More than a year of searching and waiting for answers may come to an end later this month.
An autopsy is expected to determine if skeletal remains found in a wooded area are the remains of Tamika Huston.
"They bear the characteristics of human remains. As for the exact idenity of those remains, again, that will have to be after analysis is completed in the laboratory," Capt. Billy Norris said.
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Rebkah Howard said Hampton left out critical details about what happened inside his apartment the day Tamika died.
She said Hampton didn't just throw an iron in Tamika's direction like he told the paper, but used a hot iron to "go upside Tamika's head."
She said he then let her bleed to death.
Howard said Hampton demonstrated this to Spartanburg Public Safety investigators during a statement he made while in custody.
"He clearly banged an iron upside her head and killed her, and he clearly demonstrated this to police. They have him on video demonstrating this," Howard said.
She said Hampton told investigators that he left the apartment, hoping Tamika would wake up and leave. She said that when Hampton returned and found she was still there, he wrapped her body in a blanket and stuffed it into a closet.
Howard said Hampton never went back to the scene to dig Tamika up and turn himself in, as he has claimed.
"No, he dug Tamika up. He says he took her skull and then dumped it in a dumpster, and we'll probably never recover all of her remains because of that," she said.
It's information she said the family wanted to keep private out of respect for Tamika. But now that Hampton has gone public, she feels she must set the record straight.
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