When Tamika Huston vanished, a trail of evidence led South Carolina investigators on a yearlong search to find her. Their discoveries would reveal a shocking murder and unexpected killer, but Huston's story would spotlight concerns faced by families of missing women of color and the lack of national media attention given to their cases.
Woman's disappearance spotlights the lack of national media attention on missing women of color Stephanie McBee and Alex BerenfeldWhat really happened to Tamika Huston? Take a look into the stunning investigation, never-before-seen video, shocking vision and the emotional impact of the case in an all-new "20/20."
A new "20/20" airing Friday, September 27, on ABC and streaming the next day on Hulu, features new interviews with Huston's loved ones and investigators who worked the case. Huston's ex-boyfriend, Terence Moss, who came forward to offer his assistance in the investigation, became the police's first person of interest.
"It was a code that he recognized that he had created," Lamb said. "It was his own little coding system, so he knew he had made that key." "The investigators found a really big bleach stain, which is Latin for, 'I'm covering something up,'" Trey Gowdy, the Spartanburg Solicitor at the time, said. Police also received a crucial piece of evidence from Hampton's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child in June 2005. She said that Hampton mailed her his wallet for safekeeping when he was sent back to jail for a parole violation related to an earlier bank robbery conviction. The ex-girlfriend said she found a photo in Hampton's wallet that had a spot of blood and turned it over to police. Tests revealed the blood matched positively to Huston.
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