Tennessee

Covers Christa Pike's death sentence and the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer near the University of Tennessee campus.

The Steve McNair case is a solved 2009 murder-suicide in which NFL quarterback Steve McNair was shot and killed by his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi in Nashville, Tennessee.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is a 1968 American murder case in which civil rights leader King was shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis by fugitive James Earl Ray.

Ghost City Tours leads adults through Nashville's murderous past — mobsters, mayhem, and haunted landmarks — on a 90-minute night walking tour.

In July 1925, high school teacher John Scopes stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for the crime of teaching human evolution. The case became a watershed moment in American law, pitting religious fundamentalism against scientific education and raising questions about state power over classroom instruction that persist today.

In 2022, Netflix released Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives., a four-part documentary about Sarma Melngailis, former owner of NYC's Pure Food and Wine, and the $1.6 million fraud that destroyed her restaurant. But Melngailis disputes the narrative, claiming the series misrepresents her involvement in the crime.