TN- The Lillelid Murders, Greene County, April 6, 1997

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A particularly heinous murder of a young family that captured worldwide attention at the time, happened here in Greeneville. Twenty years ago today.
In the ensuing years since trials and punishments were handed down, alll of the six convicted murderers have asked for sentence reductions. The youngest defendant, 14 at the time of the crime, had his sentence reduced to 51 years. Currently, Karen Howell has an upcoming hearing on a request for sentence reduction. She was 17 in 1997.
I was not sure which forum to post this in but I believe the Lillelids deserve to be remembered on websleuths.
 
I knew and grew up with Jason's family. His dad committed suicide. I am so thankful to this Judge!

A judge denied a motion to reopen sentencing for a defendant in a 20-year-old triple slaying in East Tennessee.

Media report Greene County Criminal Court Judge Alex Pearson rejected the motion from attorneys for Karen Howell, who was 17 when she pleaded guilty in 1998 to the roadside slayings of a mother, father and daughter in East Tennessee. She was sentenced to life without parole.

Howell's attorneys cited recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions dealing with juvenile sentences in a motion asking for her sentence to be reconsidered.

http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Ju...tencing-in-1997-triple-slaying-420127283.html
 
http://www.greenevillesun.com/news/...cle_923a20e8-59ac-532a-b660-9d56e250aa42.html

A particularly heinous murder of a young family that captured worldwide attention at the time, happened here in Greeneville. Twenty years ago today.
In the ensuing years since trials and punishments were handed down, alll of the six convicted murderers have asked for sentence reductions. The youngest defendant, 14 at the time of the crime, had his sentence reduced to 51 years. Currently, Karen Howell has an upcoming hearing on a request for sentence reduction. She was 17 in 1997.
I was not sure which forum to post this in but I believe the Lillelids deserve to be remembered on websleuths.

Thank you for starting this thread. Jason Bryant was the 14 year old. His dad, a good man, committed suicide. :(
 
Lived here my whole life and never heard of this.
I'm going to dig into it tonight when the little one goes to bed.

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Bill to grant parole for killer kids stalls in Tennessee House in shadow of Lillelid murders (with clip)

March 17, 2018

"A bill that would have given a chance at parole to teenagers convicted of murder — including two of the killers of East Tennessee's Lillelid family — could be done for the year in the state House.

The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, wouldn't have guaranteed parole in such cases. But it would have made parole hearings automatic after 30 years for any juvenile defendant tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison — even in sentences of life without parole....

The long shadow of the Lillelid case

Armstrong's district includes Greene County, where teenagers Karen Renee Howell and Jason Blake Bryant pleaded guilty 20 years ago to helping gun down a family of four on the side of a country road and leaving them for dead. Both remain in prison, sentenced to life without parole.

"Under this bill, they could be out in another 10 years," Armstrong said...."

http://ux.tennessean.com/story/news...ssee-house-shadow-lillelid-murders/432337002/
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The Lillelid Killers, A Closer Look

"THIS DOCUMENTARY AIRED IN 1998. IT EXPLORES HOW DOES A GROUP OF BORED TEENAGERS IN A SMALL TOWN BECAME A GROUP OF KILLERS."

[video=youtube;3qDOVre8Jc8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qDOVre8Jc8[/video]
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Link: http://blogitude.com/uploads/1998/03/family1-mc2.jpg

(Vidar and Delfina Lillelid of Powell, Tenn., are shown in an undated family photo with their children, Tabitha and Peter. [Photo: Submitted by family])
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Update:

Tenn. Supreme Court clarification could lead to parole for Lillelid murderers (with clip)


Dec 06, 2018

"NASHVILLE (WJHL) - - A clarification made by the Tennessee Supreme Court opens the possibility for parole for two of the six people convicted in the Lillelid murderers.

Thursday, the state's high court determined that a defendant convicted of first-degree murder as a juvenile on or after July 1, 1995 becomes eligible for parole after serving 51 years.

Six people were convicted for the 1997 killing of the Lillelid family in Greene County. Two of those convicts, Jason Bryant and Karen Howell, were minors at the time. ..."

Tenn. Supreme Court clarification could lead to parole for Lillelid murderers
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Remembering the Lillelids -- 25 years since attack on family | wbir.com

"Twenty-five years later, the horror of what happened to a young Powell family still resonates across East Tennessee.

Happily, the lone survivor of the attack on the Lillelids in 1997 has endured, thrived, and is now focused on his own life and career.

After years with relatives who took him in in Sweden, Peter Lillelid is married and living in Connecticut, according to former journalist and family friend Gina Stafford, associate vice chancellor of communications and marketing at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga."
 

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