True Crime Stories

I recently had a conversation with someone who knows someone awaiting a trial and has been assured that the person will spend significant time in prison. While I do not claim to know all of the evidence available it does sound as if the person will likely spend a few decades in jail. However, as I explained to the person nothing is certain, not even a conviction and sentence is always enough to let one's guard down. In fact, I know of a case in which a man was charged with incest of his child. He had confessed to the police at some point although later denied the charges against him. He went to trial and was convicted. He received sentence of I believe fifty years. The conviction was overturned when it was discovered that one of the investigating officers had continued to interview the man after he asked for an attorney. This is Law Enforcement 101... but it still occurs. The man got a new trial and was again convicted and sentenced to nearly fifty years. But, i...

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...