Episode Summary
A summer joyride turns deadly when three men are viciously gunned down in the hills of southern Tennessee.
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Episode Info
Kenneth Griffith, Earl Smock and Richard Mason
Earl Smock, Kenneth Griffith, Richard Mason (on the left) and Frank Casteel (far right)
Map of important places in this case
Episode Source Material
- The Daily News-Journal: Officials seek 3 missing men, by Associated Press
- Kingsport Times-News: Search intensifies for 3 missing men, by Associated Press
- The Jackson Sun: Police: Missing men may have been shot, by Associated Press
- Kingsport Times-News: Authorities have little hope of finding missing men alive, by Associated Press
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Three Bodies Found, Examined By Officials, by Associated Press
- Kingsport Times-News: Bodies found probably those of 3 missing men, by Associated Press
- Kingsport Times-News: Authorities say arrests may be near in slayings, by Dan George
- The Tennessean: Woods look dark after 3 slayings, by Associated Press
- The Tennessean: Murder probe yields clues to 2nd mystery, by Mike Moser
- The Jackson Sun: McWherter authorizes reward in three-wheeler murders, by Associated Press
- The Tennessean: Crime Stoppers offers up to $1,000 for information in killing of 3 men, by Associated Press
- Kingsport Times- News: TV’s ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ to probe mountain deaths, by Associated Press
- WDEF News 12: Signal Mountain Murders
- Unsolved Mysteries: Season 2 Episode 13
- Johnson City Press: TV program fetches tips on slayings, by Associated Press
- Kingsport Times-News: Investigator to probe Signal Mountain Slayings, by Associated Press
- The Tennessean: DNA Technology, FBI help solve Signal Mountain slayings, by Associated Press
- The Tennessean: Man won’t face death penalty in killing of 3 on three-wheelers
- Johnson City Press: Witnesses place suspect at scene, prosecutors say, by Associated Press
- The Jackson Sun: Trial date set for triple murder suspect, by wire reports
- The Jackson Sun: Alleged killer’s trial may get a change of venue, by Associated Press
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Signal Mountain ATV murder suspect seeks change of venue
- The Jackson Sun: Slaying suspect’s jury from elsewhere, by Associated Press
- The Daily News-Journal: Signal Mountain man on trial in triple killing, by Associated Press
- Johnson City Press: Trial under way in decade-old killings on Signal Mountain, by Rachel Zoll
- The Jackson Sun: Ex-mistress testifies in murder trial, by Associated Press
- Johnson City Press: Ex-mistress says she cooperated to learn truth about murders, by Associated Press
- Rome News-Tribune: Casteel claims persecution by police in murder case, by Associated Press
- The Jackson Sun: Suspect convicted in triple murder, by Associated Press
- Johnson City Press: Guilty verdict brings no end to pain of loss, by Associated Press
- State vs. Frankie E. Casteel, E1999-00076-CCA-R3-CD
- Johnson City Press: Court overturns Signal Mountain decision, by Jason Strait
- The Tennessean: New trial order spurs appeal by gunman’s attorneys, by Associated Press
- A&E: City Confidential, Season 3, Ep. 10, Chattanooga: Dangerous Trespassing
- The Tennessean: Retrial date set for man accused of triple slaying, by Bill Poovey
- The Jackson Sun: Defendant seeks new judge in triple murder, by Associated Press
- The Jackson Sun: Judge recuses self in triple murder retrial, by Associated Press
- The Daily News-Journal: Retrial set for Signal Mountain ATV murders, by Associated Press
- Johnson City Press: Retrial jury to come from Knoxville, compiled from wire reports
- Johnson City Press: Retrial in 14-year-old killings to start, by Associated Press
- Johnson City Press: Jury hears evidence in trial of man accused of killing ATV riders in 1988, by Associated Press
- The Chattanoogan: Casteel Wife Says He Did Not Commit Murders, by Rob York
- Johnson City Press: Witness surprises prosecutors at trial, by Associated Press
- Johnson City Press: Man convicted second time in murders, by Associated Press
- STATE OF TENNESSEE v. FRANKIE E. CASTEEL. No. E2003-01563-CCA-R3-CD
- The Jackson Sun: Hearing in motion for third murder trial, by Associated Press
- FRANKIE E. CASTEEL v. STATE OF TENNESSEE. No. E2008-01526-CCA-R3-PC
- Bloodlands: Signal Mountain Murders
- News Channel 9: “It is finally over”: Frank Casteel, convicted of 1988 ATV murders, dies in prison, by WTVC
- The Chattanoogan: Son of Frank Casteel Writes Book About Signal Mountain Murders
- The Chattanoogan: 30th Anniversary Of Signal Mountain Murders, by William Watts
