Investigators are probing the death of a Middle Tennessee State University professor who was found shot dead in the middle of a roadway in Dekalb County early Thursday morning. The Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office said deputies responded to the shooting and found “a loaded and cocked handgun” next to the body of 41-year-old Ashleigh …
A Tennessee couple has been charged with cild neglect after police conducting a wellness check at the home found two young chidren living in filthy and disgusting conditions. Leon Woods, 65, and Carol Phillips, 32, apparently had an argument Friday night and somehow that came to the attention of Woods’ adult daughter, he called police, …
Investigators this week followed up on a lead in the four-year-old case of Summer Wells, the Tennessee girl who vanished from her Hawkins County home when she was 5 years old. A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesperson told WJHL that its agents and detectives were at a rural location about 10 miles from the girl’s …
A Tennessee man has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and arson after he allegedly lit his grandmother on fire. An arrest report says that a witness restrained Christopher Medula, 39, until deputies arrived on the scene, WRCB reported. The victim was flown to a hospital in Nashville with burns on 70 percent of …
The Tennessee man accused of killing four members of a family and kidnapping a baby has been indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury. Prosecutors said Austin Drummond was formally charged with four counts of first degree murder, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, aggravated kidnapping, and possession …
A Tennessee man has been charged with murder in the death of his mother. Linda Spivey, 76, was found dead at her Lake Tansi home on November 3 when deputies conducted a welfare check, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office teamed up with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the 13th Judicial …
The trial is under way for a Tennessee mother accused of neglecting her 13-year-old son to death, more than three years after she was indicted. Kadaris Maddox had cerebral palsy and weighed just 38 pounds when he died on July 6, 2022. An autopsy report said the boy died of malnutrition, Clarksville Now reported. On …
A Tennessee couple pleaded guilty this week to aggravated child abuse and neglect, a year and a half after one of their four adopted daughters collapsed and was subsequently discovered to be severely malnourished. Another adopted daughter, the biological sibling of the first, was found in the same condition after Jason and Jessica Klimp called …
Two employees of a Tennessee plastics plant, including the company vice president, were shot and killed Monday morning by a man who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The medical examiner has not yet confirmed the killer’s identity, but the victims were identified as Ivan Aldergot, vice president of Barku Plastics in …
Authorities in Tennessee have matched a skull found in 2004 to a missing college student who disappeared in 1986. Alice Mae Sullivan, 20, was reported missing on August 29, 1986, after she failed to pick up her 3-year-old son from a babysitter’s home, The Tennesseean reported. Sullivan was a student at Tennessee State University and …
A federal grand jury has indicted a Tennessee cop on charges of kidnapping and stalking his estranged girlfriend while he was on duty and in uniform in August. Alan James Greenman, 38, was arrested for the incident on August 21 and lost his job with the Clarksville Police Department, Clarksville Now reported. “The trust of …
A Tennessee couple was arrested this week, 10 months after their indictment on child abuse charges and nearly two years after police began in investigation into the allegations. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office was never able to locate Harry James Reed II , 26, and Alexis D. Austin, 22, however, until an anonymous tip told …
