‘He was somebody’ Blount County family remembers victim of cold case that took nearly 40 years to solve

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. – Billy Wayne Hearon is more than just a man whose cold-case murder took nearly 40 years to come to an arrest. “He’s somebody, not just a picture sitting here or a name in the paper,” Joyce Tipton, Hearon’s sister, said. “He was real.” Tipton is…

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