Middle Tennessee Mysteries

Michelle Willard

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Hardin County: Kristina Branum and Christopher Mittendorf

Jun 10, 2019 at 02:00 pm by Michelle Willard

Kristina "Kris" Branum and Christopher Mittendorf had been dating for around a year when they disappeared from the apartment they shared with Mittendorf's mother in Sav.... Read More

Davidson County: Livia Rose Smith

Jun 03, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Michelle Willard

The last night of Livia Smith's life was filled with the joy of youth. On Feb. 19, 2013, the 32-year-old makeup artist spent the night touring the hippest spots in East.... Read More

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

Hamilton County: Signal Mountain Murders

May 20, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Michelle Willard

Searchers knew they were on the right track when they found a patch of matted grass at the end of the tire tracks. It wasn't just how the grass had been forced and bent, but t.... Read More

Montgomery County: Crista Bramlitt

May 13, 2019 at 02:00 pm by Michelle Willard

Crista Bramlitt hadn't been living in her home for very long. Either just a few weeks or a month when she was found lifeless on the floor of her living room on Oct. 28, 1996..... Read More

Hamilton County: Johnny Mack Salyer

May 06, 2019 at 08:12 pm by Michelle Willard

On June 3, 1981, a couple found a locked 55-gallon drum floating in Chickamauga Lake near Chattanooga. Alarmed by the smell, they called the Hamilton County Sheriff's O.... Read More

Knox County: America's first serial killers The Harpe Brothers

Apr 29, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Michelle Willard

Often called America's First Serial Killers, "Big" and "Little" Harpe admitted to killing at least 28 people in East Tennessee and Kentucky. Over nine months in 1798-1799, it.... Read More

Lawrence County: Janson Brewer and Daniel 'Shawn' Braden

Apr 22, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Michelle Willard

On Aug. 16, 2016, Janson Brewer and Daniel "Shawn" Braden left Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, to travel to Florida. Along the way, they stopped at a mall in Florence, Al.... Read More

Bedford County: Redin G. Purdy and Charles Henry

Apr 15, 2019 at 05:32 pm by Michelle Willard

Shots rang out from the dark on Halloween night 1911 in Shelbyville, striking two Bedford County lawmen dead. Earlier in the afternoon deputies had arrested a man for drunken.... Read More

Sumner County: Elizabeth Diane Vaughn

Apr 08, 2019 at 03:00 pm by Michelle Willard

The months before Elizabeth Diane Vaughn went missing were turbulent. She'd had an affair with a coworker, filed for a divorce from her husband and moved into her own apartm.... Read More