Mom Was Kidnapped and Forced to Withdraw Thousands from Bank Account. Then She Was Murdered: Prosecutors

Mar. 15, 2025

Michelle Hampton (right).Photo:GoFundMe

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Prosecutors allege a Missouri mom was murdered this month after two men kidnapped her and made her withdraw large sums of money from her bank account.

Michelle Hampton, a mother of a teenage daughter, was kidnapped from her home in Clayton, Mo., on Nov. 20 and was later found dead in a St. Louis alleyway with several gunshot wounds,federal prosecutors in Missouri’s Eastern District said in a release.

Both men are also facing a litany of state-level charges, including first-degree murder, robbery, and kidnapping. They each have multiple criminal convictions going back decades, court records show.

Samantha had encountered her twin around 7:15 a.m. on Nov. 20, finding her in the driver’s seat of her Nissan Rogue and an unknown person in the passenger’s seat holding her at gunpoint, their other sister Tamara wrote in aGoFundMe fundraising plea.

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The family is raising money for funeral expenses and help with raising the victim’s children; they had raised $14,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.

source: people.com