Barry McDonald, a 35-year-old white man, was found stabbed to death in Nashville, Tennessee on July 14, 1989. The killing was described as brutal and left the community alarmed; the case remained unsolved for nearly a year.

In May 1990 Henry Eugene Hodges was arrested and later confessed to multiple murders committed between 1988 and 1990, including McDonald’s. Hodges was tried and convicted for McDonald’s murder and received a life sentence; he was also convicted in other killings and sentenced to death in at least one separate Tennessee case.

The conviction closed a case that had been a single, violent act in Nashville’s summer of 1989. If anyone knew Barry, his routine, or has information about that period in Nashville, please share what you know.