Firefighter Faces Charges Connected To Wife's Death

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Lebanon firefighter was in court Wednesday facing allegations he dumped his wife's body in rural Wilson County in late August.

Former Co-Worker: Man Confessed To Dumping Wife's Body

Mike Hicks faces a charge of abuse of a corpse. Investigators found his wife, Carla, dead in a Wilson County field, partially nude and wrapped in plastic.

In court Wednesday, a former co-worker said Hicks confessed to dumping the body.

"He stated that she had killed herself in a manner that would make him look guilty and wanted me to assist in changing the tires on his vehicle," said Keith Robinson, who worked with Hicks for several years.

According to Robinson, Hicks asked to meet him several days after police found Carla's body and told him he dumped his wife's body. Robinson also told the court Hicks asked for his help to cover up the crime.

Also on the witness stand, Robinson told the court Carla overdosed on drugs several times in the months leading up to her death. He also said Hicks admitted a part in her death.

"And I believe his exact words were, 'He helped her in doing what she had been wanting to do,'" said Robinson. "And I asked him what that was. And he had stated that he helped her to overdose and continued to give her pills even after she was vomiting."

A judge decided to send the case against Mike Hicks on to the grand jury.

The medical examiner hasn't completed Carla Hicks' autopsy.

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