True Crime Stories

It is not uncommon for me to blog about a few cases, one right after another, that are similar in some way for a few reasons. One is that I tend to try to research at least two cases before I sit down and compose them so when one particular case seems interesting to me by the time I do the next one I am still interested in that topic. The second reason is how the cases make it to my list. There are many ways that I find the names of cases. Sometimes it is from a television show that I have watched, or a book I have heard about. Other times it may be from an article I have read online. Then there are the times I fall into one of my rabbit holes and may get on Wikipedia and look at some of the lists they compile of cases similar to each other. When that happens there will be a “block” of cases on my own list that had been discovered through one of those other lists. I would gander to guess that is how I came upon this case and the case before it. However, really the only t...

On the afternoon of February 21, 1992 James Anderson Dellinger and his nephew, Gary Wayne Sutton were at a local bar in Sevier County Tennessee. They were drinking and playing pool with Dellinger's young neighbor, Tommy Griffin.  The bartender would later say that the three men left around 7pm and that she did not notice anything odd or that any of the men seemed angry. A short while later a couple was driving down the road when they noticed a car pulled off to the side.  They observed two men outside of the car seemingly forcing another man out of the back.  They called the police. While officers were in route another person saw a man walking along the same road without a shirt in the cold February weather.  On the way to check out the report an officer conducted a traffic stop so he called another officer in to check out the first report.  When the second officer arrived he found a a pick up truck on the side of the road with two men.  The man on the b...