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Spartanburg, SC
Christopher Hampton Pleas Guilty: Admits Killing Tamika Huston
April 6, 2006 06:10 AM PDT
When Tamika Huston disappeared back in May 2004, her family knew something had gone wrong. They passed out fliers and investigators with the Spartanburg Public Safety Department drained ponds and searched wooded areas for her. A TV crew from FOX's America's Most Wanted even profiled the case, but still no clues, not until investigators found a set of key in Tamika's abandoned car.
Those keys belonged to her ex-boyfriend, Christopher Hampton. "We were desperately looking for my daughter and he said nothing! He said nothing; that was just plain evil," said Gabriella Simenehe, Tamika's mother. Now clean-cut, dressed in a blue shirt and khakis, and bound with handcuffs, Hampton walks into a Sparatanburg courtroom a killer.
"Hampton spun around and hit her in the head with a hot iron. According to him,she fell to the ground. Hampton then rolled her up in a comforter and put her in the closet while he borrowed bleach from a neighbor," said Trey Gowdy, solicitor. While Tamika was stuffed in Hampton's closet dying, he drank a couple of beers and then had sex with a 15 year-old girl.
Later, he took off Tamika's clothes, put her in a car and buried her in a wooded area in Spartanburg County. Months later he went back to the grave and removed her head. "Taken my daughter's skull and some of her remains, placed them in a plastic bag then throwing it in a dumpster like it was his trash," commented Tamika's mother.
The details are overwhelming for Tamika's father, Anthony Huston. "Your honor, this has totally destroyed my life. I remember when my baby was a little baby," said Huston as he cried.
"Mr. Hampton, the sentence of the court is that you'd be committed to the state department of corrections for life," said Judge John Few. Her best friend, Zelda Teamer says she can't believe Tamika is gone. "I felt he wasn't compassionate in the courtroom. He act like it didn't even bother him and that's still traumatic to me." However, Prize Funk, Tamkia's uncle, says the family is satisfied with Hampton's punishment. "I don't hate him, I hate what he's done and I hate what he's caused, the pain he's caused," commented Funk.
Christopher Hampton will spend the rest of his life in prison. He'll have to serve every single day because he isn't eligible for parole.