Robin Carle’s body was found in Phoenix on August 5, 2013, concealed beneath an overturned couch in an alley near 19th Avenue and Cactus Road. Investigators determined he had been stabbed to death and concluded from the state of decomposition and the absence of blood at the scene that the killing likely occurred elsewhere sometime between August 3 and August 5.

Forensic evidence recovered at the scene included a bloody knife pulled from a nearby dumpster and DNA from a woman beneath Carle’s fingernails. The investigation stalled for nearly five years until March 2018, when a 28-year-old woman named Makayla Lamb was arrested on an unrelated charge and her DNA matched the profile from the Carle evidence. Lamb was charged on March 26 with second-degree murder and concealing a body; court records show prior convictions for trespassing, theft, and drug offenses. Lamb reportedly denied knowing Carle and could not explain the DNA match.

Does anyone have information about Carle’s movements in early August 2013 or about connections between him and Makayla Lamb?