of blood. It's been a while since I've spoke to any members of her family, but every time I have it's no idea, haven't heard from her, haven't talked to her.

425
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:23,320
And I personally don't believe that. Somebody is helping her financially and also providing her with a roof, a place to stay. She just did not disappear.

426
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:32,320
Throughout my interviews with many different people, they've all said she's always been one of those girls that needs to have a guy in her life.

427
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:43,320
And that scares me, that this woman is still free after committing this crime and she could hurt somebody else.

428
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:51,320
I've thought about that plenty of times of going to my dad's bedroom that Sunday night.

429
00:39:51,320 --> 00:40:02,320
Maybe I should have went in there, but maybe it's probably a good decision to not go in there. Because I don't know, something in me was just saying like, don't go in there.

430
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:10,320
Something probably could have happened to me if I would have went in my dad's room.

431
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:19,320
The hunt is on as the U.S. Marshals put all hands on deck in this worldwide fugitive hunt.

432
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,320
And Tammy could be in a new relationship at this point.

433
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,320
Maybe she's dating another guy. You know, he could be at risk.

434
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:30,320
Family members of the young father are still praying Tamara will be found to face charges.

435
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:56,320
My son David Fero, many people spoke about him. It was really touching.

436
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,320
Life's day full of happiness and sometimes life is full of shit.

437
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,320
Yes it is.

438
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:15,320
And everybody was talking about David and how they knew him and giving my wife Marie and I their condolences and hugging us.

439
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:30,320
Marie, she quite naturally cried through the whole thing and I felt helpless trying to console her.

440
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:42,320
I always say like Tammy didn't just kill my brother, she killed my mother too because our mother was diagnosed with cancer six days prior to Tammy murdering David.

441
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:53,320
She was so heartbroken after he was murdered so she stopped going to her cancer treatment and my mom passed away.

442
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:03,320
There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of David.

443
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:19,320
I look at DJ. I started thinking about all the things that he's accomplished, all the things that he's doing and I say, man, if his dad was here, you know, he'd be so proud.

444
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:27,320
I was afraid. Now I'm at Eastern Michigan University playing football and I'm majoring in business management.

445
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,320
I was taking over my dad's clothing business.

446
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:43,320
I'm doing okay but there are thoughts that get to my head that almost made me want to break down sometimes.

447
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,320
Like wow, I don't have a father no more.

448
00:42:48,320 --> 00:43:01,320
If I had a few minutes with my dad right now, I would ask him if he's proud of me or where I'm at and I would tell him that I love him for sure and I miss him.

449
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,320
I miss him.

450
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:12,320
When David left us, it was like a black hole, like nothing or no one has been able to feel it.

451
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:21,320
You never know how much light somebody brings into a room until there's no longer there. So it's been dark.

452
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,320
Oh, how are you?

453
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:36,320
I miss the jokes and the laughs. I miss our talks, our fights. I just miss him. I miss everything about him.

454
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:46,320
I have faith that somehow, someway, somebody's going to see Tammy and she's going to be caught.

455
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:56,320
It's not going to bring David back, but it will at least allow us to let him rest in peace.

456
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,320
I'm Buffalo Jam and it's another Friday night, brother.

457
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,320
Somebody decided to get rid of Buffalo.

458
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,320
This is the room my father was found dead in.

459
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,320
They got him into a vulnerable situation.

460
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,320
We thought it was like a setup.

461
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,320
You never know what's going to happen.

462
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:34,320
Do you believe in Bigfoot? Do you believe in UFOs?

463
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,320
I was like, wow.

464
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:44,320
For them to say, Josh just got up and said he was going to the bathroom and never came back.

465
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,320
It doesn't make any sense to me. There's more to it than what they're saying.

466
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,320
I think Josh had secrets just like everybody else has secrets.

467
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,320
I wish that whoever knew those secrets would come forward.

468
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,320
You

469
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,320
You