John Michael Large was 19 when he was killed in the summer of 1979 after being lured to a remote farm in Waynesville, North Carolina. Sutton admitted to striking Large with a tobacco stick, beating and choking him with a dog chain, and forcing a tobacco stick down his throat before burying the body in a shallow grave near Mount Sterling.

Authorities later exhumed remains at the location Sutton identified. The autopsy listed blunt force trauma to the head as the cause of death and found a piece of plywood lodged in Large’s mouth, a detail that contradicts Sutton’s description of the object used. A murder warrant was issued for Sutton; no other individuals were arrested or named as suspects in Large’s death.

Does anyone have information about John Large’s life in Tennessee or his movements in North Carolina that summer?