In 1987, a Nashville man, James Shaffer, was arrested after police discovered the bodies of two Black women buried under dirt in his basement. Now, nearly 40 years later and one year after the identification of one of the women, Sheila Cummings, in 2025, the second victim has been identified as Toni L. Gordon.
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The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) revealed its findings on Monday, Nov. 9, after conducting forensic genetic genealogy, and believes Gordon was 31 when she was killed in 1985, two years before her body was discovered, per MNPD. Sheila Cummings was 23 years old…