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Sweet potato and The Wire led police to suspect in cold case murder [1]

['David Pescovitz']

Date: 2023-02-28

Massachusetts police charged Devarus Hampton, 40, in the murder of Todd Lampley who was shot way back in 2011. At the scene of Lampley's death, police had found a sweet potato. Fans of the TV series The Wire will recall that in one episode, a murderer used a potato as a gun silencer. And a dozen years later, Hampton was using a mobile phone under the alias of Marlo Stanfield, a ruthless gangster character from The Wire. Ooops.

From KMOV:

According to officials, the sweet potato had Hampton's DNA on it.

Prosecutors say they can place Hampton at the home at the time of the murder because of data from a GPS monitor he was wearing due to a previous crime.

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