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Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
45 minutes
English
United States
19 episodes
since Dec. 10, 2025
episodic
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A Knoxville woman with a history of drug addiction and homelessness thought she found a haven when Sean Finnegan and his girlfriend, Rebecca Dishman, opened up their Oak Ridge home to her in late 2019. It was anything but.
Eight months later, police found Jennifer Paxton's body under a bed in the…
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In March 1993, a historic blizzard hit East Tennessee. In this Behind The Headline, Robin sits down with Todd Howell and Gene Patterson to recall the event.
In 1985, a Knoxville family trusted a man they knew to watch their 7-year-old daughter for a short time. That would end in a horrifying crime that called for the death penalty. In this episode of Behind the Headline, we revisit the murder of young Paula Dyer, the decades-long legal fight that follo…
Just days after Thanksgiving 2016, officers doing a wellness check made a gruesome discovery inside a home in a quiet West Knox County neighborhood. A couple was found dead and dismembered. Investigators said what they found inside that "house of horrors" was unlike anything they'd ever seen.
In 1986, a series of grisly discoveries across Knoxville shook the city.
Body parts, placed in bags and suitcases, were discovered in different parts of the area. At Mead's Quarry in South Knoxville, a man stumbled across what he thought was part of a mannequin in a trash pile. He soon realized i…
Before she became a headline, Kassi Trimmier was a 3-year-old child whose disappearance shattered her family and stunned the Knoxville community. In 1992, she disappeared under circumstances that immediately raised alarm. It left her family desperate for answers and the community on edge.
On this …
Former medical examiner Dr. Randall Pedigo's actions made him the center of a criminal case in the mid-1990s that exposed sexual assault, led to a violent shooting at his home, the collapse of a long medical career and a courtroom reckoning.
We walk through the timeline, from the first allegation…
In 2007, a 911 call from a North Knoxville home set in motion a case that would grip East Tennessee and raise questions about love, betrayal and violence. What began as a complicated love triangle involving husband and wife Eric and Erin McLean ended in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Shawn Powel…
The Nov. 2016 murder of 16-year-old Emma Walker stunned East Tennessee and drew national attention. In this episode of Behind the Headline, we go beyond the interviews and video to hear from the journalists who covered this story over several years.
On Dec. 4, 1989, three bank robbers holed up in a home on Inskip Drive, and gunshots started flying. Hear from photojournalists and reporters who braved real danger.
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