Carl Isaac Estep, a 43-year-old white inmate serving a life sentence for aggravated rape, was found stabbed to death in his cell at the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility in Tennessee on January 15, 1985. He suffered 38 stab wounds to the chest and neck, inflicted with homemade knives; the attack occurred during a guard shift change.

Investigators identified fellow inmates Nicholas Todd Sutton, Thomas Street, and Charles Arnold Freeman as the primary assailants. David W. Stufflestreet was later charged as an accessory after the fact. The reported motive involved disputes in the prison’s illicit drug trade: Estep allegedly sold bad merchandise to Sutton and Street, refused a refund, and threatened Sutton, which escalated into the fatal attack; Estep’s watch was also taken.

Sutton and Street were convicted in connection with the killing. Does anyone with knowledge of Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility around 1985 have additional details about the incident or the inmates involved?