Episodes

  • The real estate entrepreneur whose killing was made to look like an accident
    Aug 3 2021

    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 an accident.

    Hercutt’s sister accused their father of hiring someone to kill Shannon. Authorities, however, don’t think that’s true.

    Thousands of dollars in reward money remains available for the tip that breaks the case. The killer, however, still walks free.

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    30 mins
  • The Ivy League diplomat who murdered his family, Part 2
    Feb 3 2020

    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.

     
     

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    33 mins
  • The Ivy League diplomat who murdered his family, Part 1
    Jan 12 2020

    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.

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    25 mins
  • The vet school dean shot to death in his driveway
    Nov 24 2019

    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 killed? Almost 3 decades after he was gunned down in his own driveway, investigators are still trying to find out who is responsible for his death.

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    23 mins
  • Could you forgive your mother's killer?
    Nov 18 2019

    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 around her body, violating her with a wine bottle.

    How her family responded was remarkable. They forgive whoever committed this still-unsolved murder.

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    20 mins
  • The serial killer who got away with murder
    Nov 11 2019

    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 story of one of East Tennessee’s first serial killers – who authorities say got away with murder.

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    27 mins
  • Who killed the Doo-wop DJ?
    Nov 3 2019

    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 40 years later it’s still an unsolved killing.

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    13 mins
  • An honest man's killing, a statewide legacy
    Oct 24 2019

    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 Christmas 1949 so angered leaders they pushed for the creation of a statewide police agency.

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    25 mins