Posted on 10/15/2014 12:19:30 PM PDT by JennysCool
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
The man who killed "Hee Haw" star and Grand Ole Opry performer David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, four decades ago has been granted parole.
Melissa McDonald with the Tennessee Board of Parole told News 2 the board voted Wednesday morning to grant John Brown parole.
Brown has served 40 years of his 198-year sentence for killing the Akemans in 1973 as they returned to their home following a performance at the Opry.
(Excerpt) Read more at wkrn.com ...
There are many old homes around the country where large sums of money or valuables are hidden. One old home in my hometown of La Crosse, Wis. that was in the process of being torn down had thousands of dollars worth of very old, silver dollars fixed to the insides of the walls. I never did find out who profited from all that silver.
Yep. and that “common knowledge” eventually got him killed.
Yeah. My wife (from Philly) doesn’t understand why I (from Texas) want to walk through the lumber section when we go to a home improvement store. The smell of lumber is sweet to me. Not to mention fresh cut grass.
She said she likes the smell of gasoline and exhaust fumes! No wonder she likes Houston more than I do.
He has served forty years and, according to the article posted above on this thread, he “is incarcerated in a Tennessee Special Needs Facility.” That means he is either disabled, dying or, at best, or extremely sick. So releasing him on parole is not going to endanger the public, and is going to save the taxpayers a boatload of money in providing him free medical care.
I had to read that headline three times before figuring out what the “writer” intended to say. Remember that these errors get past editors who are just as stupid!
Press one for English!
Sad state of our beautiful language, on display again.
Coupla fellas ought to pay him a visit or two. Just to check in on him a little. See how he keeps his temper these days.
Criminally insane should be put to death.
Yeah, me too. OTOH, "Stringbean's Murderer Granted Parole" might not have been a whole lot better...
Imagine having one channel when you're a young kid. You watch whatever programs are on the one channel. My parents had Welk on every Saturday evening. In the bitterly cold winters of Wisconsin in the fifties and early sixties, polka music Saturday afternoon and Welk at night. Believe me, that got tiresome real quickly.
I live near where this double murder happened.
Read a couple yrs. ago it was many yrs before
String beans money was found behind a rock
In the chimney. The money was rotten after so
many yrs.
Dam shame this killer is getting out.
I agree.
He owned one of Uncle Dave Macon’s banjos. Would have been worth more all the money in the house.
It folks like “Stringbean’’ and his wife that make/made America once. Now....
And once again we're proven right.
Good people are dead, and never get a reprieve.
Vicious killers get sympathy and a parole.
The same people who promised this guy would never get out, fought to get him out. Count on it!
Thanks
never forget listening to Roy Clark play laura’s theme or theme from doc chivago on the guitar. the man was great.
I remember it well. I was stationed at Fort Campbell, KY, just above Nashville and got up one morning and it was all over the news in the Nashville TV stations. I think it was his old friend, also of Hee Haw fame, Grand Paw Jones who found them in the yard, if I remember right. Been a very long time, but I think that is who found them.
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