Carrying legal papers, Baltimore County detectives took the husband of a woman found dead wrapped in a blanket for questioning after briefly searching their Perry Hall home Tuesday.
Two plainclothes detectives and a uniformed officer driving a mobile forensics lab arrived at the home of Michael Amick at about 2 p.m. Tuesday.
They emerged several minutes later and escorted him into the back seat of an unmarked vehicle.
A Kingsville resident found the body of Amick?s wife, 40-year-old Roxanne Stitz Amick, in a wooded area off Belair Road on Friday not far from the couple?s home.
Police said Michael Amick was not placed under arrest and is not considered a suspect at this time.
“As a normal course of investigation, we certainly talk to the family and try to exclude them from the investigation before moving on to other people,” police spokesman Cpl. Michael Hill said.
Michael Amick declined to comment to reporters outside his home on Necker Avenue before the detectives arrived.
Roberta Foxwell, Amick?s next-door neighbor, said the couple seemed to get along well.
She said police have been in and out of the home for the past several days.
“He?s alwaysbeen patient with his children and played with them,” Foxwell said. “He was just a quiet, nice guy.”
Police said an autopsy on Roxanne Amick has been performed, but the cause of death has not been determined.
A family member reported Roxanne Amick missing early Thursday morning, police said.
The family member said she never returned after leaving the house in her van Wednesday afternoon.
Police found the 1998 green Plymouth Voyager in the parking lot of the Perry Hall Shopping Center later Thursday morning.
Michael Amick was Roxanne?s second husband, said Harold Campbell, a Dundalk resident who said he?s been friends with her for 25 years.
Campbell said Roxanne was a former teacher and was focusing on being a good mother.
“She was the type of person who lit up the room when she came in,” Campbell said. “Whatever happened to her, she didn?t deserve it.”
