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   Paighton Houston, the Trussville woman who disappeared from a   
   Birmingham bar and was later found buried in the backyard of a   
   Hueytown home, died of drug overdose, authorities announced   
   Thursday morning.   
      
   The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Thursday listed the   
   cause of death as morphine and methamphetamine toxicity. The   
   manner of death is accidental. "This represents an overdose and   
   is classified as a drug-opioid death,'' Chief Deputy Coroner   
   Bill Yates wrote in his early-morning news release.   
      
   The announcement comes less than 12 hours after Fredrick Hampton   
   was captured in Ohio by U.S. Marshals. The 50-year-old man is   
   charged with abuse of corpse in her death, meaning he buried her   
   following her accidental overdose.   
      
   Similar abuse of corpse cases have happened around the state.   
      
   In 2014, a Pinson woman’s body was found burning behind an   
   abandoned Fairfield home. Kenneth Lamar Childers and Nathaniel   
   Fortune were charged with abuse of corpse following the death of   
   22-year-old Megan Elizabeth Monroe.   
      
   Monroe’s remains were discovered April 19, 2014 behind an empty   
   house in the 500 block of 40th Street. Authorities determined   
   Monroe was already dead from an alleged drug overdose when the   
   two men put Monroe’s body behind the house and set it on fire,   
   according to the indictments against Childers and Fortune.   
   Childers went to police nine days later and confessed what he   
   had done and identified Fortune as the second suspect. Police   
   also obtained video of the two men buying gas.   
      
   Both men eventually pleaded guilty to the felony charge.   
   Childers was sentenced to six years in prison; Fortune to 10   
   years in prison. Fortune had previous convictions for attempted   
   murder, possession of cocaine and carrying a pistol without a   
   license.   
      
   In November 2017, the body of 27-year-old Melissa Ann Cleckler   
   was found on Egg and Butter Road near Oak Drive in Columbiana.   
   Her body had been at the location for a couple of days before   
   the discovery. The cause and manner of her death was never   
   determined.   
      
   Allen Dion Jones, 44, of Jemison, and Anthony Scott Germany, 42,   
   were charged with abuse of corpse. Both men pleaded guilty to   
   the charge in 2018 and received nine-year suspended sentences.   
      
   Houston vanished Dec. 20. She was last seen at Tin Roof in the   
   2700 block of Seventh Avenue South in Birmingham’s Lakeview   
   District. According to Birmingham police, she left the bar about   
   10:45 p.m. with two heavy-set black males. Sgt. Johnny Williams   
   said it was reported that Houston left the location willingly   
   with the two men.   
      
   She had reportedly gone to the Birmingham bar with co-workers.   
   Friends on Facebook said Houston didn’t know the men and that   
   the last text message from her to a coworker – about two hours   
   after she left Tin Roof - stated she didn’t know where she was,   
   and she felt she might be in trouble. She had sent multiple   
   messages to her co-worker, the last one reading, “Idk who im   
   with so if I call please answer. I feel in trouble.” That text   
   was sent at 12:15 a.m. Dec. 21 but not seen by her coworker   
   until nearly two hours later.   
      
   “We have evidence the victim and the offender were together the   
   night of Dec. 20, 2019,'' said Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief   
   David Agee in an earlier press conference. “We have evidence the   
   victim died the next day at a house on McClain Street in   
   Brighton. We have evidence that after the victim died, her body   
   was disposed of in a criminal manner by Fredrick Hampton.”   
      
   The body of the 29-year-old Houston was found Friday, Jan. 3,   
   wrapped in sheets and buried in a shallow grave behind the house   
   at 215 Chapel Drive. That house belongs to relatives of Hampton.   
      
   Hampton was initially held in the Birmingham City Jail on a 48-   
   hour extension on suspicion of kidnapping beginning Saturday,   
   Dec. 28, but was released two days later because investigators   
   did not have enough to charge him with any crime.   
      
   Agee said investigators have determined Houston was with Hampton   
   on Dec. 20, 2019 and Dec. 21, 2019. She died on Dec. 21 at a   
   house on McClain Street in Brighton, he said. Asked if Houston   
   was with Hampton willingly and voluntarily, Agee said, “We are   
   saying they were together. There is no evidence there was any   
   force.”   
      
   Full coverage of Paighton Houston disappearance   
      
   Hampton was previously convicted in 1992 on first-degree rape   
   and first-degree sodomy charges out of Jefferson County. He   
   served 20 years, five months and 26 days in prison before his   
   release on March 22, 2012. He was also charged with kidnapping,   
      
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