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Carla Atkins
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Dover
State: Tennessee
County: Stewart County
Date of death: September 17, 1980
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian/White
Cause of death: Gun Firearm
Anniversary month: September
LEA: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Nashville, Tennessee
Case Description
Investigators say 14-year-old Carla Atkins and her 16-year-old half-sister Vickie Stout went to a store called "The Furnace" on September 17, 1980, where witnesses say they saw the girls talking to someone in a blue pickup truck, and the truck circled the highway by that store. On October 5, 1980, hikers smelled an odor in an area called Land Between the Lakes. That’s when they contacted the sheriff’s department, where deputies saw the girls’ bodies.
Anyone with information in the case is urged to contact the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.
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