GUILTY TN - Kelly Sellers, 23, tortured & murdered, Sevier County, 22 April 2005

Today in Sevier County a jury deliberated for nearly eight hours in the case of John Wayne Blair. The verdict, guilty of first degree murder, for the tortured killing of his neighbor, 23-year old Kelly Sellers...

The jury found John Wayne Blair guilty, but did not sentence him to death.

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But aside from the Frog Alley days, major disturbances are, for the most part, not a common thing in Sevier County. It is, above all else, a tourist area where people come by the tens of thousands in hopes of clean mountain air, funnel cakes, and sweet sorghum (it’s like molasses— and sold on just about every roadside in the South). They have their fair share of shoot-’em-ups, meth labs, and the occasional “you-stole-my-woman” bar fights, mind you, but all in all, nothing too terribly violent tends to happen in this county. Rarely, if ever, are there any cases involving murderers who plan their kill and then bury the body. As a matter of fact, in the last twenty-five years, the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office had never had a case involving a buried body. Then, on April 23, 2005, that streak came to an abrupt end...

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