TN TN- Rose Busch, 64, jeweler, fatally beaten, stabbed & shot w. gun that had silencer, only her ring stolen, @ her Sequoyah Hills home, 19 Nov. '68

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2008 rbbm Lengthy interesting detail at link.

Harry and Rose Busch @ left.

Slaying in Sequoyah Hills: Who killed Rose Busch?

Brutal killing of jeweler's wife remains mystery after 40 years

www.knoxnews.com

''In her home at 1026 Kenesaw Ave., Rose Busch, 64, wife of wealthy businessman and jeweler Harry Busch, 69, had baked a cake. She began icing it as the family maid left around 4 p.m. The longtime yard man, William Young, was still working outside.''
"Both TVs and a radio in the house were on. Young left on foot for his bus stop at 5:15 p.m.
In less than 45 minutes - perhaps within 10 minutes - Rose Busch was killed.
"Someone must have been watching around to see when I left," Young told the News Sentinel the next day. "But I didn't see anybody."
In the hallway leading from the Busches' carport door to the kitchen, Harry found Rose Busch lying on her back. She was covered with blood from blows to the head and knife wounds to her body.
The final wound had pierced her heart, delivered with such force that the knife handle broke off. The blade was still in her left breast. On the floor, along with the knife handle, lay her glasses and her dentures. There was a grazing gunshot wound to her hand.''
''The clues found the morning after the slaying - particularly the silencer - pointed away from a home invasion robbery and to a contract killing. Cash and jewelry at first believed stolen was all accounted for, except Rose Busch's 3-carat diamond ring.
"I don't see robbery as a motive," Watson said.''

Dr. Randy Pedigo, a former Knox County medical examiner, studied the Rose Busch autopsy report at the News Sentinel's request. He described the attack as "very brutal and prolonged. These are the types of wounds you more commonly see in rape murders."

2010

Murder Mysteries: Cold Case Group looks to bring justice to victims in unsolved cases

"On several of them, we know who did it. We just can't prove it. It's frustrating for us, and it's frustrating for the families that want closure."

archive.knoxnews.com

'Forty years after the crime, former Knoxville Police Chief Bob Marshall still wishes he could prove who killed Rose Busch, the jeweler's wife who was shot, beaten and stabbed to death in her Sequoyah Hills home in 1968.'

https://www.wate.com/news/lonely-bones/knoxvilles-oldest-murder-case-remains-unsolved-after-nearly-55-years/

by: Hope McAlee Posted: Jun 28, 2023
''While little information is available on Knoxville Police’s website, other sources have compiled information about what might have happened to Rose Busch.

Historic Archaeology said Busch was a Polish native who immigrated the the United States as a child. It adds that the home was kept locked and secured and even had a security system that showed that Busch had armed the alarm after a gardener had left the home.

In 2007, a journalist for The Jerusalem Post recounted her Jewish origins in the South and called Busch’s “brutal murder” as a “dark stain on the community.” Rhonda Robinson wrote that Busch was stabbed multiple times with a paring knife and was shot once in the front hallway of the home, although there were no signs of a forced entry.''

 

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Historic Archaeology said Busch was a Polish native who immigrated the the United States as a child. It adds that the home was kept locked and secured and even had a security system that showed that Busch had armed the alarm after a gardener had left the home.

If they had a home security system in 1968 in nice suburban Tennessee, then that was rare, and they must have had it for a reason.

The fact Rose armed it after the gardener left (and probably did so every day) speaks volumes about how they feared for their safety.

I have a feeling Mr. Busch was involved in dealings with nasty individuals or local mafia types, got into trouble with them, and so they retailiated by killing his wife.