At first, it appeared real estate entrepreneur Shannon Hercutt died after her Cadillac plunged in August 2009 over a Sevier County, Tennessee cliff.Several days later, police realized she’d actually been killed and the crash made to look like

The Ivy League diplomat who murdered his family, Part 2

Feb 3rd, 2020 33m 1s

Bradford Bishop aspired to be a U.S. ambassador. Tormented by doubt, depression and money troubles, investigators believe he ended up killing his own family in a murder mystery that wound up in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Ivy League diplomat who murdered his family, Part 1

Jan 12th, 2020 24m 31s

The vet school dean shot to death in his driveway

Nov 24th, 2019 22m 43s

Early Feb. 8, 1990, Dr. Hyram Kitchen left his North Knox County home to meet colleagues for breakfast, but he never made it out of his driveway. He pushed the boundaries in veterinary medicine, but did his intense demeanor get the former dean

Could you forgive your mother's killer?

Nov 18th, 2019 19m 34s

Widow Frances Worthington, 77, lived a quiet life in her South Knoxville home. Then a killer busted in on New Year’s Eve 1995.What that person did was horrendous – wrecking her home, bludgeoning her, sprinkling coins and mini chocolates aroun

The serial killer who got away with murder

Nov 11th, 2019 26m 51s

The bodies of four women turn up at a notorious lover’s lane. The main suspect – a man on the street nicknamed “The Zoo Man.”His lawyers said one of his multiple personalities really did it. The prosecution insists that was a farce.The stor

Who killed the Doo-wop DJ?

Nov 3rd, 2019 12m 57s

Popular radio host Gus Gossert once had thousands of music fans who listened to his broadcasts of the golden oldies.Then a gunman shot him to death off a remote road in West Knox County.Was it drugs? Money? Revenge over a woman?More than

An honest man's killing, a statewide legacy

Oct 24th, 2019 25m 27s

J.T. Lutz was spending a quiet night at home with his young family when a shotgun blast shattered the window.The Greene County man had vowed to help authorities catch a thief. Somebody else thought differently.Lutz’s murder shortly before C

One sister lonely, two sisters dead

Oct 24th, 2019 22m 41s

Patricia Williams liked to go out and meet men. Older sister Suzanne was happy to stay home.One night in 1987, somebody decided they both should die.A closer look at this West Knox County case.

The socialite murdered while making a cake

Oct 24th, 2019 19m 50s

Wealthy Knoxvillian Rose Busch was home alone icing a cake when a killer knocked on her back door.Fifty years later, the murderer remains free.Bizarre clues left in the neighborhood included a gun silencer and a policeman’s uniform.Why th

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