MEMPHIS, TN - A Memphis mother worries her son's killer may never be brought to justice.
It's been nearly two years since family members found Chris Carmicle's body in the trunk of a car on the Memphis police impound lot. Officers said they towed the car from a vacant home in Frayser, but they never searched the trunk.
Carmicle's mom says there have been no leads and two years later she's left with many questions but no answers from investigators.
“He's nobody to them, but that's my baby and I know somebody knows something” says Tommye Wilder, who has harsh words for Memphis Police.
“They act as if Chris did not exist.”
The last time Tommye saw her son alive was on November 18th, 2007.
Three days later, a car owned by Chris's aunt was found outside what was a vacant home on Point Church Avenue.
Police towed the car to an impound lot. They said the trunk was not searched because it was locked and Chris had not yet been reported missing.
Tommye says she thought Chris had left town for work, but by the first week of December, she grew concerned. She filed a report and went out to the impound lot to investigate.
“I said to myself if Chris had been in this car this long we would know because there should be some type of odor coming from it, but there wasn't any. No odor, no anything.”
When Chris's brother pulled out the back seat to check the trunk, he made a grisly discovery.
“At that point, I don't know I think I just fell apart because.. he was there” says Tommye Wilder.
Chris had been shot in the face and in the shoulder. He was naked except for a pair of socks.
Tommye says a time of death was never confirmed, so she wonders what condition Chris was in when he was put in the trunk.
“What if he was waiting? What if he was alive?” she says. “And nobody came to help him. Nobody.
Memphis Police are still tight lipped about this case. Eyewitness News tried to contact the lead investigator, but never heard back from him.
