The accused killer and two co-conspirators who helped him dispose of the body have been indicted in the apparent murder of Daniel Mayo. His body has yet to be found.
The alleged murderer, Timmie Lee Bain, 49, was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. Dustin Ray McKillip was indicted on charges of first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and accessory after the fact. A third suspect, Gary Lee Lankford Jr., was indicted on the charge of being an accessory after the fact.
Bain stands charged with shooting his roommate and co-worker in the face with a shotgun during a drunken argument at their apartment that adjoined a hog farm where they worked at Mud Creek. The incident, which happened over two years ago, was allegedly witnessed by Marie Parsley who had come to the home to bring Bain dinner. She testified during a recent preliminary hearing that she walked in on Bain and Mayo cursing and yelling at one another and noted Bain pulled a shotgun.
Parsley said she advised Mayo to run but he didn’t take her advice. Instead, he stood outside taunting Bain, saying he didn’t even know how to fire a gun. That is when she said Bain walked out and shot Mayo in the face.
A short time later, the woman recalled several people showing up at the residence. While she did not witness it, she said the men cleaned up blood and moved the body and threw it into a small pond on the hog farm. She said she saw the body floating a few days later and told people she intended to go to the police. That is when she maintains McKillip threatened her life.
“You go to the police and I’ll kill you,” she recalled McKillip saying.
After the threat, Parsley said the men again moved the body and buried it elsewhere on the hog farm. The remains have still not been found despite the best efforts of lawmen and cadaver dogs.