[suspenseful music playing]
[siren wailing]
[Amber Drummond] April 7th started off as any normal day on day shift
And I heard the call go out.
When I met Office Odom, he had a bag in his hand.
Office Odom said, "Amber, you need to see this."
And when he opened it up for me to see,
I said, "Scott, are these...
toes?"
[Lt. Joe Kenda] The bag contains a severed hand,
and a severed foot.
Up until that moment,
I had never seen anything like this before, only in movies.
[dramatic music playing]
I was just astounded by the gruesome nature of this
[Kenda] Murder is a horrible crime.
But, there are some murders that display a level of evil,
and a level of depravity, that are rarely seen.
And this crime is one of those.
[theme music playing]
I spent my career closing murder cases.
But, I'm not the only one who answered the call.
It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable.
To catch a ruthless killer.
To find justice for the dead
That's what it takes...
to be an American Detectiv.
My name is, Collis Flavell and I work with the Greenvil City Police Department.
I was in investigations for 19 years.
And 16 of that was in homicide.
[phone ringing]
This is Flavell.
[Flavell] It was early morni and I had just got to work,
when we got the call
An individual by the name of, Sue Bostick,
noticed a black trash bag sitting outside her front door.
And, she found a note under her windshield on her car.
-[Kenda] The notes says... -[begins reading]
"This is what happens if you don't follow instructions."
Okay, got it. I'm on my way.
[Kenda] Flavell has two thin to answer at once.
Who is this person that lost these body parts?
And, more importantly, who is Grace?
[siren wailing]
[Drummond] If there was a case to solve
if Collis Flavell was on it, it was gonna get solved.
[Flavell] When I arrived, two patrol officers,
um, Office Odom and Officer Drummond,
were at a patrol car where they had this black bag on the back of the car.
Hey, Drummond.
What are we looking at here?
You won't believe this.
[stammers] In my career I've never had a case,
like this
before or after.
Let's get forensics out here. Now.
[Michael Peterson] When dispatch calls you and says,
"We've got body parts in a trash bag."
No doubt, that was gonna be one of those things
that I personally wanted to respond to.
[Peterson] They said, you got body parts?
-The toes have been clipped clean off. -What?
What are we getting ourselves into here?
[camera shutter clicks]
[Flavell] The hands and feet were brown skin
almost looked like it was surgically removed.
It was very clean cuts, there wasn't a lot of blood in the bag.
Obviously it happened somewhere else.
[Drummond] Gosh, I remember my prayer was,
I hoped the victim
had died at this point.
I hoped that they didn't feel pain.
[Kenda] Whoever lost their hand and their foot, could not have survived that
You'd bleed out in less than two minutes.
This is a homicide.
The question becomes, of whom?
And, where is the rest of them?
Let's have a look at that note. [sighs]
[Flavell] The note itself was bizarre.
It was addressed to an individual by the name of Grace Davis.
Basically, threatening Grace
We learned that Miss Bostic is Grace Davis' aunt.
[Kenda] The implied content of the note is,
do what we demand or this will happen to you.
In addition to that information,
there is an email to respond to at the bottom of the page.
[Flavell] evens.john60@yahoo.com was left on the note.
For us as investigators, you know, thank you.
Because, we can track that email address and at least start somewhere.
Let's see if you can pull any prints off of this.
And, let's get a read on that email.
I'll let you know what we can find.
We had no clue what or who we were dealing with.
-Copy that. Detective? -[Flavell] Yeah.
We've got a problem
[Kenda] He's informed, by radio, that a second bag has been found.
At another house, a mile away, that also contains additional body parts.
Holy smokes.
[Flavell] I'd never dreamed that we would get a call about other body parts.
So, now we went from one scene to two scenes.
[Drummond] My fear was, that more bags would show up
And that, as they did,
the case would just become more inhumane over time.
[Peterson] We needed to get those body parts to the morgue.
'Cause that was gonna be ke
in trying to establish the identity of that person.
The woman who lives in the second home is, Judon Burnside.
[Flavell] We learned that Judon Burnside is Grace Davis' mother.
[Kenda] So, we have Judon Burnside. We have Sue Bostick.
Now, Flavell has to set about finding answers.
So, Sue and Judon are interviewed together.
Grace Davis is one woman's daughter and the other woman's niece
[Flavell] She live with either one of you?
[Judon Burnside] She use to, but, things have changed.
And now, we just take care of the kids.
[Kenda] She's gotten into drugs and her children where taken away from her.
And she has drifted off, into the street.
And they don't know where she is.
Whoever is responsible for this,
doesn't know where Grace is either.
Or, he wouldn't be leaving these threats with relatives.
He'd be going directly to Grace Davis.
Has anything happened, in the last few days, out of the ordinary?
Well, there was this phone call.
Miss Bostick told us she answered the phone
and stated, it sounds like somebody's gonna die.
-Hello? -[woman screaming] Help me! Help me, please!
[line disconnects]
Hello?
[dial tone]
[Kenda] She got a phone cal from a female voice,
who is screaming into the phone,
and then the line went dead.
She wonders if that's connected.
Flavell wonders the same thing.
[Flavell] Do either one of you know anybody who would wanna do Grace harm?
There is her ex.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kenda] Grace's ex husband has been ordered to pay $400 a month in child suppor
And, he was very unhappy about this.
Money, sex, or revenge are common things in a murder case.
And here was have money and revenge.
Together.
[Flavell] So, of course, that turns our attention.
We needed to talk to Grace's ex-husband.
[soft piano music playing]
[knocking on door]
[Kenda] The ex-husband appears shocked.
Has no knowledge of any of this.
Mr. Davis I need to know where you were on the morning of the 7th.
I was with my girlfriend.
They pretty much had an alibi for the timeframe that we were looking at.
He was in a new relationship
And his new girlfriend, actually had taken him to work.
We verified his work records.
So, we were able to clear him as a suspect.
[Kenda] It's just not the gu
It just isn't.
It's a shame. It would make this case a lot simpler. But, it's not simple.
Murder's never are.
[cell phone ringing]
This is Flavell.
Okay. Got it, I'll be right there.
It is very unusual to ask a corner to examine body parts and not a body.
It's happened in my career.
But, it's very rare.
[Flavell] Our medical examin called us to review all the tissue samples.
The body parts, they were not, per se, surgically removed.
But, they weren't hacked and wacked.
[Kenda] Whatever was used was very sharp.
It made a clean cut right at the joint.
[Examiner] But, we did get a hit on the prints.
[Kenda] They do determine the identity, of the parts, by fingerprint.
It's a female. And her name was, Mekole Harris.
She's 34 years old.
[Flavell] I've never heard of Mekole Harris.
So, now we gotta figure out, why you?
Why are your hands and feet in this bag?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Kenda] Now the questions become, where was she last seen alive?
What is her connection, if any, to Grace Davis?
We have someone who is such an enemy of Miss Davis,
he's willing to kill just to make a point.
That's a serious enemy.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kenda] So, we know that now this person's name is Mekole Harris.
Now, Flavell has to set about finding where Mekole Harris was last seen alive.
And, he has to make a death notification to the family.
For you, to give them that news is, it's devastating.
In a split second
their life is turned upside down.
[knocking on door]
[Kenda] He finds her mother and has to explain
that he doesn't have her daughter's body.
He only has parts of it.
[melancholy music playing]
[Flavell] So, we learn that Mekole Harris was a 34-year-old mother.
Grew up in a normal family.
Couple towns away from Greenville.
Mekole was my baby sister.
I, kinda like, raised her as my own.
That was my heart.
It was seven of us and Meko was the baby.
We nicknamed her Meky.
Her personality was sweet and loving.
She was lovely as a mother. She had the heart of gold.
[Flavell] Where had she been living?
That's the thing,
she was not making the best decision.
[Myra Ruiz] Mekole Harris was somebody who had fallen on hard times.
Because she had a drug habit.
[piano music playing]
She would often find hersel living on the streets,
or with random people.
[Flavell] Due to Mekole's substance abuse problem
she didn't have custody of her kids.
[Domico Harris] We use to, you know, see each other on a regular basis.
Even though we were mostly with our grandmother.
[orchestral music playing]
[Kenda] Mrs. Harris says, her daughter has fallen on hard times.
But, still, Mekole Harris was trying to change her way
Trying to move back into a normal life.
To get off the streets and away from the drugs.
And back to where she began, as a mother.
[Patrice Strickland] She was working towards
getting her life together and coming home.
I said, "Are you sure?"
And she said, "Yes, ma'am. I am."
And I said, "I know the kids'll be happy."
[Ruiz] Knowing that she was never able to rekindle
that stable relationship with her children,
I'm sure has continued to haunt the whole family.
[Strickland] That's why it hurts me so bad.
Because, she was talking about coming home.
And being, you know, the person that I wanted her to be.
[Kenda] And someone has decided to take her life
It's incredible foul.
Was Mekole employed anywhere?
[Flavell] Mekole has hung ou at Labor Finders.
Which is a day labor where jobs go out, they go out for the day.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Kenda] So, Flavell goes to the Labor Finders to see who knows Mekole Harris.
Some recognize the name, some seem to recall her.
But, no one seems to know her very well.
So, Flavell doesn't really learn very much.
[Flavell] Sometimes you pic the wrong rabbit hole.
You know, so you go back and start on another one.
-[cell phone ringing] -Then we started looking for Grace.
This is Flavell.
The Davis family reports that, they now know where Grace probably is staying.
[dramatic music playing]
We learned that, she was living with a cousin out in the county.
[Kenda] Flavell is thrilled
But, at least he's gonna be able to finally speak to Grace Davis.
To find out, perhaps, what is going on in this mess.
Ma'am, I need to talk to you about a couple of incidents
that happened at your mom and aunt's home.
What?
She has no clue that there was body parts left at these locations,
at her family's houses.
[Flavell] Can we go inside and talk for a few minutes?
Flavell wants to know, how Grace Davis
becomes, somehow, the focus of this murder case.
Body parts?
-And the letters were address to me? -That's correct.
[Kenda] There was a direct threat made against her.
That's gonna scare anyone half to death.
Are you familiar with anybody named, Mekole Harris?
[Ruiz] That was a big myster
Grace is related to the people who found the body parts.
But, she had zero connection to Mekole Harris.
At this moment, Detective Flavell has way more questions than he has answers.
[Flavell] She really didn't know anything about what the letter stated.
Our priority at the time was, who's threatening Grace and her family?
And then, who has murdered someone to carry out their threat?
[Kenda] She denies any knowledge of enemies.
Denies any knowledge of Mekole Harris.
She does seem to be genuinely shocked that this has happened.
[Flavell] We gotta look at this a different way
Man, this is... We're thinking way too big.
So, we gotta back up. And we did.
We let our work lead us in the right direction.
I need to know where the other part of her is. And what when on? And why?
So I can come to a closure. And put her to rest.
[crying] Why did they take my daughter life like that?
If you know where the other part of her body is,
would you please just show the police.
[Flavell] The media helped u in a way, it got the news out there.
[Kenda] The entire city of Greenville is placed on edge.
Because, we have a dismembered body.
A killer on the loose.
It is the topic of conversation in Greenville, South Carolina.
[Flavell] It wasn't long after,
our uniformed dispatch received a call from the Nicholtown area.
-You have a call on line one. -Thank you.
Flavell.
A resident there had called in a foul odor in the neighborhood.
Said, "Hey, y'all might wanna come out here."
[siren wailing]
When they get out of the car, they're overcome by the smell of death.
[dramatic music playing]
When you're a policeman you never, ever forget the smell of death.
Behind the house we find a big, like, storage container.
That's where the smell is coming from.
The odor was unbearable.
Disgusting to say the least.
[Kenda] They remove the lid.
and up to the top of the lid it is a blood and flesh soup.
Maybe they have just found
Mekole Harris.
[dramatic music playing]
[Flavell] It was disgusting
We're trying to come up with a game plan on
how are we going to attack this container?
Because it's, probably, 80% liquid at this time.
Let's get this area roped off.
And get a report on the house.
[woman] Can I help you with something?
[Kenda] As they are examinin this pile of goop in this dr
the homeowner arrives, a woman.
And says, "What are ya doing?"
Is that your container?
Well, it's behind my house, ain't it?
[Kenda] He looks at her and says in his own head,
"Did you kill Mekole Harris?
"Or, did someone in your house do it?"
All right, ma'am. I need you to step back.
This is an active crime scene.
So, y'all are investigating the death of a pig?
[Flavell] Wait, wait?
She said, "We had a pig picking and we cleaned the pig
and I just put it in that container."
[chuckling]
[Kenda] She has an explanati for this barrel and contents that might be true.
It also might not be.
We immediately stopped what we were doing.
We called for our forensic division.
They can conduct an immediate test on the blood
and tell you human or animal, on the spot.
Yeah, this is definitely a pig.
All right, let's pack it up.
[Kenda] Dead ends are commo in homicide investigations.
Something looks so promising and it falls apart.
It goes through your fingers like sand.
[somber music playing]
[Flavell] It's really disappointing.
But, you never quit.
You still got a family that needs answers.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kenda] We need a new step.
There was that email that was left on the threatening note.
Flavell submitted it when he found it.
And now, computer forensics has a result.
[man] No, I don't know. Oh, call you back.
I hear you got something for me.
[Kenda] They inform him a public use computer
in a library was used to send the email.
[suspenseful music playing]
Which means, there is a God
Because, public libraries have surveillance cameras.
[Librarian] Okay. Here is the tape you were asking about.
Not only did it give us the address, but, it gave us the date and time
that this email address was checked.
[Kenda] He goes, and he sees footage.
And he sees an African America couple, man and woman,
using the computer.
The man is not anyone that Flavell as ever seen.
And the woman that's with hi is not Grace Davis.
[Flavell] What struck me is he was wearing gloves.
He's inside the library but, he's got on these...
big thick gloves.
[Kenda] He doesn't wanna leave fingerprints on the keys.
As if that matters.
He's using a computer that has its own fingerprint.
So, he's typing this email, on April the 6th.
The day before the body parts are found.
Now, we're getting somewhere.
So, who are these people?
[Flavell] Getting actual vid of the suspects, in the library,
at that date and time gave us a lot of momentum in our case.
So, now it's time to bring Grace Davis back in for another interview.
And confront her with this video.
[dramatic music playing]
Grace.
I need you to start being honest with me.
Flavell explains that, this is not gonna go away.
I'm not gonna go away.
And, we're gonna get to the bottom of this.
[Flavell] And I said, "Hey, do you recognized these people?"
"Tell me what's going on."
Okay.
Look, I know him and his wife.
But, I don't talk to them anymore.
Who is he?
[Kenda] And she cracks.
She says, "The people on this tape are Carman and Clarence Jenkins."
We use to live together and we...
[sighs] We use to date.
All three of you?
"I got together with them and we all fell in love.
I had a sexual relationship with Clarence Jenkins.
I also had a sexual relationship with Carman Jenkins."
Okay?
You start talking about a triangle situation
where everybody's in love with everybody else,
things can get enormously complicated.
It was good for a while.
Until Clarence started being all controlling.
She said, "He's real controlling" and "I can't leave the house."
[Flavell] She says, "Then I found out that Clarence was abusive."
So, Clarence's verbal abuse and weirdness
caused Miss Davis to come to her senses, to some degree,
and to to leave these people.
I just knew I had to get outta there.
So, she makes the decision to leave.
And she leaves,
literally, walks away.
[Kenda] She left on the 16th of March.
April the 6th is a few weeks later.
Body parts and threats show up.
That's remarkable.
[siren wailing]
[Flavell] So now, who's Carman and Clarence?
How are you involved in this
So, we made an attempt to talk to Carman and Clarence Jenkins.
To find out what was actually going on.
[dramatic music playing]
[Flavell] Carman Jenkins?
Yes.
[Flavell] Ma'am, we need to speak with you
about a case we're investigating.
Is your husband home right now?
[Carman] Um, this really isn't a good time.
[Kenda] She immediately say that, they're busy right now
But, they will come down to the police station
later in the day to discuss it with them.
Her and Clarence.
[Flavell] So, we left.
But, we had a team of investigators out there
and we did surveillance.
[Kenda] Minutes after Flavell leaves
their surveillance team reports that, Carman and Clarence
are carrying black trash bags from their trailer to a dumpster.
[Flavell] Detective Garriso was watching through binoculars
And the trash bags got blue pull strings.
[suspenseful music playing]
The very same type that were found with the mutilated body parts.
Flavell and his partner return to the dumpster, near the property,
and look in the bags that they threw away.
[Flavell] There two or thre empty bleach bottles.
Ammonia bottles.
Carpet cleaning solutions.
Of course, indicative of somebody cleaning something up.
[camera shutter clicks]
[Kenda] Whatever happened to Mekole Harris,
probably happened to her in that trailer.
Now the question becomes,
how do I get in that trailer to confirm my suspicions?
[dramatic music playing]
[Kenda] Detective Flavell's experien tells him that,
that crime is that trailer.
He needs a warrant.
He can't get it based on cleaning supplies.
[phone ringing]
Throwing those away isn't against the law. He needs another way.
Flavell.
Flavell finds that they had just entered
a traffic warrant for Clarence's arrest on his record.
[Flavell] That really was a lucky break for us.
And it was fresh off the press.
There is Flavell's way in.
[siren wailing]
[Kenda] They return, with their search warrant in hand.
-[Flavell] Police! Open up! -[Kenda] They knock on the door...
and Carman answers it.
Ma'am, I have a warrant for Clarence Jenkins.
Well, he ain't here right now.
[Kenda] And Flavell looks at her and says,
"We gonna search the premise,
and if I find him in here, I'm gonna charge you with harboring a fugitive."
And she steps aside.
They go in.
[Flavell] The house is disgusting.
-[camera shutter clicks] -It is nasty.
There's pots on the counter with fugus growing in 'em.
-[camera shutter clicks] -Obviously there was no bleach used,
and there was no carpet cleaner used
to clean anything in the house.
[insects buzzing]
In the bathroom, in the shower,
it's, like, spray-painted re
[camera shutter clicks]
As I'm clearing the bathroom
you can see, what I suspect to be, blood spatter
-[camera shutter clicks] -on the wall.
[camera shutter clicks]
Akin goes to the left, he says, "Man, there's a hole."
[yelling] Detective, I've got something back here.
[Kenda] He notices a piece of drywall
that's out of alignment with part of the wall.
He shines a light in that crack,
and who does he see?
[Flavell] Come out on your hands and knees.
Keep you hands where I can see 'em.
And there's Clarence Jenkins hiding behind this piece of paneling.
Come out of there Clarence, you're under arrest.
All right, I'll take him in.
She's gonna be charged with harboring a fugitive.
Copy that.
[Flavell] Let's go.
[Kenda] Now, that Detective Flavell
has seen apparent evidence of a murder.
He's granted a second warran
To search for evidence of death in this trailer.
[Flavell] Once we did that search warrant,
forensics came out, we told them what we observe
Then they go in, start processing.
[insects buzzing]
We were looking specifically for,
uh, items that would connect the victim to the trailer.
And any potential evidence of foul play.
Get that light for me, will ya.
[suspenseful music playing]
That's positive for blood.
When you look into the bathroom you could see the wallpaper was gone.
Inside of the shower stall was painted, the floor was painted.
[camera shutter clicks]
[Kenda] They're trying to cover up blood.
-They missed a number of places. -[camera shutter clicks]
Which you could see blood spatter on the walls.
Blood spatter on the sink area.
Staining everywhere.
[dramatic music playing]
[Flavell] I go to the back bedroom.
Found these and that.
[camera shutter clicks]
[Peterson] There were knives, swords..
[camera shutter clicks]
handcuffs in the back bedroom.
We knew we had something with the knives.
Found something here.
[Dar Shaw] I had found a clip board,
and in that clip board were typed letters...
[camera shutter clicks]
addressed to the same individuals where the body parts were sent.
[Kenda] This is a filthy trailer,
filled with all sorts of horrible evidence.
So, this is all adding up to the scene of the death of Mekole Harris.
But, why did Mekole Harris die?
Why was she murdered and dismembered for heaven sake?
And, how does it connect to Miss Davis?
And the Jenkins?
That's what they don't know.
So, Clarence was eventually transported down to the Law Enforcement Center.
Where I went and interviewed him.
Look, Clarence, we know you're involved.
We found the letters. We found blood.
-We even found the trash bags. -[Clarence] It wasn't me!
[Flavell] We had evidence that she died there.
But, it just really didn't answer all the questions that needed to be answered.
It is a bizarre circumstance.
In every possible way.
A three person love triangle
A dismemberment homicide.
A filthy trailer, filled wit overwhelming evidence.
You take the time to spray-paint a bathroom.
You don't throw away the drafts of the threatening note.
Absolutely ridiculous. It's like children trying to do this.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
But, killers tend not to be.
I want a lawyer.
[Flavell] We still didn't have Mekole.
We had Mekole's hands and feet.
But, we still hadn't found the body.
So, you know, we really didn't have any information to give the family.
[somber music playing]
I have faith in God, and I know that it was gonna get solved.
But, I mean, it was just devastating.
[Harris] We had a candle light vigil.
But, the thing was we still was, you know...
Still going through it.
The time for me...
it was real hard.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kenda] So, Flavell is organizing the case, as best he can,
so, they can proceed to tria
During this process a year goes by.
And Carman decides she wants to talk.
She says, "I wanna tell you what happened."
The prosecutor called and wanted us to come up
for a meeting with Carman and her attorneys.
Flavell is elated.
[Flavell] We're at the solicitors offi with her attorneys,
the prosecutors, and finally she's giving us her confession.
And the conversation begins.
[suspenseful music playing]
So, the question Flavell has is simple,
what happened inside that trailer, Carman?
What happened to Mekole Harris?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Kenda] Carman sits down with Detective Flavell.
Flavell says, "I want you to tell me the entire story. How did all this unfold?"
[Flavell] That interview was probably, one of the coldes interviews I've ever done.
She was...
just as cold as she could be.
[Kenda] She says, that Clarence Jenkins
had met Grace Davis, on the street, and brought h home with him.
[Flavell] When Grace left her ex-husband,
she ended up in a women's shelter for a little while.
So, Clarence offered for Grace to move in with him and his wife.
[Kenda] Davis moved into their trailer,
and became sexually involve with both of them.
They were all happily together.
So happily, they had considered trying to get married as a threesome.
To, somehow, make this official.
So, what went wrong?
Things got heated between Clarence and Grace.
I guess the dynamic of it was such as that, he was definitely the one in control.
And, his personality wasn't anything she
planned to deal with on a long-term basis.
[dramatic music playing]
Clarence was verbally abusive, and it upset Grace Davis,
and she decided to leave the
So, when Grace left, to make a better life for herself.
They're like, "No, it's the three of us or none of us."
[Kenda] Clarence was wild.
No one leaves him.
He's gonna get her back at any cost.
Clarence goes to Labor Finders.
He notices Mekole Harris.
[suspenseful music playing]
Excuse me, Miss.
Yes, do I know you?
I need you to come with me.
He convinces her he's a policeman.
He puts her in his car and he drives her to their trailer.
-I thought we were going to the station? -Give me your hands.
Come on.
[Flavell] Carman says, he shows up with Mekole.
And, she's in handcuffs.
And, he takes her straight to this back room.
-[Clarence] Would you sit down! -Please, just let me go!
[Clarence] Stop that!
[Kenda] The first plan Clarence had was, to use Mekole Harris to make threat
He handcuffs her to a chair.
He makes her make that phone call to Sue Bostick.
[number pad beeping]
-[Mekole panting] -[line ringing]
You tell Grace she needs to get her ass back here.
-[Sue] Hello? -Help me! Help me, please!
Help, please. Please, don't kill me!
[Kenda] However, she didn't follow the scrip and didn't say much.
Which is why Bostick only heard screaming and then the line went dead.
And, then what happened?
The threats weren't working.
So, Clarence came up with another idea.
And then, Clarence just comes up to Carman
and says, "Hey, you gotta kill that girl."
-[Mekole] No, please. -[Clarence] Here.
-Here. -[Mekole crying]
-Get on with it. -[Mekole crying] Please, you don't have to do this.
-Please, help me! -Go on now, get on with it.
[Mekole crying]
[Clarence] Come on.
[Kenda] It's a monstrous idea.
Clarence Jenkins is willing to use the death of a perfect stranger as a device
to regain the love and admiration of another female.
How sick is that?
How sick can you be?
And Carman is a participant in this crime.
[Flavell] Clarence tells he to use a piece
of coaxial cable and strangle her.
Carman goes in there,
puts the coaxial around Mekole's neck,
and tries to strangle her.
But, I wasn't strong enough.
So, Clarence did it.
-I can't do it. -Please, don't kill me!
[Mekole crying]
[Clarence] Get out the way!
[Kenda] So, Clarence takes over.
And, kills her by strangling her to death.
[Mekole choking]
[Flavell] They then take he and drag her into the front bathroom.
Then he takes a machete
and cuts off her feet and her hands.
With powerful blows, with a very long, sharp blade.
They get, like, some garden shears and he cuts the toes off.
Then, he bags these parts in two different bags,
he writes the threatening letters.
That Clarence Jenkins would devise such a plan, is beyond monstrous.
If I was so empowered.
I would sit Clarence down and I would say,
"Clarence, I'm gonna stuff you into a food processor and press liquify,
and then I'm gonna pour you down a toilet.
Because, that is where you belong."
[Flavell] I need to know where the rest of Mekole's body is.
Carman gave us the location that they actually dumped Mekole Harris' body.
It was out in a vacant field
And they actually poured gas on it and tried to burn it.
[Kenda] Good heavens.
For what?
The love and admiration of a female?
Apparently so.
[Flavell] She had no emotion
I mean, the whole time is was, like, really eerie.
We called upstate Search and Rescue and they brought their dogs out.
[dogs barking]
We were unfortunate that most of that area had been cut,
sometime in that year and half.
But, all in all, we did collect a number of bones.
[camera shutter clicks]
And there was, eight or ten different items of evidence that we collected.
One of those items of evidence being, a pair of garden loppers.
[dramatic music playing]
[Flavell] Clarence was tried for murde
He was convicted and he was given life without parole.
Carman was originally sentenced to 50 years.
And, after her testimony,
that sentence was reduced to 40.
You just killed someone just to play some silly game
So, what's enough?
[Ruiz] You always think of dangerous people as havin like, lots of weapons.
But, really the most dangerous people that exist are those without empathy.
And, clearly, Carman and Clarence had no empathy for Mekole Harris.
[Harris] I just want the world to know,
that the tragedy that happened,
it's something you never wanna go through.
My mother would want this story to be told.
I got her ashes and everything, and I keep them close to me.
But, [sighs] I'm still dealing with it.
She was a wonderful person. She didn't deserve to go like this.
[Kenda] Detective Flavell represents, yet another, American Detective.
Who's experience, who's perseverance, unraveled this case.
And punished the people involved.
He should be admired for that.
Along with every other American Detective who does the same thing
every day and every night.