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March 12, 2014
Police say it appears that after Demarco Carnegie strangled Marie Nettles to death and then dragged her lifeless body near the bank of Plaster Creek, he then spit on her before fleeing the scene.
Carnegie, 28, was ordered to stand trial after a Grand Rapids District Court judge determined Monday, March 10, there was enough evidence to send the case to circuit court on charges of murder and armed robbery.
Grand Rapids Police say in the early morning hours of Aug. 8, Carnegie had sex with 47-year-old Nettles and then strangled her.
Carnegie allegedly took the body near the walkway along Plaster Creek, which runs near 32nd Street SE and Kalamazoo Avenue, and dragged it at least 50 to 75 feet to where it would later be discovered by a man and his mother as they walked along the trail, according to Grand Rapids Major Case Team Detective John Purlee, who testified Monday, March 10 during a probable cause hearing.
Purlee said the nude body had scrape marks on the back-side and a bruise on the chest that matched a pair of shoes that Carnegie had on him when he was arrested in Kern County, Calif., for an Aug. 14 robbery at a Days Inn motel.
DNA testing showed that Carnegie and Nettles had sexual contact and that an undisturbed spot of saliva found on Nettles’ thigh also belonged to Carnigie, according to David Hayhurst, a forensic scientist with the Michigan State Police crime lab in Grand Rapids.
Police also obtained a letter allegedly sent by Carnegie to a friend, which stated that he had sex with a woman he thought was “clean” but who later told him she had AIDS.
“I snapped,” the letter read. “I felt so unclean, I tried ending my life.”
Carnegie allegedly wrote that he tried to drink and smoke pot to kill himself, complaining that there is “no cure or coming back.”
Testing showed that Nettles did not have AIDS.
Around 1 p.m. the same day Nettles was found dead, the cashier at the Admiral Gas Station, 4219 Kalamazoo Ave. SE, identified Carnegie as the man who walked up and passed her a note reading “Your job is not worth your life.”
The clerk testified she gave Carnegie more than $200 from the cash drawer.
The note identified by the clerk was allegedly found in the 2008 Hyundai Accent that Carnegie was driving in California when he was arrested.
Purlee said when he interviewed the defendant in California, Carnegie confessed to the robbery.
“(Carnegie) acknowledged that he had committed the robbery to obtain money to leave Grand Rapids,” Purlee testified.
Purlee said Carnegie claimed he left town to get away from two guys who were labeled a “drug cartel.”
Defense attorney John Grace argued that his client should not be tried for armed robbery because no gun was ever seen or implied by Carnegie.
However, Judge David Buter decided the note passed at the gas station robbery was threatening enough to make a reasonable person believe that a weapon would be used to kill whomever did not comply with the robber’s demands.
Carnegie was bound over to Kent County Circuit Court on a charge of open murder and armed robbery. He faces trial before Judge George Buth.
