The parents of Conor Dolin have taken their fight to court, filing a wrongful-death lawsuit that claims their son’s 2022 crash was not just a tragedy, but the start of a chain of official failures that obscured what really happened.
The suit, filed Feb. 23 in Knox County Circuit Court, targets both the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the parents of the underage driver whose truck struck and killed Conor. The complaint accuses investigators of losing the original case file, deleting body-camera footage from the crash scene, and never finishing a formal crash reconstruction that might have clarified the events leading to the collision. The Dolin family is seeking $10 million from the driver’s family, along with additional damages from Knox County.
According to reporting by the Knoxville News Sentinel, the lawsuit says the teen behind the wheel was 15 years old, unlicensed, and driving a truck registered to his father at the time of the crash. The complaint further alleges the family of the driver launched a GoFundMe that used Conor’s name and image without permission, and that none of the donations ever reached the Dolins. Their attorney, Richie Collins, said the family spent more than two years pressing officials for answers that never fully materialized.
Alleged investigative failures
In the filing, the Dolins lay out what they describe as a cascade of errors and omissions by law enforcement. The initial investigative file, they say, went missing. No complete crash reconstruction was ever carried out. Body-camera footage from officers at the scene was deleted…