Cold Cases in Tennessee
ColdCaseIndex documents 18 cold cases in Tennessee, spanning 1969–2024. 9 of these cases remain fully unsolved. Each case page includes documented details, status, and information on how to submit a tip.
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Anthony "Big Jook" Mims
Anthony "Big Jook" Mims, a 47-year-old music executive and the older brother of Memphis rapper Yo Gotti, was fatally shot on January 13, 2024, outside Perignon's Restaurant and Event Center on Winchester Road in Memphis,
Riley Strain
University of Missouri senior Riley Strain disappeared on Nashville's Broadway after being kicked out of a bar. His body was found in the Cumberland River two weeks later. His death was ruled accidental drowning.
Sebastian Rogers
Sebastian Wayne Drake Rogers, a 15-year-old boy with autism, vanished overnight from his family's home on Stafford Court in Hendersonville, Tennessee, between the night of February 25 and the morning of February 26, 2024
Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by five Memphis police officers after a traffic stop. Body camera footage showed a prolonged assault. Three officers were convicted of federal civil rights violations.
Eliza Fletcher
Teacher and heiress Eliza Fletcher was abducted while jogging near the University of Memphis and murdered. Cleotha Abston, who had a prior kidnapping conviction, was sentenced to life.
Summer Wells
Five-year-old Summer Wells vanished from her family's rural home in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Her mother said she went to play in the yard and disappeared. Despite exhaustive searches of the rugged terrain, Summer has n
Young Dolph
Memphis rapper Young Dolph (Adolph Thornton Jr.) was shot and killed while buying cookies at Makeda's Homemade Cookies. Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith were charged with his murder.
Evelyn Boswell
Fifteen-month-old Evelyn Boswell was reported missing in February 2020 but had actually been dead since December 2019. Her mother Megan Boswell was convicted of her murder.
Emma Walker
Sixteen-year-old Emma Walker was shot through her bedroom wall by her obsessive ex-boyfriend William Riley Gaul while she slept. Gaul, a high school football player, was convicted.
Joel & Lisa Guy Sr.
Joel Guy Jr. murdered his parents over Thanksgiving weekend and dismembered them, dissolving body parts in acid. He was motivated by wanting to keep receiving financial support from them.
Lauren Agee
Lauren Agee, 21, was found dead below a cliff at Center Hill Lake near Smithville, Tennessee, in July 2015. Officials ruled the death accidental, but her family disputes that finding and believes foul play was involved.
Holly Bobo
Twenty-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo was abducted near her home in Darden, Tennessee. Her remains were found four years later. Zach Adams was convicted of her murder in 2017 and sentenced to three life terms. Two o
Karen Swift
Karen Swift, a 44-year-old Dyersburg, Tennessee mother of four, vanished after a Halloween party in late October 2011 and was found beaten to death six weeks later. Her estranged husband, David Swift, was charged in 2022
Tabitha Tuders
Tabitha Danielle Tuders, 13, vanished on the morning of April 29, 2003, while walking roughly one block from her East Nashville home to her school bus stop at 14th and Boscobel Streets. She never boarded the bus, and inv
Blair Adams
Canadian construction worker Blair Adams was found murdered in a Knoxville, Tennessee parking lot after a bizarre cross-country flight from his home in Surrey, British Columbia. His erratic behavior before death and the
Cayce Lynn McDaniel
Fourteen-year-old Cayce Lynn McDaniel disappeared from Milan, Tennessee in May 1996. She was last seen near her home. Despite years of investigation and FBI involvement, she has never been found and no one has been charg
Teresa "Trenny" Lynn Gibson
Trenny Lynn Gibson, a 16-year-old Bearden High School student from Knoxville, Tennessee, vanished during a class field trip in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Clingmans Dome on October 8, 1976. Despite one o
Dennis Lloyd Martin
Dennis Lloyd Martin, a 6-year-old boy from Knoxville, Tennessee, vanished on June 14, 1969, while playing with other children at Spence Field in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during a Father's Day weekend campi