Tennessee authorities say a cold-case investigation reveals that a sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about an organized crime-busting law enforcement officer actually killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was killed by his enemies.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s yard.

Police in Tennessee have arrested the man wanted for the killings of an infant’s parents, grandmother and uncle.

Police in Tennessee have charged a 23-year-old woman with assisting a man wanted in the killings of four people.

Tennessee authorities have arrested two men they say are connected to the case of four murdered family members who were related to an abandoned infant.

Authorities are searching for the man wanted for the murder of four family members in Tennessee.

The manhunt, which generated more than 430 tips and involved at least 400 law enforcement personnel from multiple agencies, came to an end only 10 miles from the prison. Closing in on the suspectRausch said hundreds of law enforcement officials flooded the area and Watson had nowhere to go. The officers that took him into custody were two women from the Tennessee Department of Corrections. He said Johnson's body received a law enforcement escort from Memphis to the funeral home in Nashville and that there are more plans to honor her. Johnson began her career with the Tennessee Department of Corrections in 1981 and served in multiple positions including as an officer and warden.