Did Frank Casteel do it? I guess it cant be said for certain he did it, but he probably did. This honestly is one of the worst, just totally uncalled for. Here are a couple more links to anyone interested in reading about the case. It was then that the police knew the three were shot with a shotgun.***** The bodies were found a few days later in the next county, in a garbage dump. This was signed by 50 or so people on the mountain. Monday night Frank Casteel was shown on the news, and they reported he was a suspect, and from this day on this made Frank Casteel guilty! On July 27, 1988, the people on the mountain put together a petition to get the Casteel's off the mountain. The police said they found blood at this location. The police were led to a place called the gate, where one man had said he had heard shots from the gate or 300 yards north of the gate. People had been coming forward to help in the search, and give information to the police. It was said by the police, they feared something bad had happened, because of the blood found on the ATV'S. That night the story hit the news, they reported that the three wheelers that the three men left on the night before had been found in a trash dump off the side of the mountain on Roberts Mill Road.īy the next day, Monday, the story was all over the newspapers. The family said they looked for them awhile, then decided to call the police to report them missing. The next day, the family of the three men who had left to go riding the night before, had never came home. While Frank Casteel was setting up camp, two boys came in, he told them they couldn't use the blue hole that day, and he talked with them for a while, and after they left he walked down and joined his wife at the blue hole. Frank's wife walks on down to the blue hole. When Frank and his wife arrived at the campsite, located on the edge of the powerlines. The second couple never came in that night. Frank's brother in law and his wife was thinking of joining them, because they were married in a double wedding years before. On July 9, 1988, Frank Casteel and his wife decides to go camping on their property, to celebrate their anniversary. To help keep track of the people who came and went, with the advise of a police officer, Frank Casteel started writing the names of people who came on his property, he kept it in a book what is now known as the "logbook". These people wanted to use the blue hole to go swimming, so Frank Casteel decided to make a trade, for the use of the blue hole, they could pick up some trash, to help clean the place up. He also saw that he had a lot of people coming and going on the property. When Frank Casteel started going up to the property,with the permission of Carter Patten the man he was buying the property from, he saw a lot of trash, and he knew he had a lot of cleaning up to do. But most of the people did not respect the land and it's owner, they would use the ground as a garbage can. The people came to this area to go swimming and go camping. This piece of property had a place that many local people loved to go, the blue hole. ****On Jthree men, Richard Mason, Kenneth Griffith and Earl Smock go riding on their ATV's in the back woods on Signal Mountain near Chattanooga Tennessee.Įarlier that year, Frank Casteel decides he wants to buy a piece of property located on Signal Mountain. Here is some info I copied and pasted from an article involving this case. Here's an article from Apthat explains the retrial being set up. Wow! For those that didn't already know, Frank Casteel was granted another trial, which actually started just a few weeks ago on November 12, 2002. Most UM fans here can all agree that the murder of the three ATV riders that took place in Tennessee in 1988 was one of the scariest featured stories ever.ĭid you guys know that an online petition was set up for people that believe Frank Casteel (the suspect) who think he was wrongfully convicted in the first place?
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