ELIZABETH CITY
A man who is already in a North Carolina prison was indicted in connection with the slaying of an Elizabeth City woman who had been missing since 2006 and whose body was found buried outside the city Friday.
The body was identified as that of Mary Tressa Bond Carter, 29, of Elizabeth City, said Pasquotank County Sheriff Randy Cartwright.
On Monday, a Pasquotank County grand jury indicted Curtis Roch, 30, on a charge of murder, a news release from the sheriff’s office said. Roch is serving a sentence for failing to report as a sex offender in Pasquotank County, Cartwright said. He finishes serving that sentence in February.
Carter was last seen in August 2006 when her mother dropped her off for work in Kill Devil Hills, Cartwright said. She was formally reported missing to Kill Devil Hills police in December 2007.
Police learned that she was dating Roch when she went missing. The two were living in a trailer in Pasquotank County.
Cartwright said his department was brought into the investigation in February of this year.
Early in the investigation, authorities believed it could have been murder, Cartwright said.
Investigators determined that Carter had been killed in August 2006 in the camper trailer just south of Elizabeth City and was buried less than a mile away in a farm field, the news release from the sheriff’s office said.
Cartwright said a medical examiner has yet to determine the cause of death, but it appears Carter was strangled or had her neck broken.
Lauren King, (757) 446-2309, lauren.king@pilotonline.com
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
