Monthly Archives: September 2011

Following last week’s indictments and arrests, Henry’s family members will not be offering any commentary publicly regarding any aspect of the case until it once again becomes appropriate for them to do so. However, community volunteers will continue to moderate … Continue reading →

September 20, 2011 Fifteen months ago, I made a promise to my dying teenage son, Henry. I told him I would do everything possible to make sure that no other young people in our community were hurt as he had been. Today, … Continue reading →

The case file released to the media by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office on July 22, 2011 contains more than 30 soundfile recordings of phone calls between Henry’s teenage girlfriend and others during her incarceration in the Knox County Detention Center. She … Continue reading →

Our family wants to publicly thank those concerned citizens who have been helping us pull together the written transcriptions of the multimedia files (interviews and jail call recordings) that are contained in the released case file. Transcription is time consuming, … Continue reading →

Several weeks ago, multiple members of Henry’s family signed a letter which we then sent to the Editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel (KNS). Our letter requested a number of clarifications and/or specific corrections to the July 30, 2011 front … Continue reading →

The centerpiece of the case file released to the media on July 22, 2011 by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office is a faux-legalistic “Summary Memorandum” (SM)..The SM was authored by a specific Assistant Knox County District Attorney as the official … Continue reading →

On May 28, 2010, Henry had been in the hospital over a month already, and had just taken a terrible turn for the worse. He would die only three days later. On May 28, 2010, no one from KCSO or … Continue reading →

Since the first week that Henry was hospitalized in late April of 2010, our family has been as brutally honest as we have known how to be about the fact that Henry was struggling with a serious drug problem. Our … Continue reading →

The case file released to the media by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office on July 22, 2011 contains more than 30 soundfile recordings of phone calls between Henry’s teenage girlfriend and others during her incarceration in the Knox County Detention Center. She … Continue reading →

The case file released to the media by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office on July 22, 2011 contains more than 30 soundfile recordings of phone calls between Henry’s teenage girlfriend and others during her incarceration in the Knox County Detention Center. She … Continue reading →