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Note: Ted's handwritten notes on the report are included as footnotes.
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Guilford County
Sheriff's Department
1. Incident Number:
951009027
2. Identification
Officer: Sgt. L. A. LINDELL
3. Requesting Officer:
B. C. YARBOROUGH Crime Lab Technician
4. Type of Case:
Homicide/Arson
5. Notified Time/Date:
1250hrs. / Monday /10-9-95 6. Arrival Time/Date: 0112hrs. / Tuesday / 10-10-95
7. Completion
Time/Date: 0415hrs. / Wednesday / 10-11-95
8. Victim/Address:
2104 Brandon Station Ct.= Pleasant Garden, NC
9. Duties Performed:
Latent Lifts #7
10. Narrative of
Crime Scene: When I arrived at the scene I was met by Capt. J. W.
CLARK and Lt. J. G. BRYANT my immediate supervisors; they advised
the initial work was already completed. The call was initially
dispatched to Crime Scene Technician, Brian YARBOROUGH at 2100 hrs.,
Monday, October 9, 1995. The case indicated there was a arson to
hide the death of a white-female named Patricia
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Gale KIMBLE, a white female age
twenty-eight who is married to Theodore Mead KIMBLE, a white male
age twenty-five. The family has no children.
The residence is located in the
southern sector of Guilford County approximately nine miles in
straight line with the G.C.S.D. Crime Lab at 2 S. Greene Street.
Brandon Station Court is a road to the west of Highway 22 with
Brandon Station Road to the east, the area has fairly new developed
housing southeast of the central portion of the Pleasant Garden
Community. Brandon Station Court has only one residence which the
Homicide/Arson occurred. The residence is located on a hill at thee
south side or left side of the court as the road bends to the right
into a cul-de-sac. The residence faces twenty degrees from magnetic
north and is 184 feet from the courts road edge. The house is
surrounded by woods on three sides with numerous trees in the front
yard. Across the road is a cleared right-of-way for the overhead
power line support having latticework towers.
The ranch style house is reasonably
secluded and is accessible by a gravel driveway to a cement floored
two car garage that is in the final stages of construction. The
garage is open at the front and is a addition to the house structure
on the right or west side.
On the left side of the gravel
driveway, 24'5" from the passenger side front bumper to the front
edge of the cement garage floor was the victims vehicle, a 1991 gray
color, four dooR Subaru. The keys were in the ignition and Patricia
KIMBLE'S purse was on the forward portion of the front passenger
seat. The windows of the vehicle were rolled up and the car doors
were unlocked.
The only entrances to the house are
the front and entrance door from the garage garage which opens to a
dining area with a kitchen area extended; both are separated by a
short wall partition which encompasses the refrigerator and serves
as a short dividing wall to the living room on the right side of the
entrance from the garage. This garage door is located at the back
right corner of the garage and had pry marks at the door knob, but
none at the deadbolt which was not locked. The pry marks were not
deep and appeared to be a made from a half inch flat pry bar
similiar to that of a dull wood chisel; there was no deep gouging.
The door is a heavy wood frame construction with full length glass
having a doorknob lock and a deadbolt lock above. A thin curtain
covered the glass on the inside of the door and the deadbolt lock
face was imprinted on the edge of the curtain as if the curtain were
shut in the door.
On the dining room linoleum floor
3'3" inside from the garage entrance was a red color plastic gas can
with a liquid substance in which was later determined by the S.B.I.
to be gasoline of approximately one gallon in volume.
When the debris was cleaned away from
the linolium flooring there was a dark brown pour pattern on the
floor and carpet of the living room which extended across the sofa
near the open foyer to a three foot wide hallway going down the
middle of the house with rooms on each side. A little more than
three feet down the hallway the floor was burned out for
approximately six and a half feet. In this burnt out space the body
of Patricia Gale KIMBLE was located when a fireman fell through/into
the hole, a aluminum ladder was laid across the opening so
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access could be gained to the other
side. A washing machine that was in a laundry on the right side of
the hallway fell into the same opening when the floor gave way from
the weight of the machine having nothing to support it. The floor
joists were completely burned away and water pressure from the fire
hoses made the attic drywall and insulation fall into the hole on
top of the victims body. The victim was laying face down on top of
the fabricated metal heating supply duct with her upper torso
slightly elevated. In order to obtain photographs of her position I
went outside and gained access through the crawl space door that was
already open and then gained a better position to photograph her
from the underneath side.
Fire Marshall Ed Rich got in the hole
and removed the refuse in layers until the body was in full view. A
clean white sheet was laid out in the hole and the victim was rolled
on to it face up and then the package was taken out to the garage
floor and photographed in detail. The body was totally almost
charred; both hands were extended above shoulder with left arm
slightly higher. The back side of the left hand was cupped near the
cheekbone of the face and the right arm was extended and bent upward
at the elbow with the hand at head height. There was little if no
hair on the head and the scalp skin had split open; what appeared to
be a head wound just below ear level went from victims left to right
without exiting. The upper right portion of the leg was missing
along with the left foot. A thin gold color chain and pendant was
around the neck and gold color rings were on the ring finger of the
left hand. There was a bangle type bracelet above the right wrist.
The victim was transported to Chapel Hill Medical Examiners Office
by Cross Transportation for autopsy.
In proceeding down the three foot
wide hall, a bathroom is on the left with a laundry closet with
louvered doors directly across. Forward of he laundry closet is a
small bedroom with windows at the front of the house. At the end of
the hall on the right with windows at the front of the house is what
appeared to be a entertainment/storage room. At the end of the hall
on the left or the back right corner of the residence is the master
bedroom which includes a walk-in closet and bathroom where the
family dog was deceased on the floor.
210 AIt may have had a total of only 13 in the gun
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characteristics between the
projectile removed from the victim and the suspected cartridge fired
from Item #15 the suspected weapon. At this date a positive
identification has not been made and further testing is being done.
A dark hair was removed from the
suspected weapon Item #15; the hair, Item #18 was sent to the S.B.I.
for comparrison and is microscopically consistant with the victims,
Patricia Gale KIMBLE.
A shell casing was never located at
the crime scene, numerous hours were spent sifting through the
debris/refuse with no results. The search covered the hall, hall
bathroom, burnt out hole in floor to the clean dirt; many of the
plastic items fused together from the heatA
and would require X-ray to determine if the projectile was there.
These items were not collected.
During the sifting process a knife
with a eight inch blade was found in the hole, there were no signs
of it being burnt. Possibly knocked on the floor by water pressure
and flowed into the hole. Refer to item #30.
There was also found a portion of a
brassiere in the hole that appeared to have blood on same and was
collected as Evidence Item #64.
211 AIt was so hot in the house, the T.V. in the living room melted.
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