Tennessee Woman Whose Remains Were Discovered Nearly 40 Years Ago Has Finally Been Identified; The search for the Killer Has Begun

Nearly 40 years after her remains were discovered, a Tennesse woman from Nashville has been identified.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is now looking for the murderer of Tennessee woman Michelle Lavone Inman, 23, who was identified through genetic genealogy.

In March 1985, a motorist experiencing car difficulties on Interstate 24 West between mile markers 29 and 30 in Cheatham County discovered the Tennessee woman’s skeletal bones.

Anthropologists established that the Tennessee woman was murdered between two and five months before her discovery.

“After exhausting all leads, investigators could not determine the victim’s identity, and she was classified as a Jane Doe,” according to a TBI press release.

In April 2018, a sample of the remains of the Tennessee woman was sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI), where a DNA profile was produced and entered into national DNA and missing person databanks.

A sample of skeletal remains of the Tennessee woman was sent to a company that specializes in genetic genealogical DNA testing in December.

Authorities stated that investigators were given information about prospective relatives of the Tennessee woman, which led them to Inman’s brother. He told officials that he hadn’t spoken to his sister in more than four decades.

TBI agents are now seeking information from the public to help solve the murder of the Tennessee woman. Anyone with information about the Tennesse woman’s homicide or who she may have been with before her murder, or who recognized any of the apparel, is asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND.

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