A Tennessee jailer has been arrested after an investigation into allegations that she was having sex with an inmate. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said last month that it had placed Akira Jones on leave after launching an investigation into a complaint it received in December, WHBQ reported. She was arrested on Tuesday and charged …
It’s been nearly three years since 5-year-old Summer Wells vanished from her rural East Tennessee home, sparking an intense search that officials say is not over. Sunday was the girl’s 8th birthday, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which posted on social media to mark the day. “Although we still don’t have the answers …
A Georgia sex offender was shot and killed early Friday morning by law enforcement just off Interstate 75 in Tennessee after he kidnapped an 11-year-old girl in Knoxville. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered Child Alert Thursday evening, saying the girl was last seen on Tuesday. The agency later identified the suspect as …
A convicted sex offender escaped his Tennessee county jail on Friday but was back in jail a day later. Putnam County Sheriff Eddie Farris told WZTV that a door was left unlocked, allowing Jack Janes, 42, to walk out of the jail unhindered. “Anytime an inmate escapes, we obviously have made a mistake in order …
A 76-year-old Nashville woman was found dead this week, and her 70-year-old husband has been charged with her murder. Jackie Glynn was reported missing earlier this week, last seen on January 1 at her home on Abbott Martin Road that she shared with her husband, Joseph Glynn. Her body was found buried on property the …
A Tennessee mother and her boyfriend have been arrested after her 2-year-old son died three days after he was allegedly thrown against a wall. Deputies responded to a call on December 2 to a Baxter home and found the toddler, Ventura Mora-Francisco, unresponsive, WSMV reported. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital and then …
Sean Williams was indicted on more than 2 dozens counts of child sex crimes in September.
A relative has identified three of the victims she says were murdered by her uncle in a three-scene shooting spree in Memphis on Saturday. As CrimeOnline reported, Mavis Christian Jr, 50, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after the bodies of three women and a 13-year-old girl were found across south Memphis. …
A 15-year-old girl was critically injured in one of the three shootings.
A Nashville college freshman died last week a day after she was struck in the head by a stray bullet, fired by a man who had been released from custody in another shooting after doctors found he was incompetent to stand trial. Both Jillian Ludwig’s parents and Nashville officials slammed state law that allowed for …
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a Blue Alert late Saturday night for the “estranged son” of Nashville Police Chief John Drake, who is suspected of shooting two La Vergne police officers outside a store in the Nashville suburb earlier in the day. John C. Drake Jr., 38, was also added to TBI’s most wanted …
