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Law enforcement officials have announced that a former Tennessee governor’s administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state’s largest political scandal
A former Tennessee governor's administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state's largest political scandal, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
Officials say ousted Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton's administration helped pay for the execution style murder of a key federal witness decades ago.
Jun. 9—Hamilton County District Attorney's cold case unit says it has solved part of a 42-year-old murder case that was tied up in a former Tennessee governor's scandal. On Wednesday morning, District Attorney Neal Pinkston said at a news conference that William Edward Alley shot and killed Samuel Pettyjohn in 1979. Alley died in federal prison in 2005. He was serving time for bank robbery. In ...
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