KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — In Knox County, a total of 24 homicides between 1976-2006 are still unsolved, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
KCSO’s website has a list of ongoing homicide investigations which are led by the Cold Case Unit. Nearly every case includes a photo of the person who was killed with details of their deaths.
The unsolved homicides listed on KCSO’s website are:
Robert “Gus” Gossert – August 10, 1976 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Paul Hurst – November 29, 1977 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Joseph Weir – November 29, 1981 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Howard Harding – January 12,1982 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Sharon Yvonne Robinson – August 9, 2984 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Betty Joyce Brown – July 20, 1985 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Sisters Suzanne Williams and Patricia Williams – December 29, 1987 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Jamie D. Hickman – April 1, 1989 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Mary Francis Holt – November 26, 1989 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Hyram Kitchen – February 8, 1990 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Jackie Cardwell – February 1, 1991 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Pauline George – March 7, 1991 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Charles McGhee – June 14, 1992 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Debra Murray Owens – May 13, 1994 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Michael Gerald King, Jr. – January 8, 1995 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Tangela Yvette Moore – February 11, 1995 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Robert Dennis Blair Adams – July 11, 1996 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Robert Kilgore – May 24, 2004 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office) 
Ricky Tipton Thompson – September 4, 2006 (Knox County Sheriff’s Office)
Others listed who pictures are not provided for include:
- James Floyd Fox, Sr. – June 11, 1980
- Calvin R. Shafer – Oct. 7, 1983
- Ward Adcock – Oct. 19, 1987
- Ruth Eileen Meredith – July 3, 1991
- Dennis Gray Miller – April 20, 1994
KCSO said the Cold Case Investigation Unit was established in 2008.
Investigators in the unit reexamine case files, re-interview witnesses and suspects, and reprocess old evidence by applying modern innovative technology in unsolved homicides, the sheriff’s office said.
