SUSPECT IN CUSTODY TN - 4 people found deceased, related to an infant abandoned in car seat in someone's yard (Dyer County, TN) 29 July 2025

[MassGuy]

I want to know where their bodies were found, and how they were killed. They believe this was isolated, and the facts themselves tell me this is either drug related, or some relationship thing.

 

[AcerPacer]

I want to know where their bodies were found, and how they were killed. They believe this was isolated, and the facts themselves tell me this is either drug related, or some relationship thing.

If they (I guess LE) can "believe this was isolated" then I think the deceased knew the killer/killers for sure! This isn't a random attacker when a family is targeted!

 

[steeltowngirl]

I want to know where their bodies were found, and how they were killed. They believe this was isolated, and the facts themselves tell me this is either drug related, or some relationship thing.

The four bodies were found Tuesday night on Carrington Road in Tiptonville, located in Lake County, approximately 40 miles away from where a seven-month-old girl was dropped off in a Dyer County yard.

TBI seeking suspect(s) after 4 family members of abandoned baby discovered dead

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says one or more suspects are being sought after the overnight discovery of four bodies in Northwest Tennessee, which has since been connected to an abandoned infant case.

www.actionnews5.com

 

[legomonster]

Was the baby found first or the victims? I wonder if they quickly left her and left a note with them telling her location before the tragic events took place. If it has been established lmk and ill edit.

 

[MassGuy]

If they (I guess LE) can "believe this was isolated" then I think the deceased knew the killer/killers for sure! This isn't a random attacker when a family is targeted!

Yeah, no way. It's just a matter of what the connection/motive is.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Was the baby found first or the victims? I wonder if they quickly left her and left a note with them telling her location before the tragic events took place. If it has been established lmk and ill edit.

Great question. I thought the part I bolded below was odd. Did whoever drop the baby off really leave a photo too? If so, was the baby’s name written on it? Or did People Magazine mean the sheriff’s dept displayed a photo on their site?

"A dark-colored minivan or a white mid-size SUV was reported to have dropped off an infant in a car seat at a random individual’s front yard," they added, alongside a photo of the infant. "Thankfully a witness saw the car seat with the child and called 911."

4 People Found Dead in Tenn. After an Infant Was Abandoned in a Stranger’s Front Yard. Now Authorities Are Linking the Cases

Four people have been found dead in Tennessee after an infant was abandoned in a stranger's front yard, police have said, with authorities linking the two cases together.

people.com

 

[legomonster]

Great question. I thought the part I bolded below was odd. Did whoever drop the baby off really leave a photo too? If so, was the baby’s name written on it? Or did People Magazine mean the sheriff’s dept displayed a photo on their site?

"A dark-colored minivan or a white mid-size SUV was reported to have dropped off an infant in a car seat at a random individual’s front yard," they added, alongside a photo of the infant. "Thankfully a witness saw the car seat with the child and called 911."

4 People Found Dead in Tenn. After an Infant Was Abandoned in a Stranger’s Front Yard. Now Authorities Are Linking the Cases

Four people have been found dead in Tennessee after an infant was abandoned in a stranger's front yard, police have said, with authorities linking the two cases together.

people.com

I think they left a note knowing sadly what was about to happen. In my mind, they probably got a little lead and left her somewhere and wrote a note to find her. Just so tragic. Again, imo.

 

[Magic8Ball]

Yeah, no way. It's just a matter of what the connection/motive is.

This screams drug-related to me. Either a drug deal gone sideways or an attempted robbery of/for drugs or something similar. A lot of dealers and/or desperate addicts will kill for drugs (addicts) or over drug money (dealers), but not many would heartlessly murder a helpless, innocent baby who can't id them.

 

[DS2021]

Am I tripping or was there already a thread about this case from a cpl days ago?

 

[AcerPacer]

This screams drug-related to me. Either a drug deal gone sideways or an attempted robbery of/for drugs or something similar. A lot of dealers and/or desperate addicts will kill for drugs or over drug money, but not many would heartlessly murder a helpless, innocent baby who can't id them.

I really hope the young couple who clearly doted on their baby are not mixed up in drugs..but then again they also killed the mother's little brother.. surely he can't have been!? Collateral?

 

[appleatcha]

Am I tripping or was there already a thread about this case from a cpl days ago?

Different baby, different state. (You're thinking of a case out of Florida.)

 

[DS2021]

Different baby, different state. (You're thinking of a case out of Florida.)

Oh ok my bad
Ty

 

[appleatcha]

Was the baby found first or the victims? I wonder if they quickly left her and left a note with them telling her location before the tragic events took place. If it has been established lmk and ill edit.

The baby was found before the victims were found. I don't believe we know the victims' time of death to know whether they were still alive when the baby was found.

 

[Goldenseal]

I suspect the four adults were murdered and whoever is responsible didn't have it in them to murder a baby and so dumped him on a lawn and booked it.

Baby found Old Highway 20 near the Tigrett community, has any said - where were the bodies located?

Or the baby was dumped by the relatives as they fled for their lives . . . that way, at least their baby survives. So grim.

 

[legomonster]

The baby was found before the victims were found. I don't believe we know the victims' time of death to know whether they were still alive when the baby was found.

So, it could work both ways where they left a note with her too. I would if I was running for my life and wanted my child to live. Perhaps they didn't have time but without a doubt I would leave a note on her and me if I could. But, again, imo.

 

[Magic8Ball]

I really hope the young couple who clearly doted on their baby are not mixed up in drugs..but then again they also killed the mother's little brother.. surely he can't have been!? Collateral?

Possibly could be a case of wrong place/wrong time and old enough to be an eyewitness.
But 15 is definitely old enough to be mixed up in the drug life.
Sadly, there are many kids even younger than that who are couriers and dealers.

I'm not saying that's the case with this poor teenage victim here, it's just given the set of circumstances, this case has the whiff of drugs in it somewhere to me...I think it's a virtual certainty that the perpetrator(s) will have a history of drug-related offenses.

The only other possibility I see is an armed carjacking, but I haven't seen whether or not LE has verified whether that minivan/SUV vehicle of interest matches the description of a victim's vehicle or not.

There's been zero reporting of an escaped convict, so it appears highly unlikely that a prison being in the area would be at all related to this case.

One big dissimilarity between this case and the Rhoden family murders out of Ohio is that in this case, apparently the baby girl's bio dad is one of the victims. In the Rhoden case, the bio dad was one of the perps, and custodial issues were a primary motive for those murders. That doesn't fit with this case based on what we've been told so far.

If we find out something different about paternity or victims' familial relationships to the baby, then that would be noteworthy.

JMO.

 

[steeltowngirl]

The baby was found before the victims were found. I don't believe we know the victims' time of death to know whether they were still alive when the baby was found.

We don't know if the victims dropped the baby off or someone else did. As in - whoever killed them. Such an important fact, and we don't know.

 

[Lusitana]

This is horrible. That poor baby. Is the family on the dad's side able to care for her?

 

[QB2022]

What a sad case poor baby!

 

[Magic8Ball]

We don't know if the victims dropped the baby off or someone else did. As in - whoever killed them. Such an important fact, and we don't know.

My money is on the perp(s) dropping her off to spare her life.

If the adult victims had decided to drop the baby somewhere in an attempt to save her, the mother of the 15-year-old (baby's grandma) would have almost certainly pushed him out of the car as well and told him to run and take the baby somewhere safe.

Google AI says Tiptonville (where the victims were found) has "had a number of drug-related incidents over the past few years."

Meth is apparently a thing there. Manufacturing and distribution. And cocaine. And fentanyl.

If AI is to be believed.