Tennessee

23,045 murders reported in Tennessee from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 81%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Murder of Holly Bobo
2011 · Decatur County, Tennessee
SingleConvicted1 victim
On April 13, 2011, Holly Bobo, a 20-year-old nursing student, was taken from her family's home in rural Decatur County, Tennessee; her brother saw her walking into the woods with a man in camouflage.
Ted Kaczynski
1978–1995 · Lincoln, Montana
SerialPleaded guilty14 victims
Between 1978 and 1995 Ted Kaczynski, a former mathematics professor living in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana, mailed or planted 16 bombs that killed three people and injured more than 20 at universities, an…
Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
2007 · Knoxville, Tennessee
SingleConvicted2 victims
On the night of January 6, 2007, Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Chris Newsom, 23, were carjacked at gunpoint in Knoxville and taken to a rented house on Chipman Street.
Paul Dennis Reid
1997 · Nashville and Clarksville, Tennessee
SerialConvicted7 victims
In the spring of 1997, Paul Dennis Reid, a Texas parolee who had moved to Nashville hoping for a country music career, killed seven fast-food workers in three robberies: two at a Captain D's in Donelson in February,…