00:00Here's how a sweet potato helped solve a 12-year-old cold case in Massachusetts.
00:03Back in 2011, thin 31-year-old Todd Lampley was murdered after he was shot through the bedroom
00:08window of a duplex in Cape Cod. At the scene, police found a sweet potato with a hole in it,
00:13which they believed the killer used as a makeshift silencer. And for some of you,
00:17that idea might sound familiar. In an episode of The Wire, an American crime drama series that
00:22aired on HBO, a sweet potato was also used as a silencer during the commission of a crime.
00:26And the similarities between this murder and the one in The Wire don't end there.
00:30Police on the scene also found a cell phone registered under the name of Marlo Stamfield,
00:35who was a fictional drug lord in the show. In the end, police used DNA on the sweet potato
00:40to tie 40-year-old DeVaris Hampton to the killing. A GPS monitoring device Hampton was wearing also
00:46placed him on the scene at the time of the murder, and the alleged murder weapon was
00:49recovered from a nearby lake. Officials arrested Hampton 12 years to the day of the murder,
00:54and when asked, declined to comment on why it took that long.
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