Dorothy Lucille Murrell was 64 when she was last seen by family in Newport, a small community in Cocke County, Tennessee, on May 24, 1984. Public details about that day are scarce. She had brown hair and blue eyes, stood between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 4 inches, weighed 150 to 160 pounds, wore glasses, and owned a yellow gold watch with a special engraving. She also had scars from prior lung and gall bladder surgeries and a steel pin in her left hip.

Dorothy’s disappearance remained unresolved for years. Her neighbor, Terry Butler, was eventually convicted of her murder, though her body has never been recovered. In a 1991 interview with a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent, Butler said he accidentally shot Dorothy after mistaking her for an intruder in the dark, hid her body in his basement, later moved it to a storage room at work, and then disposed of the remains in a dumpster after his employer discovered the body and fired him.

Does anyone have information about Dorothy’s last known movements in Newport or recall seeing her yellow gold watch with the engraving?