Chuckie Mauk

Charles "Chuckie" Mauk was an American murder victim in Warner Robins, Georgia. He was shot in the head in the parking lot of the former Giant Food store, now Video Warehouse, off Russell Parkway on February 17, 1986 at the age of thirteen. He and a friend had ridden their bicycles from their homes about a block away to the store to buy some gum and candy. The crime remains unsolved.
The Crime
A friend of Chuck's came to alert the family that the 13-year-old boy may have fallen off his bicycle and was hurt. Chuck was sprawled on the pavement and bleeding near his bicycle in a parking lot a few blocks from home. The shopping hub was a popular hangout among young people. As his mother, Cathy Miller, ran down the street with Chuck's stepfather and his 6-year-old stepbrother in tow, a terrible feeling of dread overwhelmed her. "I could just tell it was worse," she recalled in a later interview. A crowd of onlookers was already forming.
"By the time I got there, my husband stopped me from getting closer," Miller recalled. Police arrived and soon determined Chuck had been killed by a gunshot wound to the back of the head, according to investigators. Chuckie was found by his parents lying in the parking lot near his bike, Miller said. He was still clutching the bubble gum he had bought at the store.
Capt. Robert Clark of the Houston County Sheriff's Office, who headed the criminal investigation division in 2004, was a deputy on patrol back then. He was one of the first police officers on the scene. "The call came in as a hit-and-run," Clark said.
A couple out walking heard what they thought was a car backfiring and saw a white car moments later speeding out of the shopping center. The couple found Chuckie face down by his bicycle in a pool of blood.
When Harry Enckler, who was chief of investigations for the sheriff's office, arrived, he knew immediately that he wasn't dealing with a hit-and-run. There was just too much blood, he said. There has never been any solid evidence to link these crimes.
Reward
On the 20th anniversary of the murder, a $5,000 reward was offered by The Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation. The foundation is named after Carole Sund, Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso, three women who were reported missing and later found murdered near Yosemite National Park in February 1999, according to a statement from Kim Petersen, the foundation's executive director. It is believed a reward offered in that case resulted in information that helped authorities ultimately find out what happened to the three women, who had disappeared while sight-seeing, the statement said. Despite the media attention, investigators have received no new leads since 1986.

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