Jerry "Buck" Inman had a violent past...
By Steve Huff
June 7, 2006
Dandridge, Tennessee (Crime Library) — And within hours, the manhunt ended.
Shortly after midnight, Wednesday, police conducting a routine motor vehicle stop in Tennessee arrested Jerry "Buck" Inman, a 35-year-old convicted sex offender wanted in connection with the brutal strangulation death of Tiffany Souers. The man, whom allegedly choked the life out of the pretty young Clemson University co-ed more than a week earlier, put up no resistance, according to published reports.
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Inman's arrest on charges of murder, first-degree sexual conduct and kidnapping, capped a massive ten-day search, a probe that captured the attention of the national media. Authorities searching for clues had flooded the national airwaves and print media with photos of the man, taken while he allegedly tried to use the slain woman's ATM card in the hours after her death. But it was DNA samples — evidence authorities say Inman left at the crime scene— that ultimately led to his arrest.
Authorities on Tuesday night, June 6th, released Inman's name to the media by investigators after tests of material found at the scene of Tiffany Souers' murder had registered a hit on Inman, who had been released from a Florida prison in 2005 and was supposed to be living in Dandridge, TN. Investigators now believe that Inman, a contractor by trade, was working at a site not far from Souers' off campus apartment, and that, they believe, was what led him to target her.
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