UPDATE 8/5/25: Richard Carper has been located and is safe. Original Story: A TBI Silver Alert has been issued on behalf of the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office for 70 year-old Richard Carper. He was last seen yesterday (Monday) in Sevierville wearing a black shirt, light blue jeans, black tennis shoes, carrying a small black bag.…… MORE
The suspect of the quadruple homicide, Austin Drummond is caught on camera. Officials with the Jackson Police Department say he was caught on a citizen’s camera system in the 700 block of Pipkin Road on Sunday night. JPD says Drummond is considered armed and dangerous and urging area residents to use extra caution coming and…… MORE
Madison County, TN (WOKI) TBI UPDATE 8/4/25: The search for the man wanted in connection to the quadruple murder in West Tennessee continues, and now a third person is charged in connection to the case. TBI agents Monday morning arrested 23-year-old Dearrah Sanders of Jackson after investigators determined she assisted Austin Drummond following the murders…… MORE
Overton County, TN (WOKI) A joint investigation is underway after a body is found Thursday in a burning refrigerator on the side of a road in Middle Tennessee. Officials with the Overton County Sheriff’s Office say deputies responded to a report of a refrigerator on fire on the side of Sunk Cane Road in the…… MORE
LAKE COUNTY, TN (WMC – Story Courtesy of WVLT) – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says one or more suspects are being sought after the overnight discovery of four bodies in Northwest Tennessee, which has since been connected to an abandoned infant case. According to Danny Goodman, Dyer and Lake County District Attorney, this act was…… MORE
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has put out a new missing person flyer out for Sebastian Rodgers. He’s the teen who vanished more than a year ago in Sumner County, in Middle Tennessee. TBI say the missing 15-year-old has autism. He was last seen at his Hendersonville home in February of 2024. A $50,000 reward…… MORE
Morgan County, TN (WOKI / WVLT) A Morgan County deputy has been charged in connection to a deadly officer-involved shooting. Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation say deputies with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office went to a burglary call at a home on Ray Cross Road in Harriman on May 2 wherein Deputy Charles…… MORE
WASHINGTON COUNTY – A joint investigation by special agents with TBI’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Squad and the Newport Police Department in New Hampshire has resulted in the arrest of a Johnson City man. Last month, detectives in Newport, New Hampshire, received information that a minor was sending child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to an…… MORE
GEORGETOWN– Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agents specializing in fire investigations, working alongside the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office, have arrested and charged a Georgetown man in connection with an arson investigation. On June 15, 2023, agents began investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a detached garage at a home in the 3000 block of Sugar…… MORE
JOHNSON COUNTY – An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Medicaid Fraud Control Division and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office has resulted in the arrest of the owner of an assisted living facility. In June 2024, after receiving a referral from Adult Protective Services, TBI special agents began investigating allegations involving Wendy…… MORE
