The convicted rapist wanted in the disappearance and death of Alabama woman Paighton Houston was captured in Ohio on Wednesday following a nearly two-week manhunt.
US Marshals nabbed Fredrick Hampton, 50, at a home in Cleveland around 7:30 p.m., AL.com reported.
Authorities had issued a warrant for him on Jan. 15 for charges of abuse of a corpse for allegedly burying Houston’s body.
The 29-year-old Trussville native was last seen alive the night of Dec. 20, leaving the Tin Roof bar in Birmingham with two men she didn’t know.
“Idk who im with so if I call please answer. I feel in trouble,” read her last text, sent around 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 21 to a co-worker.
Her remains were found about two weeks later, on Jan. 3, in a shallow grave in the backyard of a home in Hueytown that belonged to relatives of Hampton.
Authorities said they have evidence Hampton was with Houston the night of Dec. 20, but stopped short of identifying him as one of the men she’d left the bar with.
He was initially taken into custody Dec. 28 but was released two days later because investigators said they didn’t have enough to charge him with a crime.
Houston’s cause and manner of death is still pending, with authorities waiting for the results of additional tests, including toxicology.
There was no physical trauma to Houston’s body that would have led to her death, authorities said.
Hampton spent 20 years in jail following a 1992 conviction for first-degree rape and sodomy, and was released in March 2012.
He was being held Cuyahoga County Jail Wednesday night.



