Saturday's Internet Edition, May 10, 2008.
Sheriff’s Department Still Investigating Murder Of Mother, Daughter In 1995
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| Sheriff’s Detective Kim Palmer looks over the paper work in a 12-year-old, unsolved double murder in Davie County. - Photo by Robin Snow |
Davie Sheriff’s Detective Kim Palmer sits in her office. She is surrounded by black file binders, heaps of folders, and large manilla envelopes.
This is evidence from a double murder that happened more than a decade ago in Davie County. Murders that still remain unsolved.
On June 6, 1995 authorities responded to a reported fire at 474 Jack Booe Road, Mocksville.
This was the rental home of 22-year-old Tracy Jill Garner. Inside the charred remains of the single wide mobile home authorities discovered Garner’s body, along with her 42-year-old mother's, Dresa Campbell Matayoshi.
The mother and daughter were each bound with their arms behind their backs in one of the bedrooms. Autopsy reports later revealed they had not died as a result of the fire, but were strangled to death.
The day of the murders Garner had driven her early 1980s model black pick-up to the Willow Oaks Shopping Center around 5 p.m. Around 7:30 p.m. Matayoshi and her husband stopped by Garner's home. Matayoshi's husband left Garner's home around 8 p.m. to take a vehicle to another home to work on it. It was the last time he would see his step-daughter and wife alive. Garner did not return to Willow Oaks Shopping Center at 9 p.m. to pick up her sister.
Both her sister and Matayoshi's husband called Garner's home phone, but got no answer and the answering machine was not working.
A neighbor of Garner's arrived home around 9:30 p.m. and reported they smelled smoke in the area. Matayoshi's husband arrived at the home around 10:30 p.m., saw there were no lights on inside, and after being unable to get anyone to come to the door, he left. The fire was ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.