IMPORTANT NOTE: This timeline is a work in progress. It is not yet complete.
We will be adding new written transcriptions of the multimedia materials in the case file released by KCSO and the Knox County DA as they are completed. Accurately transcribing each of the audio and video files in the released case file is extremely time consuming, which is perhaps why no one in the media has yet done it for themselves, but we believe that completing these written transcriptions is fundamental to fully understanding the way this case was handled by the Office of the Knox County Sheriff.
Please check back regularly as new transcription links are added.
Legend:
- “LG” is the teenage girl whom Henry was dating at the time of his death.
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- April 23, 2010 – mid-afternoon – LG jailed on a charge of failure to appear (on previous drug charge)
-April 25, 2010 – late afternoon/early evening – Henry beaten by three assailants (Dustin Rush, Brandon May and Jacob Stooksbury), all of whom admit to the beating.
-April 26, 2010 – between 7pm-7:30 pm – Henry’s friends, including Ryan Barnes, watch him climb into a van with Randall Houser in the BiLo parking lot on John Sevier Highway. All witnesses report that Henry was significantly mentally and physically impaired at the time Houser took voluntary custody of him.
-April 26, 2010 – Henry’s cell phone’s geolocation “pings” place him inside the Tarklin Valley residence of Yolanda Harper and Randall Houser starting at just before 7:30 pm. The same records indicate that he never left the residence for the next approximately 17 hours until the time paramedics arrived around noon on April 27, 2010.
-April 27, 2010 - 11:36 am – Here is the written transcription of the 911 call that Yolanda Harper placed to Knox County E-911.
-April 27, 2010 – approximately noon – Responding to Harper’s 11:36 am 911 call, paramedics find Henry bruised, unconscious and near death inside the Tarklin Valley Road residence on Yolanda Harper and Randall Houser. (Here are the actual EMS records from that day)
-April 28, 2010 – Recorded jail phone call between Laurie Pelot Gooch and her incarcerated teenage daughter, LG
-April 29, 2010 – Recorded jail phone call between Laurie Pelot Gooch and her daughter, LG.
-April 29, 2010 – Recorded jail phone call between Laurie Pelot Gooch and her daughter, LG
-April 30, 2010 -First recorded jail phone call between LG and Yolanda Harper
-April 30, 2010 - Another recorded jail phone call between LG and Yolanda Harper
-May 10-13th, 2010 – Hospitalized for more than two weeks already, Henry bravely discloses to his mother sexual exploitation of at-risk Knox County adolescents by specific adults, and asks for the opportunity to give the information directly to law enforcement. KCSO is informed of this information by phone, but refuses to send anyone to speak to Henry or his family at the hospital. Alarmed by KCSO’s disinterest in Henry’s alarming allegations, Henry’s mother writes a detailed memo explaining what Henry has disclosed, and has it hand delivered to Knox County District Attorney Randy Nichols. (Note: this May 12, 2010 memo to DA Nichols does not appear in the case file released publicly on July 22, 2011 by KCSO and the Knox County DA’s Office. There is no explanation for the fact that it is not in the file, or for where it went after it was delivered to Mr. Nichols more than a year previously.)
-May 28, 2010 – Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Hall interviews Randall Houser.
- May 28, 2010 – Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Hall interviews Yolanda Harper after interview with Houser.
-May 31, 2010 – Henry dies after 5 weeks of hospitalization. No one from any law enforcement agency ever came to meet him or speak to him before he died.
-June 4, 2010 – Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Hall interviews witness Ryan Barnes.
-September 10, 2010 – Recorded telephone call as KCSO Deputy Brad Hall interviews witness Savannah Aderholdt.
-March 29, 2011 – Recorded telephone call as KCSO Deputy Brad Hall interviews Tony Meza, Yolanda Harper’s brother.
-July 18, 2011 – the Granju family receives a letter from District Attorney Randy Nichols explaining that the case was being closed, and that no arrests of any person for any crime whatsoever were possible.
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