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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 3, 2020 19:57:13 GMT -5
Woman Who Allegedly Left Bar with Two Strange Black Men Found DeadInvestigators searching for Paighton Houston, a missing Alabama woman who texted she could be in trouble after leaving a bar with two black men last month, say they unearthed a female body. The shallow grave was discovered in the backyard of an apparently vacant home in Hueytown by officers looking for the 29-year-old woman last seen at a Birmingham bar on Friday, December 20. According to The Birmingham News, the intact body was wrapped in some sort of fabric.
“Right now we have a lot more questions than answers, but we hope to have those answers real soon,” Chief Deputy David Agee of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said. “We’re going to work hard and we’re going to find out what happened.”
On Thursday, January 2, Charlaine Houston, Paighton’s mother, linked to a story about the Hueytown search on her Facebook page. “Bring Paighton home,” she posted Friday before the discovery of the corpse was reported. Mrs. Houston has also accused the Grace Cross, who claims she saw Paighton leaving the bar with two strange black men, of repeatedly changing her story. Houston, of Trussville, allegedly left the Tin Roof bar with the men and later texted Cross, who told police “she didn’t know these people and she was in trouble.”
A tipster led investigators to the location where the body was found. Neighbors said the property belonged to an elderly man who lives elsewhere. It is unclear who, if anyone, lives there now.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey posted a $5,000 reward for information in Houston’s disappearance. Another $5,000 in reward money was being offered by Crime Stoppers.
Law enforcement officers reviewing video tapes from the Tin Roof Bar on the night in question have been unable to find two men fitting the description provided by Grace Cross. There are also rumors Cross and her boyfriend killed the young woman and buried her body behind a vacant house owned by the boyfriend’s grandfather.Sources: Robert Gearty, Fox News, January 3, 2020, and ABC News.
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Post by pat on Jan 4, 2020 2:06:57 GMT -5
If it turns out that friend of hers lied about her leaving with two black men, Al Sharpton and his band of trouble-makers will descend on Birmingham.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 17, 2020 18:02:38 GMT -5
Suspect Sought in Paighton Houston DeathFrederick Hampton, 50, the man suspected of disposing of Paighton Houston’s body behind a vacant house in the Bessemer neighborhood of Hueytown, has a criminal history including convictions for rape and sodomy. Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of abuse of a corpse and violation of the Registered Sex Offender Notification Act.
During a news conference Thursday, Deputy Chief David Agee said Hampton was with Houston the night she was last seen. “We have evidence the victim and offender were together the night of December 20, 2019,” he told reporters. “We have evidence the victim died the next day at a house on McClain Street in Brighton. We have evidence that after the victim died, her body was disposed of in a criminal manner by Fredrick Hampton.” Houston’s cause and manner of death have not been determined but according to Agee, “no physical trauma of the body of the victim would have led to her death.”
Hampton, who is 5'11" and weighs around 180 pounds, has a criminal record dating to 1989 when, at the age of 20, he was found guilty of traffic violations and carrying a pistol without a permit. Two years later, he was arrested and charged with rape and sodomy, found guilty and sentenced to 20 years and 6 months in prison. According to the Alabama Department of Corrections, Hampton had served 20 years, 5 months and 26 days when he was released in March 2012. Three months later, he was arrested and charged with failure to register as a sex offender. In November, he received a two-year suspended sentence and was placed on probation. At the time of Houston’s death, Deputy Chief Agee said Hampton was current in his registration as required by the Sex Offender Notification Act.
Houston’s body was found buried in a shallow grave on Chapel Drive two weeks after she was reported missing. Hampton was familiar with the area because, Agee reported, “it is quite possible and believed that [Hampton’s] relatives own that property where the body was disposed.”
Sources: Morgan Hightower, WBRC, January 17, 2020, and WAFF, January 16, 2020.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 30, 2020 20:01:17 GMT -5
Paighton Houston Died of Accidental Drug Overdose
Paighton Houston, who disappeared from a Birmingham bar and was later found buried in the backyard of a Hueytown home, died of a drug overdose, authorities announced Thursday morning. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office determined the 29-year-old woman’s death was accidental, the result of morphine and methamphetamine toxicity. “This represents an overdose and is classified as a drug-opioid death,'” Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates wrote in his early-morning news release.
The announcement comes less than 12 hours after U.S. marshals captured Fredrick Hampton in Ohio. The 50-year-old black man is charged with abuse of a corpse in Houston’s death because he buried her following her accidental overdose.
Paighton Houston vanished Friday, December 20, after leaving the Tin Roof, a bar at 2709 7th Ave S. in Birmingham. She was last seen in the company of two heavy-set black males. According to Sgt. Johnny Williams of the Birmingham Police Department, she willing left with the men.
At 12:15 a.m. the following day, she sent Grace Hall, her co-worker, a text saying, “Idk who im with so if I call please answer. I feel in trouble.”
“We have evidence the victim and the offender were together the night of Dec. 20, 2019,” explained Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief David Agee in an earlier press conference. “We have evidence the victim died the next day at a house on McClain Street in Brighton. We have evidence that after the victim died, her body was disposed of in a criminal manner by Fredrick Hampton.” The body of the young woman was discovered Friday, January 3, wrapped in sheets and buried in a shallow grave behind a house on Chapel Drive that belongs to relatives of Hampton.
On December 28, Hampton was booked into the Birmingham City Jail on a 48-hour extension on suspicion of kidnaping, but was released two days later because investigators did not have enough to charge him with a crime.
According to Agee, it has now been determined Houston and Hampton were together on December 20 and 21, 2019, and there is “no evidence there was any force” involved.
Hampton has a long criminal history. In 1992, he was convicted of first-degree rape and sodomy in Jefferson County. He served 20 years and was released March 22, 2012. A sex offender notification indicates Hampton, “along with seven other men, committed Rape 1st and Sodomy 1st on an adult female.” Shortly after his release from prison, Hampton was arrested again for failure to provide authorities his new address, a requirement for convicted sex offenders.
Sources: Carol Robinson, AL.com, January 30, 2020, and The Associated Press, January 30, 2020.
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Post by pat on Jan 31, 2020 22:54:54 GMT -5
So she was just a trashy drug addict.
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