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Terrance “Konomi” Plummer (Ace of Spades, North Carolina)

July 22, 2026

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In May 2010, 22-year-old Terrence “Konomi” Plummer was found murdered in an abandoned duplex in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The crime was so brutal that it stayed with everyone who touched the case—especially Lieutenant Jeff Locklear. But what began as another homicide investigation became the one case he could never solve. More than a decade later, the answer came from something investigators had possessed all along: a bloody palm print that had been sitting in a database, waiting for the right query.

A Crime Scene That Would Not Let Go

When Locklear arrived at the scene on Memorial Day weekend 2010, the heat was suffocating. It was 95 degrees, the power was off, and the duplex was filthy—strewn with trash, beer bottles, and cigarette butts. The smell of death and blood filled the room. Plummer’s body lay face down, wig displaced, bra still on, but naked from the waist down. A bloody knife lay nearby.

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  • 1 Terrance “Konomi” Plummer (Ace of Spades, North Carolina)
  • 2 (01:02) **Case Introduction** - The brutal murder of 22-year-old Terrance Plummer on Memorial Day weekend 2010 becomes Lieutenant Jeff Locklear’s white whale
  • 3 (03:30) **The Crime Scene Horror** - Locklear details the specific injuries that reveal the killer’s state of mind
  • 4 (08:10) **Building Trust in the Neighborhood** - Locklear uses McDonald’s breakfasts to earn cooperation from sex workers in the area
  • 5 (10:25) **The Investigative Challenge** - The shared space creates a forensic nightmare with too many potential suspects
  • 6 (13:55) **The Breakthrough Evidence** - A bloody palm print on the bathroom sink becomes the key piece of evidence
  • 7 (16:47) **The First Setback** - The palm print doesn’t match anyone in the local AFIS database

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Show Notes

Our card this week is Terrance "Konomi" Plummer, the Ace of Spades from North Carolina.

 It was Memorial Day weekend in 2010, and hot as hades in North Carolina, when 22-year-old Terrance “Konomi” Plummer Junior was found murdered in a crime so brutal—and so deliberate—that it stayed with everyone who touched the case—especially Lt. Jeff Locklear. What began as another homicide investigation became the one case he could never shake—his White Whale. More than a decade later, the answer would come from something investigators had possessed all along. And information they never knew existed—finally solving Plummer's murder and giving Locklear something he'd spent years chasing: closure.

 

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