A Tennessee man was arrested Tuesday on criminal homicide charges for allegedly fatally beating a 2-year-old boy last week. WKRN reported that Rozelle Westmoreland, 33, admitted to killing the unidentified toddler in response to the child’s whining. Nashville Metro police said Westmoreland struck the child in the head and torso before pushing him into the …
Brittany Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child neglect after she put her 8 month old baby in a freezer and closed the lid, WBIR reports. She was sentenced to two years probation; the baby survived.
Remains found in north Georgia nearly 40 years ago have been identified and linked to Samuel Little, described by the FBI as “the most prolific serial killer in US history.” The 30-year-old woman found in Dade County on September 28, 1981, was Patricia Parker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Little, 80, is a suspect …
Joel Guy Jr was found guilty Friday of the gruesome murders.
A Tennessee couple and their adult son have been indicted on child sex abuse charges after Georgia investigators tipped their Tennessee counterparts to the case. Jeffrey Wade Howell, 58; Glenda Sue Howell, 61; and Donnie Wayne Jackson, 47, were jailed last week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday. Jeffrey Howell was indicted in …
A Tennessee man set to go on trial for the murders and dismemberment of his parents is giving the court permission to impose the death penalty if he’s found guilty, despite the prosecution’s decision not to seek execution, WBIR reported. Joel Michael Guy Jr., 32, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, …
An hours-long search and chase in Middle Tennessee on Sunday ended with three people shot dead — including a husband who was executed in front of his pregnant wife. The suspect, Dangelo Dorsey, was among the dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. He shot and killed himself after leading police along Interstate 24 at …
A North Carolina man who police say hit a Black Lives Matter protester Saturday night returned to Tennessee on Monday to turn himself in, the Johnson City Police Department says. Jared Benjamin Lafer, 27, has been charged with aggravated assault in the incident, which reportedly left Jonathan Bowers in a wheelchair with two broken legs, …
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 …
