Topic: Felony Murder

One of Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Coty Holmes, Captured in Florida

April 16, 2013 |

Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation removed a wanted fugitive from the state’s Top Ten Most Wanted list today after the U.S. Marshals Service captured him in Fort Walton, Florida this afternoon.

Coty Keith Holmes (left in photo), of 197 Rhoads Lane, Hillsboro, TN, was wanted by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and TBI for one count of first degree murder and one count of felony murder for the beating death of 26-year-old Corey Nathanial Matthews.

Coty Holmes (left) was captured in Florida. David Jenkins (right) is still at large and wanted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

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U.S. v. Brent Burke General Court Martial date set

April 20, 2012 |

Fort Campbell, KY – A trial date is set for May 1st, 2012 in the case of U.S. v. Sgt. Brent Burke.

Burke is charged with two counts of premeditated murder; one count of felony murder; one count of breaking and entering; three counts of child endangerment; and one count of obstructing justice/impeding an investigation. «Read the rest of this article»

Mother Extradited and Indicted in Child’s Death

February 17, 2012 |

Clarksville, TN – Caitlyn Leanore Metz was indicted on Two Counts of 1st Degree Felony Murder, Two Counts of Aggravated Child Abuse, and Aggravated Rape of a Child in the 2009 death of her child, Keegan Andrew Metz, and is being held on a $100,000 Bond.

She was picked up in Josephine Oregon, February 11th, extradited and booked into Montgomery County Jail, February 16th.

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TBI puts Lebanon Man on State’s Most Wanted List

June 25, 2011 |

Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation today put a Lebanon man wanted for murder on the State’s Top Ten Most Wanted list in an effort to locate him and take him into custody. A reward is being offered to anyone who contacts law enforcement with information leading to the whereabouts of Orlando Kajun Steverson.

Steverson, 28, last known address 514 Leeville Pike, Lebanon, Tennessee, is wanted by the Lebanon Police Department for one count of first degree murder and one count of felony murder in attempt to perpetrate a robbery. In 2007, Steverson and two other suspects were involved in a confrontation with gang members at Les’s Lounge on Blue Bird Road in Lebanon and a firearm was discharged.

Orlando Kajun Steverson

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Clarksville’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Captured

May 20, 2011 |

Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, along with the U.S. Marshals and Clarksville Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit, captured one of the state’s Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives after negotiating his surrender from a Clarksville residence around noon yesterday.

He was the third and final suspect still at large for a 2010 Clarksville murder.

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TBI makes arrest in Monroe County homicide case

January 5, 2011 |

Chattanooga, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Monroe County woman after she was indicted by the Monroe County Grand Jury this morning on murder charges related to the homicide of Monroe County Election Commission Chairman Jim Miller this past summer.

The TBI along with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the Madisonville Police Department, the Sweetwater Police Department and state Bomb and Arson investigators all contributed to the nearly six month long investigation. «Read the rest of this article»

Clarksville Man added to Tennessee’s Most Wanted List

January 5, 2011 |

Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation today added a Clarksville, TN man wanted for several violent felonies to its list of Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives in an effort to apprehend him as the third and final suspect in a 2010 murder.

Cornel Lemar Oliver, 19, last known address 300 Randell Drive, Clarksville, Tennessee, is wanted by the Clarksville Police Department on felony murder, especially aggravated kidnapping and attempted aggravated robbery charges.

Crime scene area.

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Two Charged In Homicide on Elder Street

November 4, 2010 |

Clarksville, TN – Two men have been charged in the death of Raymond Alton Caston, 30, of Clarksville which occurred on October 27th, 2010 in area of Washington Street and Elder Street.

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Guilty Verdict returned on 1995 Montgomery County Murder Case

October 20, 2010 |

Nashville, TN – A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge has returned a guilty verdict on a Madison, TN woman who was one of the main suspects in a 1995 cold case the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation indicted and arrested for murder in 2008.

Yesterday, Lajeanra Yvette Polk, 47, was convicted of one count of felony murder and one count of second degree murder for the 1995 death of 33-year-old Carolyn “Tina” Vega-Velasquez.

Lajeanra Yvette Polk

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Two indicted for 1992 Murder-For-Hire

August 9, 2010 |

Nashville, TN — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has arrested two additional suspects involved in a 1992 murder-for-hire case in Lawrence County, TN after new information was presented to the Lawrence County Grand Jury and indictments were returned on several charges, including murder.

Phillip Rigling, 74, of 341 Jackson Avenue, Lawrenceburg, TN, was indicted on one count of criminal responsibility to wit first degree murder, felony murder and aggravated robbery. Curtis Staggs, 46, of Fredericktown, MO, was indicted on one count of first degree murder, one count of felony murder and one count of aggravated robbery.

Phillip Rigling

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