A Tennessee man watched in horror as he saw his son strangling his wife on home security footage on Wednesday, the Chattanooga Times-Free Press reported Friday. The man called Chattanooga Police, who responded to the home in the northeastern part of the city and found Garrett Behlau, 19, on the floor of his bedroom, court …
A Tennessee grand jury has returned indictments on multiple charges against two men in the rape and murder of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found hidden in a densely wooded area nearly ten days after she disappeared last fall, WKRN reports. Carolyn Pope, the mother of a 5-year-old girl, was found dead on October …
A former Tennessee police officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday after admitted sexually assaulting four women while on duty and in uniform, sometimes in his patrol car, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Desmond Logan, 35, pleaded guilty last September to two civil rights offenses …
A grand jury in East Tennessee has indicted Megan Boswell, mother of deceased toddler Evelyn Boswell, on 19 counts, including two counts of felony murder, WJHL reports. Boswell, 19, has also been charged with single counts of aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, and failure to report a …
A Kansas pastor’s wife who disappeared earlier this month while driving to visit family in Alabama originally planned to make the trip by airplane, Overland Park police say, but changed her mind and set off for Birmingham by car, AL.com reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Marilane Carter, 36, was last seen leaving her home at …
A Lexington, Tennessee, woman has been charged with burning a 4-year-old child with a hot clothes iron, WBBJ reports. Amanda Coffman, 41, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with aggravated child abuse, according to court documents, the station said. Coffman reportedly told police the child fell on the iron, causing a “severe burn.” But she …
The U.S. Marshals Service said they arrested three people Tuesday, months after their four dogs reportedly fatally mauled a woman in Tennessee. The agency said in a statement that Kimberly Jordan, 40, Phyllis Jones, 61, and Dedricz Perry, 22, were charged with reckless homicide in connection with Doris Arrington’s mauling death. Authorities said four “unsecured …
A Tennessee couple was charged this week with the death of a woman they lured into their home and then held there by chaining her to a bed while they raped and beat her, Oak Ridge Today reports. Sean Finnegan, 52, and Rebecca Dishman, 22, allegedly stored the mutilated body of 36-year-old Jennifer Gail Paxton …
Police in Tennessee have asked for the public’s help in locating a 13-year-old girl who reportedly vanished from her home Monday. The Knoxville Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday that Patiecents Ray Harrell left her Glenoaks Drive home sometime between 10 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. the following day. She reportedly left with …
Police in an East Tennessee town shot and killed Randall Pope, 49, Friday night, after finding his wife dead in a car outside the couple’s apartment. Morristown police officers responded to a call about a stabbing about 11:30 p.m., the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said, and found Wendy Lea Pope, 40, in a vehicle with …
Tennessee police launched an intensive search Saturday night for a 10-year-old girl reported to be in the back seat of a stolen car, only to learn the girl had been at her foster parents’s home the entire time. Randall Rhodey, 32, has been charged with auto theft, and Kayla Fox, 30 — who reported the …
A 60-year-old Texas man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 41-year-old woman whose body was found last month in a black, 50-gallon tote box floating on Kentucky Lake, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. Investigators say that Traci Leigh Jones had been producing pornography with Jeffrey Rogers and his wife, elementary …
