MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mississippi woman has been arrested months after a man was found dead inside a burned-up car in the Memphis Police Department’s impound lot.
Tameria Clark, 20, was booked in the Shelby County Jail Tuesday for arson, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with or fabricating evidence. Her bond is set at $500,000.
On July 20, first responders made the scene of a vehicle fire at Weaver Road and Tully Road in Southwest Memphis. When the fire was out, MPD investigators took photos and completed a police report, and then the car was taken to the city impound lot at 465 Kline Lane.
That same morning, the family of 20-year-old Jaderius Webb filed a missing person report with the Horn Lake Police Department. Two days later, Webb’s body was discovered inside the backseat of the vehicle.
Police developed Clark as a suspect and searched her home on Ramblewood Drive in Horn Lake, Mississippi, and said they had found a maroon GMC Terrain connected to the case.
Investigators said a video posted on social media showed Clark at a party on July 20. Detectives said two people at the party told them Clark was upset and told them she had done something that would “send her to jail.”
According to the affidavit of complaint, the witnesses said Clark told them that someone had killed a man in her house, left her to clean up the body, and she burned the body.
A man who said he was Webb’s father told WREG his son “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
He said before they found his son’s body, he had been conducting his own investigation to find out what happened to him. He said he went to the scene where the car was on fire and found his work boots and a gas can left behind.
Police have not released Webb’s cause of death or said who else they might be looking for in connection to his death.
Clark is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.