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Carman & Clarence Jenkins killed and dismembered Mekole Harris

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Time for another South Carolina news moment! (toots own horn) Sorry I've been lax, but I've been quite sick lately.

Two Harris sisters were quite surprised when they stepped outside of their homes Monday morning. In those locations, separated by a good two mile drive, were the hands and feet of a then unknown person.

Well, an ID's been made. It would seem that their sister, Mekole Harris, is only partly missing.

That's right. Police were able to make an identification using the fingerprints they were able to lift off the hands they found wrapped in garbage bags and kindly deposited with the family's trash.

News is that this will be ruled a homicide... provided the rest of Mekole can be found.

Her mother claims that Mekole mentioned last week that 'someone wanted to kill her.'

Looks like she was right.
 
Wends, i hope you're feeling better!

and, um.. Mekole has a nice mugshot, anyway. I hope they find the rest of her soon. It'd kind of suck if someone was just keeping her alive while they cut off the extremities. Any chance the ends were cauterized?

Yes, i do have a sick mind. Why do you ask? :)
 
I would hate to meet this victim in a dark alley ... with or without hands and feet.

I laughed when, the first night on the news here, the reporter says, "It hasn't been determined yet if a murder has been committed."

Unless she had signed up to be a practice patient for the Amputation 101 class at the local tech college, I think I'll stick with the murder theory.
 
Zora said:
I would hate to meet this victim in a dark alley ... with or without hands and feet.

I laughed when, the first night on the news here, the reporter says, "It hasn't been determined yet if a murder has been committed."

Unless she had signed up to be a practice patient for the Amputation 101 class at the local tech college, I think I'll stick with the murder theory.
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I dunno, y'all, I think it could have been a death from natural causes......if you want to consider meanness a natural cause, that is. :D
 
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Trash bags containing the severed hands and feet of Mekole Michelle Harris were dropped in front of two residences to frighten a woman into paying $10,000 to a Greenville couple, Thirteenth Circuit Deputy Solicitor Betty Strom alleged Friday in court.

The couple could face the death penalty if they are convicted in Harris’ death, Strom said.

During a bond hearing, the prosecution offered new details into what led authorities to arrest Carman Major Jenkins and Clarence Williams Jenkins and charge them with murder in connection with Harris’ death last month.

The 34-year-old mother of four’s body hasn’t been found, but authorities say it’s unlikely she survived. After the hearing, Strom declined to comment on why authorities believe Harris was targeted and said Harris had no connection with the people her appendages were sent to.

During the hearing, Circuit Judge Edward Welmaker denied bond for Carman Jenkins, 20. Her husband, Clarence Jenkins, 24, also is charged with murder and hasn’t had a bond hearing since the pair’s April 10 arrest.

Carman Jenkins’ defense attorney, Tim Sullivan, asked the judge to consider that Jenkins has two young children and no criminal record.

On April 7, two trash bags containing Harris’ hands and feet were found on the doorstep of two separate Cleveland Street-area residences -- one at Andover Park Apartments and another on Rose Avenue, Strom told the judge.

A few days before the body parts were found, Clarence Jenkins was seen with Harris at a Labor Finders office in Greenville, Strom said while arguing that Carman Jenkins would be a flight risk because she didn’t cooperate with police and faces the possibility of the death penalty.

Strom said an email address to respond to the alleged demand was provided along with "threatening letters" left with Harris’ body parts.

In the days following the discovery of the body parts, the email account was checked three times, Strom said.

Greenville police investigators used IP addresses to track where the account was checked -- twice from a Greenville County library computer and once from the Jenkins’ home, Strom said.

The library provided images of the couple checking the email address, Strom said.

Investigators went to the Jenkins’ home and asked Carman Jenkins to come to the Law Enforcement Center to talk about the case, Strom said. Jenkins told investigators that she would meet with them but that she had "child-care issues" to deal with first, Strom said.

Instead of going back to the Law Enforcement Center, investigators staked out the home and watched as Carman Jenkins made several trips to a trash dumpster over the course of an hour and a half, throwing away cleaning supplies and trash bags resembling the ones used to hold Harris’ hands and feet, Strom said.

Carman Jenkins eventually came to the Law Enforcement Center, where she lied to investigators about what she had been doing since they last spoke, Strom said.

Later, investigators went to the couple’s home to serve a separate arrest warrant on Clarence Jenkins and found blood spattered on the walls and bathroom, as well as a collection of swords and knives, handcuffs, a clump of hair and copies of other threatening letters, Strom said.

The letters -- demanding $10,000 -- had been sent to a woman who had lived with the couple for a time, he said. The woman was connected to the residences where the body parts were found, but Harris had no connection to the woman or the people at the residences, Strom said.

Carman and Clarence Jenkins are eligible for the death penalty if convicted because they are accused of killing someone for money or something of value and dismembering a body, Strom said. A few days before the body parts were found,
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http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008305240002
 
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Information about the victim.


http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/15832612/detail.html

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GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Fingerprints from cut-off hands found at two separate locations on Monday helped investigators identify the woman to whom they belong as Mekole Harris.

After hearing the news, Harris' mother, Jessie Harris, broke down in tears as she sat on her couch inside her Fountain Inn home.

"What kind of person would do that to a human being?" Harris said Tuesday afternoon.

Despite not knowing where the rest of the body is, Harris said she believes her daughter is dead. "They have to be very vicious and very mean and angry, but my daughter didn't deserve to die like that," she said.

Investigators said a woman who lives at the Andover Park Apartments in Greenville found a hand and foot in a bag on her front porch early Monday morning. While they were investigating that incident, the other hand and foot were found inside another bag on the porch of an empty house on Rose Avenue.

"If anybody knows anything, just let us know where the body is. All we want is just the rest of her, so I can put her to rest. That's all we want," Harris said in tears.

Harris said she talked to her daughter on Friday. She said her daughter had problems, but she was trying to clean up her life.

"She told me that somebody was out to kill her," Harris said.

Detectives with the Greenville Police Department are looking at surveillance video from the apartment complex, hoping for a clue or connection between Andover Park Apartments, Rose Avenue and Mekole Harris.

"I know God is going to take care of it," Harris said. "He's going to take care of it. Whoever did that, God's going to fix it. We're going to keep on praying, and we're never going to give up until we find the one that did it."

Investigators with the coroner's office said no one could survive having their feet and hands removed unless some kind of surgical procedure was involved.

Detectives with the Police Department said they would continue to look for more body parts, and are not yet calling the case a homicide.
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Huh? Too weird. They actually thought this would work and they would get away with it?
 
LOL - But really!... They must be stupid - even my granddaughter knows about fingerprints.

"Give us your money or we will send more body parts."???
"Hand over the dough or you will end up a foot under the street!"???
"Gas costs an arm and a leg these days, so give us your money... this is your change"???
 
Dakota_Valkyrie said:
LOL - But really!... They must be stupid - even my granddaughter knows about fingerprints.

"Give us your money or we will send more body parts."???
"Hand over the dough or you will end up a foot under the street!"???
"Gas costs an arm and a leg these days, so give us your money... this is your change"???
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I did a search but since the body parts where unclaimed at the time of the first thread there was no name in the title. LOL I should have searched body parts. :bounce:
 
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Carman Jenkins appeared in court to plead guilty to murder. March 27 2012​
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) -
The woman accused of killing and dismembering another woman in 2008 was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Greenville County Circuit Court on Tuesday morning.
Carman Jenkins, 24, pleaded guilty in court to murder.
She was charged with murder along with her husband in the death of Mekole Harris.
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The Jenkins' claimed the roommate owed them $10,000, according to investigators.
"Her body parts were found in various locations in trash bags," said Lisa Perry, Mekole Harris' sister.
In May 2011, Jenkins went before a judge and had her bond set at $100,000. A judge set Jenkins' bond after the solicitor told him the former solicitor made a deal with Jenkins.
The deal was Jenkins would lead them to the rest of Harris' body, and in return, prosecutors would not seek the death penalty against her.
Investigators said Harris was killed along Rose Avenue in Greenville, where her body parts were found in trash bags.
A neighbor's dog, ShaCole, found Harris' body parts on the porch at the abandoned home, according to investigators. Another trash bag with remains was found about a mile away at the Andover Apartment Complex.
Clarence Jenkins is scheduled to go to trial later in 2012.
Carman Jenkins is expected to be a witness for the prosecution in the trial. A judge said her testimony could help get her a reduced sentence.
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http://www.wbtv.com/story/17262620/woman-accused-of-dismembering-other-woman-goes-before-judge
 
Wife Testifies Against Husband In Dismemberment Trial

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Clarence Jenkins Jr. appears in court.​
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) -
The trial for a Greenville man accused of killing and dismembering a woman in 2008 continued Wednesday.

Clarence Jenkins Jr. and his wife, Carman, are accused of killing Mekole Harris in April 2008 and then cutting off her hands and feet, leaving them on two doorsteps in Greenville County.

According to investigators, the Jenkins killed Harris to send a message to their former roommate, Grace Jones, who had a relationship with them.

Carman Jenkins pleaded guilty to killing Harris and was sentenced to 50 years in prison earlier in March. Clarence Jenkins' trial began Monday.

On Wednesday, Carman Jenkins testified against her husband, describing how they killed Harris and what they did with her body.

Carman Jenkins testified before the jury that Clarence Jenkins pretended to be a police officer, convincing Harris that he would keep her out of jail if she helped them. Carman Jenkins said they tied Harris up and made her call Jones' family to try and extort $10,000 from them.

Harris was tied up for about a day before the Jenkins killed her, chopped off her hands and feet, then took her body to Paris Mountain to burn it, Carman Jenkins said.

Carman Jenkins said the couple returned home as if nothing had happened.


During the second day of Clarence Jenkins' trial, Jones took the stand to testify about what happened when she tried to move out.

She said when she was leaving, Clarence Jenkins told her that he would let her go because he, "can't kill you."

Prosecutors have said the Jenkins left parts of Harris' body at Jones' home to try and force her back into a relationship with them.


When the trial began Monday, a former Greenville police officer took the stand to testify about the discovery of Harris' body parts.

Officer Christopher Odom said he had opened the garbage bag that had a foot inside that was later identified as Harris' foot.
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http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/17...n-accused-in-greenville-co-dismemberment-case
 
A relationship with them? As in a non platonic relationship? Quite possibly a sexual one? Eeeeewwww! Gross on toast! I can't believe people would do this to a innocent person just to try and get someone else to come back. That makes no fucking sense at all. I am beyond confused...
 
Family of dismembered woman to lay her to rest
Memorial service set exactly 5 years after discovery of Mekole Harris' body parts
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An upstate family said they're finally getting closure five years after learning their loved one was brutally slain.
An upstate family said they're finally getting closure five years after learning their loved one was brutally murdered.More

A memorial service Mekole Harris is set for Sunday, which marks the fifth anniversary of the day her hands and feet were found in plastic bags.
The discoveries on April 8, 2008, took place outside an apartment building on Cleveland Street and a house on Rose Avenue.

"It just seemed like there was never going to be an ending to it," Patrice Strickland, Harris' sister, told WYFF. "I'm just glad I can say we're able to put it to rest."
Clarence Jenkins and his wife, Carman Jenkins, were later convicted of murder in Harris' death. Investigators said they killed Harris to use her body parts to threaten another woman.
Clarence Jenkins was sentenced to life in prison. His wife received a 50-year sentence.

On Wednesday, Harris' family went to the Greenville County Courthouse for a hearing for Carman Jenkins, during which prosecutors planned to request a reduction in her sentence because of her cooperation in the case. A decision was made to postpone the hearing until June.
Relatives told WYFF that Jenkins helped investigators locate Harris' torso and other fragmented body parts. The remains were recently turned over to Watkins, Garrett and Woods Mortuary, Strickland said.
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Harris' memorial service is scheduled for Sunday at 2 p.m. at Watkins, Garrett and Woods Mortuary in Greenville.
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