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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:17 PM Apr 2021

A massive breakdown in the system': Tennessee has failed to collect DNA from 76K violent offenders

KNOXVILLE — After the brutal murder of their 21-year-old daughter in 2004—and in the years that followed without an arrest—Joan and Mike Berry channelled their grief, and their rage, into a fight for stronger victim protections.

Johnia Berry was stabbed more than 20 times by a home intruder six weeks after she moved to west Knoxville to attend graduate school at the University of Tennessee.

She was found in the hallway of her apartment building after pounding on neighbors’ doors for help in the middle of the night. No one answered.

The only evidence investigators recovered was a partial fingerprint and drops of a stranger’s blood on the knife wielded by her killer.

Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2021/04/15/a-massive-breakdown-in-the-system-tennessee-has-failed-to-collect-dna-from-76000-violent-offenders/

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A massive breakdown in the system': Tennessee has failed to collect DNA from 76K violent offenders (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2021 OP
DAMN! Backward state. 😠 Duppers Apr 2021 #1
But they try to woo people to move there by advertising no state income tax Ziggysmom Apr 2021 #2
Truly shocking. Tanuki May 2021 #3

Duppers

(28,246 posts)
1. DAMN! Backward state. 😠
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 12:50 AM
Apr 2021

Those poor grieving parents.


Just got an email from one of my future neighbors (we're moving back) complaining about the state's lack of mandates & folks ignoring all precautions re: covid. But "freedom."


Ziggysmom

(3,574 posts)
2. But they try to woo people to move there by advertising no state income tax
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 04:47 AM
Apr 2021

No decent service in this example.

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