MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – WGNS has more details on a murder that took place in a normally peaceful neighborhood - a murder that remains under investigation. Police say the suspect allegedly murdered his wife just 6-days after his 80th birthday. The murder took place in the couples 2-story home located on Swanson Drive, which is off Rucker Lane near Highway 96 (Franklin Road) in Murfreesboro.
Rutherford County District Attorney Jennings Jones explains what police discovered when .
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The Murfreesboro Police Department Criminal Investigations Division responded to an unknown problem at a home in West Murfreesboro that ended with a homicide investigation involving a husband accused of killing his wife on Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Police charged the husband, 80-year-old Phokam Saysourinho, with first-degree murder. The MPD said that he had left the scene prior to police arriving. Police later arrested him after conducting a traffic stop in the .
(La Vergne, Tenn.) UPDATE – A murder case involving two sisters has been handed down to a Rutherford County Grand Jury. 25-Year-old Kandis Davis is accused of shooting and killing her sister Robin Taylor in LaVergne on October 6, 2022.
LaVergne Police reported that 37-year-old Taylor was unresponsive when they arrived at her home on Almondwood Place. Rutherford County Assistant District Attorney Trevor Lynch describes the circumstances of the case…
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An appeal filed by a Murfreesboro man who was convicted for killing a Lascassas resident in 2015 has once again been denied - - this time, by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
In 2015, WGNS reported on the murder of a Lascassas man who was shot and killed at Kings Crossing Apartments in Murfreesboro (1710 East Northfield Boulevard). 40-Year-old Jesse Sliepenbeek was killed by Dewey Abbott, III in Abbott’s apartment.
6-Years-ago, Abbott appeared before Rutherford County Judge David Bragg and w .
The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied an appeal filed by a man convicted of First Degree Murder in Rutherford County. The denial was filed on March 23rd and the denial was officially released on Monday (March 28, 2022).In 2016, Cassius Dominique Ivory and three other men, were arrested by Murfreesboro Police and charged in the death of 23-year-old Donte Johnson from Bartlett, Tennessee. Johnson was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of the Vie Apartments in Murfreesbor .