My grandmother phoned the tip line on this case. She called up and said, I quote, "We all know who did it, everyone's just too scared to say 'cause of who his daddy is." I got curious as to if it ever got solved, but I can't find the case. Here's what mom and I remember about the case, but I'm not sure how much was in the actual segment:

It happened in Kingston, TN and was a recent case when it aired (I think late '80s or early '90s). There was a girl in her late teens or early twenties who was kind of a druggie. She started hanging out with a crowd of rich kids who always had drugs on them. Eventually they killed her and stuffed her in a trash can. She was burned, but I'm not sure if that's how she died.

There's a small chance it wasn't actually "Unsolved Mysteries," but it was a show with a tip line. The segment was being aired to find out who committed the crime, so I don't think it was "America's Most Wanted." Does this ring any bells?

My grandmother phoned the tip line on this case. She called up and said, I quote, "We all know who did it, everyone's just too scared to say 'cause of who his daddy is." I got curious as to if it ever got solved, but I can't find the case. Here's what mom and I remember about the case, but I'm not sure how much was in the actual segment:

It happened in Kingston, TN and was a recent case when it aired (I think late '80s or early '90s). There was a girl in her late teens or early twenties who was kind of a druggie. She started hanging out with a crowd of rich kids who always had drugs on them. Eventually they killed her and stuffed her in a trash can. She was burned, but I'm not sure if that's how she died.

There's a small chance it wasn't actually "Unsolved Mysteries," but it was a show with a tip line. The segment was being aired to find out who committed the crime, so I don't think it was "America's Most Wanted." Does this ring any bells?

If I had seen it, I would've remembered it. I used to live in Kingston, five miles from the steam plant.

I searched the unsolved wikia, google, and did a bit of searching on City-Data and didn't find anything on this case. Hopefully someone else remembers more details and can do a better search.

The only UM murder segment that occurred in TN that I can recall where the locals were intimidated by the killer was the Signal Mountain ATV murders, which definitely doesn't sound like the case you're looking for.

My grandmother phoned the tip line on this case. She called up and said, I quote, "We all know who did it, everyone's just too scared to say 'cause of who his daddy is." I got curious as to if it ever got solved, but I can't find the case. Here's what mom and I remember about the case, but I'm not sure how much was in the actual segment:

It happened in Kingston, TN and was a recent case when it aired (I think late '80s or early '90s). There was a girl in her late teens or early twenties who was kind of a druggie. She started hanging out with a crowd of rich kids who always had drugs on them. Eventually they killed her and stuffed her in a trash can. She was burned, but I'm not sure if that's how she died.

There's a small chance it wasn't actually "Unsolved Mysteries," but it was a show with a tip line. The segment was being aired to find out who committed the crime, so I don't think it was "America's Most Wanted." Does this ring any bells?

I cannot recall an UM segment that involved someone's body being stuffed in a trash can, so I question whether it was ever on UM. However, AMW has featured a lot of "whodunit" cases in addition to fugitive cases, so there's a 50/50 chance that it was on AMW.

Oh, I didn't realize AMW had whodunnit cases. Maybe it was that, then.

Thanks for everyone's input!