michele's dna and dental records are entered into international databases. people still call in with tips and theories, and we talk to everybody. psychics still call us with ideas so the state police will always look into where michele harris is. up next, a nursing student disappears. >> it is really a mystery as to where she vanished. >> and her ex-boyfriend is the prime suspect. >> i'm telling the police, i'd really like you to take a look at him. >> but without a body, is there even a case? >> you don't have a crime yet. what is the crime? >> the only real set of clues is the keys. the trick to investigators is finding out which door they might open. >> the keys are a mystery at this point. ♪ ever since she was a little

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

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

not knowing where my daughter is, hoping and thinking that she's okay and safe. >> police checked tamika's cell phone and credit card records and there had been no activity during the time she was missing. tamika's ex-boyfriend, terence moss, went to police and offered his assistance. he had been living with tamika until three months earlier when they broke up. >> there was an incident at her house where she accused him of hitting her and striking her. >> how many ever flares can go off in a law enforcement officer's mind, that's how many would have gone off with terence moss. >> moss said he knew nothing about tamika's disappearance, although he admitted the assault, claiming it was a one-time incident. >> i punched her. i actually punched her. and i fell down on my knees and i started praying. and i was like -- there are so many demons in here that we're becoming physical with each other now, that we just need to separate.

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one month had passed since tamika huston disappeared, and police were no closer to finding her. >> she could still be alive. we don't know. there was still kind of like an undercurrent of a sense of hope. >> then, a tenant in a nearby apartment complex called police with a tip. >> fliers were distributed all over spartanburg. tamika huston's face became very familiar to people in this area. a woman saw the flier and saw a description, the picture of the car there and said there looks like a car parked behind the barksdale apartments. >> and she was correct, it was tamika's car, parked just four

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

belonged to the person responsible for her disappearance. >> the keys were dusted for fingerprints but none were found. then, investigators noticed a code on one of the keys. >> it had a special stamp on it, stamped with aa14, nothing with who cut the key, who put the stamp on it. it just had a stamp. >> the investigator took the key to all the locksmiths in the area. miraculously, one of them was able to identify it. >> he said, "i can tell you who i made it for." he pulls his records out. after looking for awhile, he finds who the code was. it was for freemont school apartments. >> fremont school apartments was once a local elementary school, and the government converted it into some public housing. >> detectives tried the key in each of the 46 apartments. strangely, it didn't open any of them. but it did open a storage area

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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

named chris on the tenant list, christopher hampton. he'd been evicted from the fremont apartments one month after tamika disappeared. he also had a police record. he served four years in prison for bank robbery. investigators located chris hampton. he was in prison, serving a 30-day sentence for a parole violation. but records showed he was free at the time of tamika's disappearance. when questioned, hampton said he knew tamika, but he didn't know where she was. >> she said i'm going to bike week. >> did she say who she was going with? >> no. that was the last time i saw her. >> hampton's prints did not match the partial print found in her car. but investigators got a huge break when hampton's former girlfriend, the mother of his two young children, called police. she said hampton mailed her his

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.

>> 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,

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ex-boyfriend, terence moss, was no longer considered a suspect. that's because police found tamika's blood in a wallet belonging to chris hampton, a man who tamika had been dating at the time of her disappearance. hampton once lived in apartment 215 of the fremont school apartments. but more than a year had passed and another family was now living there. then, a young woman called police to say she was inside apartment 215 with chris hampton around the time of tamika's disappearance. and she had seen something suspicious. >> there was a large brownish-red stain on the floor in the bedroom. and that the dresser was pulled over in front of the closet door, which was odd. >> investigators obtained a search warrant and found evidence of a cleanup in the

master bedroom, just as she described. >> whenever law enforcement sees bleach, they think cleanup crime scene, cleanup blood. so you start to peel away the carpet. and when we pulled the carpet up, there was a large reddish-brown stain that was in the back of the carpet and in the padding on the floor. >> this stain tested positive for human blood. and they found more blood elsewhere in the apartment. >> not only was there blood in the bedroom, there was blood in the closet, which was, in some instances, even more interesting. how would a blood stain get inside a closet? >> analysts sprayed luminol in every room of the apartment and found even more blood. >> you just know that this is where something really bad and really violent happened. you immediately know that she

was moved from here and taken into the closet and laid in the closet, because the one in the closet is the perfect size of a head. >> dna testing confirmed the blood was tamika's. >> it just took all the life out of me, because i knew that my daughter was in an apartment and there was enough blood that my daughter could have died. >> the blood evidence and information provided by the young woman gave investigators a picture of what happened. >> he sticks her in a closet and goes and gets a girl and has sex with her and enjoys a meal and then has to figure out how am i going to get this body out of my apartment? >> when investigators confronted chris hampton, he initially had nothing to say. but he must have realized the weight of the evidence against him because he made police an offer.

>> 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

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

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.

>> i imagine that the police officer wanted to probably kiss this locksmith, if not do more than that when he said that, "yeah, i recognize this key." >> at first, hampton claimed it was an accident. >> i'm not telling you that he premeditated it. i'm telling you that he struck a blow with malice that resulted in her death. and if you doubt for one second whether or not that's true, look at what he did after it happened. >> chris hampton changed his mind on the first day of his trial. >> are you guilty of the crime of murder? >> yes, sir. >> christopher hampton pled guilty the morning we were set to draw the jury. and i was surprised that he pled guilty. >> as a result, hampton was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> he came as close to getting away with it as aa14 stamped on a key.

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