By Alicia Reynolds
Baltimore Watchdog Staff Writer
A 56-year-old Parkville man was taken into custody Thursday and faces charges in connection with the 2006 death of his wife, police said Monday.
Michael Amick, who recently came back to the Baltimore area for a visit after living in Hawaii for several years, was charged with first-degree murder and is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on a $250,000 bond, police said.
The charges stem from an incident that occurred on Sept. 13, 2006, when Baltimore County police say they responded to the home of Michael and Roxanne Amick at 4200 Necker Ave. in Parkville for a missing person report.
Michael Amick told the police that his wife, Roxanne, left their home at 2 p.m. that day to go shopping and never returned, police said.
Police said Roxanne Amick’s body was located in a wooded area near Belair Road and Perry Hall Road at about 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, 2006.
The body was wrapped in two blankets and was in an area that contained a large amount of poison ivy plants, police said. An autopsy concluded the cause of Roxanne Amick’s death was multiple injuries and the manner of her death was homicide, police said.
According to police, Michael Amick had a rash on his arms that ran from his wrists to below where a short sleeve shirt would have ended. He was taken to GBMC, where the rash was determined to be related to plant material like poison ivy, police said.
Police also said that the blankets that Roxanne Amick’s body was found wrapped in belonged to the Amicks. They said they found work gloves in the couple’s 1998 Plymouth Voyager minivan that had traces of DNA consistent with Michael Amick’s DNA profile.
The case was reviewed again by the state attorney and detectives were told to obtain an arrest warrant for Michael Amick, police said.