Nearly 15 years after Joshua Lars Strickland’s body was found in a truck that had been set on fire behind a vacant movie theater, investigators have arrested the man they say killed him.
48-year-old Landon “L.G.” Gray was taken into custody last week after a grand jury indicted him on first-degree murder and felony murder charges. His arrest comes after renewed efforts from multiple agencies led to the discovery of new evidence.
In 2020, District Attorney General Ray Crouch formed a task force that brought together investigators from his office and Nashville D.A. Glenn Funk, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Dickson Police, and Metro Nashville Police.
In the early morning hours of September 10, 2010, a passerby reported seeing a fire behind the site of the former Regal Cinema in Bellevue (now the Royal Range USA). The building had been vacant for months following the historic May floods…