CLINTON, Tenn. — A jury has found Jason Robert Dockery guilty on all charges, including first-degree murder, in the 2023 killing of Shysti Mayberry following a two-week trial in Anderson County. According to the Seventh Judicial District Attorney General’s Office, the case began on Sept. 12, 2023, when deputies with …
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Law enforcement officials from the Roane County Sheriff’s Department, including detectives and agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), responded to a residence on Laurel Bluff Road south of Kingston late last night following reports of a fatal shooting. According to Chief Deputy Tim Phillips, the incident occurred just …
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ROANE COUNTY – An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Roane County Sheriff’s Office, and the Office of the 9th Judicial District Attorney General has resulted in the arrest of an Athens woman, charged with murder in the death of her mother. On April 20th, the Roane …
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According to the Roane County News, the trial of Lonnie Dale Wright, accused of murdering two individuals in May 2022, has commenced in Roane County. Wright stands accused of the brutal killings of Steven Groover and Cindy Scruggs, whose bodies were discovered with multiple stab wounds in a residence on …
Read More »After a three-day long trial that began on Tuesday at the Morgan County Courthouse, a Morgan County Jury returned a verdict late Thursday evening in the case involving the October 28, 2016, shooting death of Ellis Ray Hamby by his girlfriend, Tonya Baughman. The jury of six (6) men and …
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According to 9th District Attorney General Russell Johnson, charges have been filed against a woman in the death of a 4-year-old after a handgun discharged killing the child at a residence in Rockwood on Sunday. Brianna G Devall Runions is charged with first-degree murder and remains in jail on a …
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Clinton, Tennessee – Today, Christy Comer, age 41, plead guilty to the murder of J.C. Copeland in the Anderson County Criminal Court and was remanded to the custody of the Tennessee Department of Corrections. J.C. Copeland was an 83-year-old man who resided in the City of Rocky Top. In the …
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After more than a year of investigation, MNPD Homicide-Cold Case detectives this morning arrested Caleb J. Cannon of Anderson County for the May 2014 murder of Nashvillian Nichole Burgess. Cannon, 34, was formally named a person of interest in this death investigation in Anderson County search warrants granted in June …
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