Nancy Grace takes new look at 1986 killing of Warner Robins teen Chuckie Mauk
More than 34 years ago, 13-year-old Chuckie Mauk was shot in the back of the head near a neighborhood grocery store where he’d ridden to get some candy and gum on his bicycle.
He was found face down in a pool of blood with the bubble gum and the grocery store receipt still in his hand, according to Telegraph archives.
The killing remains unsolved.
But a new team of crime scene investigators, forensic experts and legal analysts are reviewing the 1986 case, thanks to Fox News host and Macon native Nancy Grace.
Grace launched her new show “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” on Fox Nation with an episode about the slaying Monday. The show can be viewed on demand and from a mobile app by Fox Nation subscribers.
“It’s been 34 years, Nancy, can you believe that?” Chuckie’s mom, Cathy Miller, tells Grace on the show. “Sometimes I ask myself, you know, how long do I do this? I mean ...”
Grace interjects, “I know how long — until you can’t do it anymore.”
Miller continues, “I mean I know I’ll never quit.”
That’s because Miller made a promise to Chuckie.
“As long as his murder was unsolved, I would be his voice,” Miller previously told The Telegraph. “There’s someone out there that knows what happened that night.”
The sociable, blue-eyed teenager who loved baseball and motorcycles was shot and killed about 8:15 p.m. Feb. 17, 1986, in a parking lot around the corner from his Burns Drive home in Warner Robins.
He had gone to what was once the Giant Food store off Russell Parkway to get some candy for school the next day. He was found near his bicycle in the parking lot between the intersection of Burns Drive and Russell Parkway and the fence line separating the residential neighborhood from a bowling alley. A restaurant once stood nearby.
The shopping hub was a popular hangout among young people.
At first, it was thought that Chuckie had fallen off his bicycle, but a single bullet had entered the back of his head, severed his brain stem and exited through his nose, sheriff’s investigators said.
“He was dead before he hit the ground,” Harry Enckler, a retired captain who headed the investigation at the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, told The Telegraph in a 2006 story about the 20th anniversary of the slaying.
Witnesses reported that Chuckie talked with a man in a white car before he was shot behind Roy and Rose’s Restaurant, a few feet from the intersection of Burns Drive and Russell Parkway. The restaurant is long gone.
Neither the man nor the white car was located.
Anyone with information about the case, should contact Houston County sheriff’s Capt. Jon Holland at 478-542-2085, or call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
This story was originally published March 11, 2020 at 7:00 AM.