Found Deceased MD - DaCara Thompson 19, res Lanham, car found w/purse, cash, ID, seen on vid parking 1800 blk Jasmine Ter walking twd Riggs, Hyattsville, 22 Aug 2025

[su5ie]

Yet, she entered his car willingly. My guess is she thought it was a legit "romantic" hookup or a consensual non-romantic hook-up. I can't see any other scenario at this point. Of course, it ended up non-consensual, and she wasn't able to get away.

I don't think it was volunteer work associated with her job.

jmopinion

Only other hypothetical scenario I can think of but it's far fetched and way out there is ,

Perp stated he was to meet an ex at the club but didn't if it was a true statement, could Decara be either the ex girlfriend ( highly unlikely) or friend of ex girlfriend

I still feel getting into a vehicle of what seems to be a stranger atm although I do feel there is a connection, given the hour it is given vibes of sex work , drug dealing or promise of bringing somewhere innocent like to a friend or younger love interest . Prehaps decara went to the club near closing time to see if she could see a current or ex - beau . Could there have been a hook up between the two exs if they existed? As I said far out there and currently lost in space

 

[su5ie]

Completely agree. He strikes me as a predator with a method.

He said something to coerce at least one woman to get into his vehicle. He took her home where others were sleeping - he's not worried that she will call out for help. He injured/ assaulted/ murdered. He removed that woman from his house without fear of being heard or seen, deactivated her phone, then a short drive to the river and over the bridge. If police have some extra time, they should probably scour the area under the bridge for evidence of other missing women.

Yes this stood out for me he didn't seek a secluded spot and seek to isolate the victim. He didn't have fear of being caught out . This in itself is weird .

 

[Lisbeth_S]

Yes this stood out for me he didn't seek a secluded spot and seek to isolate the victim. He didn't have fear of being caught out . This in itself is weird .

I had the same thought.
Even if (and we don't know yet) he has done it before, it clearly seems crazy to take an unwilling participant to his own house with a lot of people in it (if I understood correctly at least 4) if he planned to rape/kill her from the beginning.
Granted, criminals are not always of the smartest type and often some stuff they do defies any logic.

The other option is that there was no initial intent, and things went south at the house.

 

[CuriousCricket]

I'm old but do people go on real dates at 3am? Prostitution, or whatever you want to call money for sex, is much more likely. IMO

Years ago, once a club closed down, sometimes we would go out for breakfast and talk another hour or two. No sex, no physical contact at all.

 

[Elley Mae]

Seems odd that she left her car there if she thought or knew they would be driving east out 50 past Lanham(were she lived) to the Bowie area. Then he would have to drive her back to Hyattsville. Seems she would have taken her car out closer to home.

Maybe she was at the club and he was buying her drink she being under age.

Friends and I would go out for breakfast after the clubs closed, Double T dinner
Maybe he offered to take her to breakfast.



Jmo

 

[NervousNellie]

Was the disabled vehicle related? If not, seems a hell of a coincidence

I have wondered how long the vehicle was in that spot - maybe he parked next to that vehicle and used it to help hide his activities when he threw her off the bridge.

 

[NervousNellie]

I had the same thought.
Even if (and we don't know yet) he has done it before, it clearly seems crazy to take an unwilling participant to his own house with a lot of people in it (if I understood correctly at least 4) if he planned to rape/kill her from the beginning.
Granted, criminals are not always of the smartest type and often some stuff they do defies any logic.

The other option is that there was no initial intent, and things went south at the house.

Well, his roommates heard what sounded like "someone not enjoying sex" and didn't intervene, so it seems taking DaCara to his house full of people was not really a risk factor for him. I doubt they thought he was killing her. Regardless of what they thought was going on in that room, they did not intervene. We don't know -maybe they are scared of him; he's clearly violent.

At least the cousin has been forthcoming with media, and I assume she has also been forthcoming with LE. We will never know if they could have saved DeCara but I bet they know the answer to that and will carry that for the rest of their lives. They were in a very difficult situation; I like to think I'd have responded differently, but I realize I would have nothing to risk by intervening. (Except my immediate safety, I guess.)

 

[Soulmagent]

Was the disabled vehicle related? If not, seems a hell of a coincidence

It might have been unrelated but is it still ?

 

[Soulmagent]

Years ago, once a club closed down, sometimes we would go out for breakfast and talk another hour or two. No sex, no physical contact at all.

If we could have just got their number and texted safe from home , would we have just done that instead?

 

[CuriousCricket]

If we could have just got their number and texted safe from home , would we have just done that instead?

I don't know. My clubbing years were long before text, but I tend to think breakfast was sort of part of the ritual - with more than one group of friends. and in different towns. It was just something we did back in the day. Of course, in my experience, it was in groups. Not couples.

 

[CityKid]

I am absolutely thinking DaCara was not his first victim. Some kind of confidence made him know he could ensnare her, do whatever he did to her in his bedroom while others slept (or didn't) under the same roof, kill her and throw her body off a bridge. I'm thinking prior experience creates that kind of confidence.

I don't think she ever had a chance, so I really want to know what his play was to get her to climb into his SUV.

BBM and MOO. I agree. Per this link, he's had a D.C. driver's license since 2015. Most of his police history is DWI/driving related.

Maryland murder suspect previously charged in DUI case with expired DC ID, documents show

The man accused of murdering a Maryland woman, who was reported missing last month, faced charges relating to drunk driving, according to incident reports.

foxbaltimore.com

 

[AuDHD]

BBM and MOO. I agree. Per this link, he's had a D.C. driver's license since 2015. Most of his police history is DWI/driving related.

I agree JMO that this prob is not his first violent crime. I think- based purely on speculation- that it went like this:

She had agreed to spend some uh, time with him late that night in exchange for money. He probably never had any intention of paying her, but took her home and in the process of forcing himself on her, or arguing about payment, he killed her. Then he hurriedly turned off her phone & dumped her body over the bridge (and hoped LE didn’t knock on his door, I guess).

I think it was unintentional only because if his intention all along was to kill her, why only disable her phone at 5am at his house? Seems he knew to do that pretty quickly after she died, i believe LE said she died around the time the phone was turned off, but if he’d taken her home specifically to murder her, he’d probably have disabled her phone sooner, and not in his house… maybe he didn’t have access to the phone until she died? That may be.

 

[Inthedetails]

I agree JMO that this prob is not his first violent crime. I think- based purely on speculation- that it went like this:

She had agreed to spend some uh, time with him late that night in exchange for money. He probably never had any intention of paying her, but took her home and in the process of forcing himself on her, or arguing about payment, he killed her. Then he hurriedly turned off her phone & dumped her body over the bridge (and hoped LE didn’t knock on his door, I guess).

I think it was unintentional only because if his intention all along was to kill her, why only disable her phone at 5am at his house? Seems he knew to do that pretty quickly after she died, i believe LE said she died around the time the phone was turned off, but if he’d taken her home specifically to murder her, he’d probably have disabled her phone sooner, and not in his house… maybe he didn’t have access to the phone until she died? That may be.

Good point about the phone. If it was indeed in his car the whole time, he likely saw it and turned if off after he removed her from the house.

And if that is the case, it leads to the question of why she would willingly leave her phone in his car? I don't think she would. Was she inebriated? Forced out of car?

jmo

 

[Gemmie]

Thanks for bringing this forward.
I was thinking that the undies may provide dna of missing women.

Possible DaCaras undies were they as well.

Jmo

I'm thinking it's 100% likely her underwear were found in his bedroom as she was found naked. JMO I wonder what he did with the rest of her clothes and shoes?

 

[otto]

Comment: DaCara was meeting this man to do a good deed. At 3am.

Rebuttal: If DaCara was just meeting him to do some therapy session or whatever, why meet at the dollar store and travel to another location? Why leave her car elsewhere? Why lie about her whereabouts/intentions? If he needed to talk, use a phone. Go into a Starbucks or a diner or the dollar store, even. It doesn't make sense that she was meeting him to do some good deed and would do it in this way - at 3am, getting into his car, traveling to another location, and joining him in his bedroom. It doesn't necessarily need to have been a nefarious reason that they, but it wasn't just to offer him some sort of therapy or talk about how he could get government benefits.

DaCara's car was found parked in front of a fire hydrant on the wrong side of the street (facing the wrong direction). We have all probably done that at least once when we are in a hurry and we plan to be no longer than one or two minutes. That type of parking attracts police attention.

If she was buying drugs, and she was illegally parked, there's a good chance that police will spot the car during that alleged drug purchase - and now she's done something to attract police attention while she is purchasing illegal drugs. That doesn't add up.

If she was selling sex while illegally parked, same problem. She's involved in illegal activity while parking her vehicle in a way that attracts police attention.

Green = DaCara illegally parked vehicle
Red = suspect

 

[sds71]

Bail denied for man accused of killing missing Maryland woman found along highway

A man accused of killing a missing Maryland woman whose body was found off Route 50 was denied bail on Monday.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[TMich6811]

DaCara's car was found parked in front of a fire hydrant on the wrong side of the street (facing the wrong direction). We have all probably done that at least once when we are in a hurry and we plan to be no longer than one or two minutes. That type of parking attracts police attention.

If she was buying drugs, and she was illegally parked, there's a good chance that police will spot the car during that alleged drug purchase - and now she's done something to attract police attention while she is purchasing illegal drugs. That doesn't add up.

If she was selling sex while illegally parked, same problem. She's involved in illegal activity while parking her vehicle in a way that attracts police attention.

Green = DaCara illegally parked vehicle
Red = suspect

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Someone previously in the thread said this kind of parking is common in the overall area and wouldn’t have caused alert the same way as it may have elsewhere

 

[otto]

She parked her vehicle at 1.30am and got into the perps vehicle at 3.06am ???

Per this link, DaCara illegally parked her vehicle and was seen in surveillance video leaving that white SUV at 3:06 AM. At 3:47 AM she arrived at the suspect's home.

The walking distance/time from her vehicle to the suspect's vehicle is roughly 6-7 minutes. The distance/driving time from his vehicle to his house is roughly 33 minutes.

3:06 AM - DaCara steps out of her illegaly parked SUV
3:12 AM (6 minutes later) - DaCara arrives at his vehicle
3:47 AM (35 minutes later) - DaCara and suspect arrive at his house
5:00 AM cousin hears grunting noises from suspect's bedroom, assumes it is unwanted sexual activity

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/prince-georges-county/new-court-documents-reveal-disturbing-details-in-dacara-thompson-murder-case/65-526f9bbd-69ee-4e91-b3d7-2c5b44a0b29av

 

[otto]

Someone previously in the thread said this kind of parking is common in the overall area and wouldn’t have caused alert the same way as it may have elsewhere

That's what everyone thinks when they park illegally - what are the chances that an officer with time on his hands will drive past during the few minutes that a vehicle is parked illegally?

It happens everywhere all day long - but if someone plans to commit a crime, they will think twice about parking illegally to commit that crime. They don't want to do anything that will attract unnecesssary attention. If buying drugs that will be transported in that vehicle, the last thing they want is an officer and a tow truck taking their vehicle away.

 

[crcap]

That's what everyone thinks when they park illegally - what are the chances that an officer with time on his hands will drive past during the few minutes that a vehicle is parked illegally?

It happens everywhere all day long - but if someone plans to commit a crime, they will think twice about parking illegally to commit that crime. They don't want to do anything that will attract unnecesssary attention. If buying drugs that will be transported in that vehicle, the last thing they want is an officer and a tow truck taking their vehicle away.

She’s also a teenager and I know when I was a teen I didn’t even really think about if I was parking illegally or not, I just parked however was convenient for me