AUGUSTA, Ga. -- An Augusta woman is in jail, accused of killing her boyfriend by hitting him in the head with a high-heeled shoe.
Richmond County investigators say Thelma Carter, 46, hit Robert Higdon, 58, in the head with the shoe during a domestic dispute. They say Higdon may have been dead for hours before help arrived.
This all happened Monday morning at a mobile park home on Milledgeville road.
"She said, 'My guy, he is not moving,'" said Michelle Vowell, Carter's neighbor.
Vowell said the suspect was holding her cell phone and pacing back and forth.
"She came to my door disoriented and she said, 'Please help me call 911,'" she said. "'I can't dial 911.'"
Vowell called 911 and went next door to check on Robert. Vowell said the man was lying on the floor in a pool of blood and something seemed strange.
"I touched his body and it seemed as if he had been lying there for hours," she said. "Something seemed strange about the scene."
Investigators say Carter and Higdon got into a fight that turned physical Sunday evening. They say Carter hit her boyfriend in the head with a high-heeled shoe and he died.
"I did not see any kind of shoe near him at all," Vowell said.
Carter said she came home and found her boyfriend lying dead on the floor. Investigators say they believe the suspect put her shoe back on and left the crime scene.
Vowell said she didn't hear any noise coming from the home Sunday night.
"It was just so odd because usually they have the lights on until midnight, sometimes all night long," Vowell said.
It did not take long for investigators to arrest Carter on charges of murder.
"She did not seem truly upset," Vowell said. "She just seemed distraught."
Neighbors say the couple often fought. Investigators are looking into a possible case of domestic violence. An autopsy is needed to determine Higdon's exact cause of death.
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