Henry County Correctional Officer Arrested, Charged
September 10, 2021
Paris, TN – An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the arrest of a Henry County Correctional Officer on charges of having inappropriate contact with an inmate.
At the request of 24th District Attorney General Matt Stowe, today, TBI agents began investigating a report of a Henry County Correctional Officer having inappropriate contact with a female inmate inside her cell over the last week.
Richard Wade Sanders
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation charge Douglas Talley in 2001 Paris Murder Case
November 6, 2019
Paris, TN – Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Special Agents have obtained indictments in connection to an 18-year-old homicide case.
On June 8th, 2001, the Paris Police Department responded to a home at 322 Rison Street in Paris, where investigators found Etta Etheridge (DOB: 4/6/29) inside unresponsive. Her death was ruled a homicide.
At the request of 24th District Attorney General, over the years that followed, TBI Agents and investigators from the Paris Police Department conducted an extensive joint investigation.
Douglas Talley
TBI Indicts Three People Accused of Abuse of a Corpse in Death Investigation of Henry County Woman
November 9, 2017
Jackson, TN – Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, working in cooperation with the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, and the Puryear Police Department, have obtained indictments for three individuals accused of abusing a corpse.
At the request of 24th District Attorney General Matthew Stowe, TBI Agents joined the investigation into the death of a woman identified as 20-year-old Emily Webb, found in her car July 10th along Blood River Church Road.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrests, charges Paris Tennessee Police Officer in Infant Son’s Death
September 24, 2015
Jackson, TN – Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have arrested and charged a police officer from the Paris, Tennessee Police Department in connection to the death of his infant son earlier this month.
On September 2nd, at the request of 24th District Attorney General Matthew Stowe, TBI Special Agents began investigating the cause of life-threatening injuries sustained by almost three-month-old Gunner Page at his family’s home in Puryear.
Man convicted in Kentucky Lake Fatal Accident receives his sentence
December 12, 2010
Nashville, TN – A Montgomery County man convicted earlier this fall of charges stemming from a fatal boating accident on Kentucky Lake in 2009 has received his sentence which will include jail time, probation, and community service.
David Ray Phelps, of Woodlawn, received his sentence at a hearing December 6th in Henry County Circuit Court in Paris. Phelps was found guilty of vehicular homicide, aggravated assault, reckless operation of a motor boat and boating under the influence (BUI). The verdict came after a lengthy jury trial in Henry County.
A bass boat Phelps, 37, was operating, struck a pontoon boat occupied by seven family members on July 2nd, 2009. Sandra R. Adams, 47, was killed and her daughter, Meghan Adams, 16, was seriously injured. [Read more]
