KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s been more than 35 years since Bill Frye was shot and killed by a sawed-off shotgun in the parking lot of his South Knoxville store, and the man convicted of killing him is up for parole in a few weeks.
Jimmy Ray Cureton has been housed in the Morgan County Correctional Complex since November 1997.
He was first up for parole in October 2023. However, the state’s parole board declined to release him after a hearing that year…