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Authorities said on Monday that they are investigating unidentified human remains found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. According to a release from park officials on Monday, July 8, 2019, an off-trail hiker found a human body while hiking off Laurel Creek Road and notified authorities. Searchers responded and found the unidentified human remains, which appear to be several months ...

Fans of true crime author Billy Jensen now have a chance to hear from the “consulting digital detective” in an intimate setting at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum. He’s been called the Facebook detective and a citizen sleuth and has built a solid reputation for helping to solve true crimes. For the last two decades, Billy Jensen has become a ...

The man who shot two people and then killed himself at Tanger Outlets in Sevierville was a felon prohibited from possessing a handgun and suffered from mental health issues, the investigation by Sevierville Police determined. According to police, 21-year-old Leon Steven Jones, Jr. went to the Tanger Outlet, 1645 Parkway, with his girlfriend to do some shopping on Tuesday, April ...

Murdered 25 years ago this June, Nicole Brown Simpson would have celebrated her 60th birthday on May 19, 2019. In her memory, Alcatraz East Crime Museum is turning the focus on domestic violence, offering a temporary exhibit dedicated to who Nicole was as a daughter, sister, and mother, and the devastating impact of domestic violence. The exhibit will open on May ...

A man allegedly used a gun in the robbery the Family Dollar store in Kodak on Friday, the second armed robbery of a Winfield Dunn Parkway business in two days. According to the Sevierville Police Department, a man reportedly entered the Family Dollar, located in the Food City shopping center at 2946 Winfield Dunn Parkway in Kodak, about 3:30 p.m. ...

Sevierville police are searching for a man who allegedly robbed a convenience store at gunpoint on Thursday night. Sevierville police officers responded to an armed robbery of Shell Fastop, located at 1855 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Highway 66) in Sevierville, reported just after 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, 2019. “A store employee stated that a man entered the store brandishing ...

A local man is facing charges of reckless endangerment after he allegedly rode a motorcycle on a Sevierville Greenway and nearly struck pedestrians. Sevierville police officers responded to complaints of a man riding a motorcycle on the West Prong Greenway on Monday, April 22, 2019 at about 1:41 p.m. Witnesses told police that the motorcyclist was traveling at a high ...

Four visitors from Georgia have been charged with felony theft after police responded to a shoplifting complaint and found $20,000 worth of merchandise in the suspects’ vehicle. Sevierville police officers responded to a shoplifting complaint in the area of Tanger Outlet Sevierville on Saturday, April 20, 2019. “A witness described the suspects as two black females wearing hospital scrub clothing ...

Authorities released the names of the alleged shooter and victims of Tuesday’s random shooting at Tanger Outlets Sevierville. A day of shopping at Tanger Outlets Sevierville ended in tragedy when a man randomly shot two tourists outside the Coach store and then turned the gun upon himself. The Sevierville Police Department says officers responded within minutes to Tanger Outlets Sevierville ...

A knife-wielding man was shot and killed by Pigeon Forge police after an attempt to serve an arrest warrant allegedly escalated to a fatal confrontation on Monday morning. Officers with the Pigeon Forge Police Department went to the Glenshiel apartments located at 2806 Suncrest Drive to serve an arrest warrant for 42-year-old Samuel Charles Talbott on Monday, April 15, 2019. ...