A South Carolina woman has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon nearly two years after a man was found dead long Highway 321 in Gaston County.
Prosecutors said in court Tuesday that Shirley Dukes forced Glen Miller to live in a tent behind her apartment threatened him with hammer before his body was found wrapped in tape and tossed onto rocks along the highway on February 2024, WSOC reported.
They said they found videos of the abuse Miller endured on Dukes’ cell phone.
“(Dukes) made him apologize for being disgusting and ungrateful to her,” prosecutor Sean Baetjer said.
Baetjer said the Dukes had “essentially taken control of Miller’s life.”
She had deleted the most disturbing video, he said, but investigators recovered the video showing Miller scrubbing Dukes’ bathroom floor while she stood over him with a hammer.
“She was telling him he better to do a good job, or she would hit him with the hammer again,” the Baetjar said.
He was seen in the video with a gash on his head — an injury he had when his body was found. He was also wearing the same clothes as in the video.
She also called several people on the day the videos were recorded, including a man whose fingerprints were found on the tape that wrapped Miller’s body. He has been charged with concealing a dead body.
Dukes denied the accusations in court, saying “It’s not true.”
Prosecutors suspect Dukes killed Miller, but they only had enough evidence to charge her with assault.
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