Autopsies of two people found dead off Hwy. 106 in Madison County Sunday revealed no evidence that they were murdered.
“There was nothing to indicate foul play,” said Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Jim Fullington Tuesday afternoon.
Now, authorities will wait for the completion of toxicology reports, a process that may take two to three weeks, as they try to piece together how an Ila man and a south Georgia woman died along Hwy. 106 about a mile north of Hull-Sanford Elementary School.
The deceased man has been identified as Timothy Lee Sorrow, 31, Pine Street, Ila. The woman was identified as Tammy Marie Denmark, 39, of Lyons in Toombs County.
The two deceased were found in a pine thicket between 30 and 50 yards off Hwy. 106 Sunday afternoon between 15 and 20 yards apart, Fullington said.
A prescription bottle from a home that was burglarized in Clarke County was found with the deceased. Fullington would not say what kind of medication was in the bottle.
The GBI agent said law officers have talked with someone who saw the two walking along Hwy. 106. The agents are also speaking with family members trying to piece together the last hours of the lives of the deceased.
The dead man and woman were discovered by a motorist on Hwy. 106 Sunday.
According to Captain Mike Benner of the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, a man in a Roto Rooter pickup truck traveling along Hwy. 106 just after 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon spotted what he thought was an orange construction cone in the edge of a planted pine thicket near the road.
He reportedly told law enforcement he collects the cones, so he turned around and went back. When he approached the orange object he allegedly discovered the bodies of a white male and a white female. The “orange object” he had spotted from the road was the male’s shirt.
