The 1987 murder of Ann Jones had several odd mentions. It happened in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee famous for tourism, shopping and Dolly Parton’s Dollywood. The killers would visit Dollywood after the slaying. A 27 year old man, named Gary June Caughron is still sitting in prison today.. but his 14-year-old girlfriend was never convicted. April Marie Ward describes the horrific crime in detail from getting groomed, to drugs to drinking the victims blood from shot glasses. New episodes out every M...

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Heather Maples was a Texas transplant to Tennessee. She moved to Murfreesboro in January of 2015 to go to MTSU. Heather moved in with her friend Chaz and got a job at their apartment complex. She and Chaz quickly became more than friends and a relationship began. Heather would complain that Chaz was abusive and always yelling. She even said there was a physical altercation and ultimately, they broke up. She stayed at the apartment mostly because she worked there, and he moved out. In the Summ...

Heather Maples

Rose was a free spirted, hitchhiker who spent most of her time with truck drivers in the 1990’s. She loved the energy she got from the open road, seeing new places and things and being free. Originally from Grand Rapids Iowa, she loved it when she found a trucker going south. In 1991 she was 32 years old and 24 weeks pregnant. Her body was found on Saturn Parkway at the off ramp for Port Royal Road in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It would take 30 days for the police to identify the body and 30 yea...

Justice After Three Decades- The Pamela Rose Aldridge McCall Story

This week’s episode of the Expired Podcast is on Bryon “Low Tax” Looper, who was a politician who legally changed his middle name to win an election. He was a dirty "public servant” and would do anything for a senate seat. Byron Looper was a democrat turned republican running against Tommy Burk. Senator Burk had been a public servant for almost 3 decades. Just before the 1978 election, Tommy was found shot in the head. His wife took his place on the ballot and won! Byron would be charged and ...

Byron "Low Tax" Looper

In February of 1992 a woman went into the Knoxville Police station, claiming she had been raped, tied up and robbed. The woman was a sex worker, and she said the night before she had met a john, and he took her into his Buick Le Sabre to a secluded area of Cahaba Lane which runs parrel with I-40. The secluded area was used by sex workers and johns. There was trash everywhere, old mattresses and used condoms all over the ground. The police officer asked the woman to take him there and when the...

Zoo Man / Thomas Dee Huskey

Paul Dennis Reid was a troubled kid and as an adult he continued his behavior robbing restaurants and stores. By his mid 20's he had been in a car accident resulting in a $25,000 pay out. He took that money, got plastic surgery and moved to Nashville, Tennessee to be a country music singer. When that didn't work out for him, he started robbing restaurants again. Paul hit Captain D's, McDonald's and Baskin Robbin within a few months in 1997 resulting in 7 murders and one attempted murder. Paul...

The Shot Glass Killer

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