Crime & Safety

Report: Prosecutors Say Sex Video Shows Phylicia Barnes, Accused Murderer

Lawyers say the 16-year-old honor student was shown "intoxicated" in a video with her accused killer, according to news reports.

Prosecutors in the case against the accused killer of Phylicia Barnes will show a video at trial depicting the teenage victim “intoxicated and engaging in sexual relations” with her accused killer and others, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Barnes, a 16-year-old from North Carolina, went missing from Baltimore three days after Christmas 2010, while she was in Baltimore visiting her half-sister. Barnes’s body was found in the Susquehanna River in April 2011.

The search for Barnes spread out across Maryland, reaching Howard County in the spring of 2011. 

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During a Maryland State Police-led search of the Patapsco Valley State Park on April 9, .

Hagegeorge died from natural causes and exposure, according to police.

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Less than two weeks later, workers on the Conowingo Dam reported to police that they thought they saw a body in the Susquehanna River. . The State Medical Examiner’s office ruled her death a homicide.

Barnes’s half-sister’s boyfriend, Michael Maurice Johnson, 28, faces first-degree murder charges in Barnes’s death. His trial is scheduled to begin in late January.


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