Metro Cold Case Unit News Today

The Victimization of Velma Tharpe and Paul Garrett A decade after Garrett completed a prison sentence for Tharpe’s killing, another man is charged with the murder Tweet Share In late 2004, a little more than a year after a Nashville man named Paul Garrett was sent to prison for the killing of a sex worker named Velma Tharpe, police and prosecutors received a piece of information that should have set off alarms. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had run a...