Police said they have strong leads in murder of a woman found stabbed to
death in South Nashville. Police said the body of 19-year-old Vickie Webb was discovered by maintenance staff around 3:30 p.m. Monday inside her
apartment in the Altamont Point complex on Murfreesboro. Police said
she had been dead for several days, and due to decomposition, positive
identification will be made through dental records. An autopsy on Tuesday revealed that the victim suffered stab wounds Webb's family told police they had not heard from her in several weeks. Her apartment rent was two months overdue, multiple rent notices from management had gone unanswered, and the electricity to the apartment was turned off. Maintenance staff from the apartment complex found the body at 3:30 p.m. Monday after using a passkey.

A 51-year-old woman wanted in connection to the murder of her boyfriend
surrendered to authorities at police headquarters Thursday night.
  Metro  police said Janice Leigh Jones turned herself in and was booked on a grand jury  indictment charging her with facilitation of first-degree murder. Jones
and her son, James Avery, are charged in connection to the February shooting
death  of James Charles Nance Nance, 46,was found dead in the front yard of a home on Union Hill Road in Joelton.Through their investigation, detectives learned that Nance and Jones had  been involved in a dispute. Detectives allege Avery drove Nance to Union Hill Road where he killed him. Jones is alleged to have had
knowledge of the plot.

Avery, 26, was already jailed for a probation
violation at the time of this week's indictment.

More than 10 years after the nude body of then-25-year-old Christina Yvonne  Parham turned up in East Nashville, cold case detectives arrested Wednesday the  man they believe killed her. 
Detectives arrested over-the-road truck  driver Kenneth Ray Davis, of Pennock Avenue, on a first-degree murder charge  following a grand jury indictment returned Tuesday. Police arrested Davis, 54,  on  Space Park North in Goodlettsville Wednesday morning as he parked a tractor-trailer rig after a trip to Laredo, Texas. Davis is being held in a Metro jail in lieu of $1 million bond. Parham’s body was found on the morning of Dec. 1, 2000, on the side of the road in the 1500 block of Dugger Drive in East Nashville. Police said Parham, of  Granada Avenue, was involved in prostitution and had apparently been thrown from  a moving vehicle. The medical examiner later determined she had died from  asphyxiation.  Police entered DNA evidence recovered from Parham’s body  into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System computer database. When Davis’ DNA was  later cross-referenced in the system following an aggravated rape conviction in  Shelby County, it allegedly matched the evidence collected in the Parham  case. Police said a recent DNA sample collected from Davis confirmed  the match, but Davis wouldn’t admit to Parham’s murder during an interview with  detectives. The FBI has been notified of Davis’ arrest, and since he
has worked as a truck driver for the last seven years, authorities are looking
into his involvement in any other homicides in the Nashville area or
elsewhere.