{"id":11618,"date":"2016-08-02T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:58:59","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-haslam-announces-reward-in-dover-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/08\/02\/tennessee-governor-bill-haslam-announces-reward-in-dover-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam Announces Reward in Dover Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam today announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the kidnapping and murder in 1980 of sisters Carla Atkins and Vickie Stout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe someone has information that could help solve this case, and we want whoever is responsible for this crime to be brought to justice,\u201d Haslam said. \u201cWe ask anyone with knowledge of the case to come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105761\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Haslam2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105761\" class=\"wp-image-105761 size-medium\" title=\"$5,000 offered in 1980 Stewart County kidnapping and murder of two teens was announced today by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Haslam2-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"$5,000 offered in 1980 Stewart County kidnapping and murder of two teens was announced today by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">$5,000 offered in 1980 Stewart County kidnapping and murder of two teens was announced today by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Atkins, 14, and Stout, 16, who were students at Stewart County High School, were last seen alive on September 17th, 1980, as they were walking on Highway 79 in Dover. They walked to a local market and did not return. Their bodies were recovered on October 5th, 1980, by two hikers in a remote location within Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. Both girls were killed at close range with a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, along with the Stewart County Sheriff\u2019s Department, have continued to investigate. New leads have developed in the case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently agreed to assist the TBI.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the TBI at 1.800.TBI.FIND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam today announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the kidnapping and murder in 1980 of sisters Carla Atkins and Vickie Stout. \u201cWe believe someone has information that could help solve this case, and we want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3359,11185,1897,3234,3233,11189,11187,1498,1499,3500,284,11184,11188,8424,1842,1841,3350,11186],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-bill-haslam","tag-carla-atkins","tag-dover-tn","tag-fbi","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-highway-79-hwy-79","tag-kidnapping","tag-land-between-the-lakes-national-recreation-area","tag-lbl","tag-murder","tag-nashville-tn","tag-reward","tag-stewart-county-high-school","tag-stewart-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tbi","tag-tennessee-bureau-of-investigation","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-vickie-stout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}