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Tina Stewart

Rutherford County: Clantina 'Tina' Stewart

Jul 07, 2020 at 02:54 pm by Michelle Willard

  The MTSU women's basketball team was preparing for their year-end conference tournament in 2011 when a dispute between a player and her roommate turned deadly. Clanti.... Read More
Melissa Atkin was murdered in Rutherford County.

Rutherford County: Melissa Atkin

Feb 17, 2020 at 04:00 pm by Michelle Willard

After Melissa Atkin was killed, her young son Lucas was left without a parent. His grandparents, Melissa's parents, stepped up and took him in.  Melissa's murder was sol.... Read More
Gordon Kent was killed in Rutherford County in 1996.

Rutherford County: Gordon Kent

Jan 20, 2020 at 06:48 pm by Michelle Willard

Just a few days before his death, Gordon Kent buried his 97-year-old mother. Minnie Kent of Nashville had died of pneumonia in February 1996, and her son stood to inherit a.... Read More
Devin Bond

Rutherford County: Devin Bond - Resolved

Nov 19, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Michelle Willard

On the morning of March 31, 2017, Devin Bond's little brother walked into his room to see why his brother wasn't up yet.  Instead of finding the 16-year-old sleepin.... Read More
Willie M. Jakes from Rutherford County

Rutherford County: Willie M. Jakes

Oct 14, 2019 at 03:00 pm by Michelle Willard

Just four days before Christmas 1982, a rural Rutherford County home was the scene of a brutal murder. Willie M. Jakes, 74, was found bludgeoned to death after phone calls to.... Read More
Unsolved murder of Stanley Smith

Rutherford County: Stanley Smith

Jul 15, 2019 at 03:22 pm by Michelle Willard

Two Murfreesboro hikers were walking along Van Cleve Lane in Murfreesboro when they made a grisly discovery on Friday afternoon, March 25, 1977. The hikers had just passed an.... Read More
Rutherford County: China Videon

Rutherford County: China Videon

May 26, 2019 at 02:00 pm by Michelle Willard

When Suzanne Videon got to her Christiana, Tennessee, home around 7:50 p.m. Oct. 19, 1999, oddly, her daughter's car wasn't waiting for her in the driveway. "I knew something.... Read More
Analyce Guerra

Rutherford County: Analyce Guerra

Apr 01, 2019 at 02:00 pm by Michelle Willard

The last time Analyce Guerra's mother saw her, the 28-month-old was asleep in front of the TV in her family's apartment on Nissan Drive in Smyrna. It was 11:30 p.m. Sunday, A.... Read More
Christi and Bobby Baskin

Rutherford County: Christi and Bobby Baskin

Feb 18, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Michelle Willard

Satanic Panic came to Murfreesboro in 1989. Marvin and Sandra Maple accused their daughter Debbie Baskin of worshiping the Devil and offering her two oldest children &nd.... Read More
Russell C. Jones

Rutherford County: Russell C. Jones

Jan 21, 2019 at 01:00 pm by Michelle Willard

One of Murfreesboro's most infamous and strange murders happened in 1984. Full of bizarre plots and involving one of the city's most prominent families, the disappearanc.... Read More