Thursday, March 18, 2004 | 9:37 a.m.
The Las Vegas man wanted for killing his ex-girlfriend, wrapping her body in plastic and leaving her in the back seat of a car last week surrendered Wednesday to police in North Carolina.
Metro Police Homicide Lt. Tom Monahan said Michael Anthony Wilson, 33, walked into a police station in Henderson, N.C., with his father and told officers he was wanted for murder in Las Vegas.
"I'm glad that he did that," Monahan said. "It means a dangerous person isn't at large."
Metro issued a warrant for Wilson's arrest on Tuesday in connection with the killing of 40-year-old Connie Shultz.
The police report says she had been bludgeoned in the head and strangled, but the exact cause of death was still pending.
Schultz's daughter Nikki Muncy filed a missing person report March 12 on her mother. She had last spoken to Schultz a week earlier, when she was preparing to leave town, according to the arrest report.
Schultz asked her daughter to call her when she got home. On March 7 Muncy went to her home in the 7500 block of Reindeer Court near Tenaya Way and Flamingo Road, but Schultz didn't answer the door. Muncy also got no answer when she called.
Muncy described the relationship between her mother and Wilson as tumultuous, and they had broken up, but they still lived together while Schultz looked for another place to live, the report says. Wilson threatened to kill Schultz if she ever left him, Muncy told police.
Patrol officers found Schultz' body wrapped in clear plastic sheeting, black trash bags and silver duct tape in the back seat of a 1998 Chrysler in the garage, according to the report.
A neighbor told detectives he had seen Wilson and Shultz on March 7. A former co-worker said Wilson called him March 8 or 9 and said he "was in a lot of trouble and couldn't go into it now but I will tell you when I see you," the report says.
On Tuesday detectives received a call from police in Alcoa, Tenn., who said the owner of a self-storage company reported a suspicious exchange she had with Wilson, whom she met five years ago when he began renting a locker there.
Wilson told her his wife had just been killed by a drunken driver in Las Vegas and he was on his way to Oak Ridge, Tenn., to tell her parents. Wilson said he "would never return to Las Vegas and may leave the country," the report says.
Wilson was being held in a North Carolina jail and was expected to be extradited to Nevada to face the murder charge.
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