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Cold Cases in Knoxville, Tennessee

ColdCaseIndex documents 3 cases in Knoxville, Tennessee, dated 1996 to 2016. 1 is recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Blair Adams (1996) and the most recent is Emma Walker (2016).

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Status of the 3 cases
  • Unsolved 1 (33%)
  • Solved or convicted 2 (67%)

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Conviction 2016

Emma Walker

Sixteen-year-old Emma Walker was fatally shot in her bed at her family's Knoxville, Tennessee, home on November 21, 2016, by shots fired through her bedroom wall from outside.

Knoxville Homicide Age 16
Conviction 2016

Joel & Lisa Guy Sr.

Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55, were stabbed to death and dismembered at their home in west Knox County, Tennessee, over Thanksgiving weekend 2016.

Knoxville Homicide
Unsolved 1996

Blair Adams

Robert Dennis Blair Adams, a 31-year-old construction foreman from Surrey, British Columbia, was found beaten to death on July 11, 1996, in the lot of an unfinished motel off Interstate 40 in east Knox County, Tennessee.

Knoxville Homicide Age 31

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