Terrance “Konomi” Plummer (Ace of Spades, North Carolina)
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Our card this week is Terrence Konomi Plummer, the Ace of Spades from North Carolina. We talk a lot about what it takes to solve a murder. The lucky breaks, the dead ends, new evidence. But sometimes solving a case isn't about finding something new. It's about finally understanding something that was there all along. as was the case here. It was Memorial Day weekend in 2010 and hot as Hades in North Carolina when 22-year-old Terrence Konomi Plummer was found murdered in a crime so brutal and so deliberate that it stayed with everyone who touched the case, especially Lieutenant Jeff Locklear. What began as another homicide investigation became the one case he could never shake, his white whale. More than a decade later, the answer would come from something investigators had possessed all along.
And information they never knew existed. Finally solving Plummer's murder and giving Locklear something that he had spent years chasing. Closure. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.
On May 31st, 2010, Lieutenant Jeff Locklear was just a young homicide detective with the Fayetteville Police Department on his way to a training program. And that's when his phone rang in the early morning hours. On the other end was his sergeant with some instructions. turn around and head south in the opposite direction toward Rue Street in the Bonny Do neighborhood of Fayetteville. There had been a murder, and they needed Locklear on the job. He'd been told that someone had found a body in an abandoned duplex, and it was who local officers knew as Terrence or Konomi Plummer. They were a sex worker in the neighborhood. And while their identity was known by officers, how they identified themselves as a person was not as clear.
So I'll use Plummer in this episode. Locklear didn't get many details in his first call-out. But honestly, even if he had, it wouldn't have prepared him for what he was walking into. Locklear explained it to our reporter as if it had just happened yesterday.
This was in May and it was about 95 degrees that day. And there's no power at this place, so it was really hot, really humid. And the place was covered in trash, and it's got a lot of old beer bottles and that kind of stuff, and the place was just filthy. You go into that room, and one of the things that you learn real early as a homicide cop is death has a smell, and that was readily evident in only 24 hours because of the heat. That smell had permeated the whole room. The other things you smell is blood. And there's a lot of it in this case. And the best way I can describe that to you is to put a penny in your mouth. That sensation you get from that copper taste is kind of when you go into a really bloody crime scene.
That's kind of what you're dealing with.
As Lieutenant Locklear stepped into the stifling room, his eyes fell to the victim's body, laying face down, wig displaced and bra still on, but naked from the waist down and positioned a few feet from a mattress that was on the bedroom floor.
As we walked over a little closer to the victim's body, the amount of injury, even before we moved the victim, was evident. There's cutting slash marks throughout legs, hands, arms, face. And again, I don't want the crime scene folks yelling at me. I don't want to move anything around, but I'm trying to really take a look at what I have.
Part of what he had right from the top was what he suspected could have been the murder weapon, a bloody knife laying next to the body.
trying to paint you a picture. And this is common, what we see and what we describe as a trap house or a flop house. There's a mattress on the floor. It's not in a bed frame. It's just a mattress on the floor. The comforter was covered in blood, a lot of clothing and stuff laying around, a lot of cigarette butts.
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