Woman found slain in Catalina Foothills home is identified

Woman found slain

in Foothills home ID’d

A woman who was shot multiple times and found dead last week in a Catalina Foothills home was identified as Dorease L. Clarke.

Clarke, 55, was the live-in girlfriend of Myron Elliot Fletcher, 56, who was booked into the Pima County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Fletcher, who runs an auto salvage yard, is being held on a $100,000 bond.

Pima County sheriff’s deputies found Clarke at a home in the 3500 block of East Guthrie Mountain Place, near East Skyline and Sunrise drives, on March 18 during a welfare check, said Deputy Courtney Rodriguez, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.

It took a week to identify Clarke because of the condition of her body.

Pima Animal Care officers, who responded to the house in reference to possible abandoned animals, notified deputies twice about a stench coming from the home. Deputies did not notice anything suspicious March 16 but did smell an odor and saw flies on a window at the home March 18, according to a search warrant.

The body was found in the master bedroom. Also found were a .22-caliber rifle, a holster for a handgun and an empty box of 9 mm ammunition. No handgun was found, according to court records.

The last time Clarke was seen in public was March 4, when surveillance video showed her walking into a Foothills CVS drugstore with Fletcher, according to court documents.

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Four days later, on March 8, Fletcher admitted himself to Palo Verde Hospital, an in-patient mental-health center. Investigators tracked him to the hospital March 18, and he “told deputies that he did not want anyone in his house,” state court records.

“When he was told about the flies and the smell, he told deputies that the power sometimes goes out because of the electrical breakers and also that he believes that he has rotting meat in the freezer,” according to records.

Carmen Duarte

Suspect booked
in midtown killing

A man is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder in a gang-related slaying at a midtown apartment complex last week.

Tenell Mure, 32, was booked into the Pima County jail Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of Marshal Davis, 34, on March 21 at the complex at 3666 E. Second St., said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.

Mure could be charged with one count each of first-degree murder, drive-by shooting and tampering with evidence, Widmer said.

Shortly after 11 p.m. March 21, police responded to a report of gunshots at the complex and found Davis in the parking lot with gunshot wounds, said Widmer. Davis was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives are searching for others in connection with the slaying and ask that anyone with information call 911 or 88-CRIME.

Carmen Duarte