Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, June 15, 1990                   TAG: 9006150853
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO  
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THREE FOUND SLAIN IN SALTVILLE

Mickey W. Davidson, 33, was being held in lieu of $500,000 bond in the Smyth County Jail in Marion.

He faces three counts of capital murder.

The bodies of his wife, Doris Davidson, 36, and her daughters, Mamie and Tammy Clatterbuck, were found Thursday in their home.

All three victims appeared to have been killed by blows to the head with a crowbar found in the house, said Chief Deputy Kenny Lewis.

Doris Davidson's body was found on the living-room floor, covered by a mattress.

Lewis said it looked as though she had been hit twice on the head.

The children's bodies were found in a bedroom.

Mamie, 14, was stretched out on a bed with a plastic garbage bag over her head.

Tammy, 13, was lying across a mattress on the floor and had been covered by blankets.

Mamie and Tammy Clatterbuck were students at Northwood Middle School in Saltville.

Their father, William David Clatterbuck, lives in Front Royal.

The slayings occurred between 10 and 11 a.m. Wednesday, but the bodies weren't found until about 1 p.m. Thursday after police received a tip, Lewis said. He did not elaborate.

Lewis said he went to the Davidsons' home with Steve Server, assistant chief of the Saltville Police Department, but there appeared to be nobody home and they couldn't see anything through the windows.

They went searching for Davidson and found him driving through Saltville. He gave police permission to search the house, Lewis said.

No motive for the killings was immediately clear, Lewis said.

"She was maybe in the process of leaving him," said Lewis. "That's all we can figure out right now."

Lewis said Davidson was a Smyth County native and worked as a laborer. Doris Davidson worked as a part-time housekeeper, he said.