A Parkville man who reported his wife missing in September 2006 has been charged with her murder.
Michael Amick, 56, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder last week. He is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $250,000 bail.
Recent advances in DNA technology linked Roxanne Amick's death to her husband, Baltimore County Police said.
On September 14, 2006, Baltimore County Police responded to the Amick home in the 4200 block of Necker Avenue in Parkville for a missing person report. Michael Amick told police that Roxanne left their home at 2 p.m. on the day before to go shopping and never returned. She took his 1998 Plymouth Voyager and left her cellphone at home, he said.
Later that afternoon, the Plymouth Voyager was located unoccupied behind a shopping center in the 8800 block of Belair Road.
Just before 8:30 a.m. on September 15, 2006, Roxanne Amick’s body was located in a wooded area near Belair Road and Perry Hall Road. Her body was wrapped in two blankets and was in an area that contained a large amount of poison ivy plants.
Amick's death was ruled a homicide after an autopsy.
Michael Amick was brought to police headquarters, where he said that he and Roxanne had been involved in an argument and that's why she left.
Police at the time noticed he had a rash on his arms that was later determined to be from poison ivy. Amick was taken to Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where doctors said he would have gotten the rash within three days of Sept. 15.
Work gloves had been found in the minivan. Recent advances in DNA technology allowed DNA found inside the right hand work glove to be matched with Michael Amick’s DNA profile. The blankets that Roxanne Amick’s body was found wrapped in belonged to the Amicks.
Michael Amick moved to Hawaii after Roxanne’s death. He recently returned to the Baltimore area to visit, police said..
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