Man carrying human bones charged with murder

DURHAM -- A grand jury found enough evidence to try a Mebane man for murder after he was found possessing human bones.

Michael Dorman II, 32, has been held on $1 million bond since July, after the Durham County District Attorney’s office initially charged him with failing to report a death. The grand jury indicted him on the more serious charge.

The victim is Lakeia Boxley, whose mother reported her missing on March 8, 2008.

Dorman told a friend he met a prostitute in Durham and gave her money for sex and crack cocaine, according to District Attorney Tracey Kline.

"He became agitated and shot her with a shotgun," Kline told a judge at Dorman's probable cause hearing last month.

The friend alerted the Orange County Sheriff's Office this summer after Dorman told him he had killed a woman in Durham two years ago and asked him to help dispose of the bones, according to a search warrant.

The friend cooperated with police, taking a green backpack containing the bones from Dorman on July 14 under surveillance and putting the bag in an unmarked sheriff's truck.

Dorman was brought to the sheriff's office for questioning and told an investigator he had found the bones in Durham, according to the warrant. Searching Dorman's home at 1411 Sundown Drive in Mebane last month, Durham police investigator Christopher Robinson seized paperwork, a computer, cameras and photographs, including some of at least one child.

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