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UPDATE on Local Murder Case in Rutherford County Dec 28, 2020 at 11:23 am by WGNS
(MURFREESBORO) Rutherford County Sheriff’s detectives investigated the death of Erick Bixler who was found deceased on July 26, 2020. Bixler was found dead at his home on Asbury Lane.
The case has been bound over to a Grand Jury, as stated by Rutherford County District Attorney Jennings Jones.
Sheriff s Criminal Investigations Division Lt. Todd Sparks said, The 45-year old man was the apparent victim of a murder.
Sparks said the preliminary investigation indicated Bixler was targeted, The Detective stated, “We don’t feel like this was a random situation.”
Estranged husband charged in wife s murder in Rutherford County Dec 29, 2020 at 09:45 am by WGNS
An estranged husband was charged with murdering his wife after her body was found in a ditch Monday morning near her Midland community home, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s lieutenant said.
WGNS Ron Jordan has the story.
Detective Joseph Duncan charged husband Juan Francisco Lugo, 41, of Floyd Avenue in Murfreesboro with killing his wife, Brecka Nicole Lugo, 29, of New Zion Road, said Lt. Todd Sparks of the Criminal Investigations Division.
Brecka Lugo’s parents found her missing and her two small children alone at their home Monday morning, Sparks said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mike Osborne) A woman’s body was found in a Rutherford County ditch Monday, and authorities have arrested a Murfreesboro man in connection with her death.
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office says the parents of Brecka Lugo found the 29-year-old woman missing and her two small children alone in their New Zion Road home early Monday morning.
Her body was found minutes later in a ditch along Oak Grove Road, three miles southwest of Murfreesboro. Evidence at the scene suggested homicide.
Investigators say they quickly developed Brecka Lugo’s estranged husband as a suspect in her death. Deputies arrested Juan Lugo a short time later on I-24.