Tag Archives: Douglas Lake

A four-year-old child was seriously injured after being struck by a boat propeller during a boating incident on Douglas Lake Sunday afternoon. According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Bill Thomas Wardlow Jr., 44, of Sevierville, was swimming near points 12 and 13 with three children under eight years old at about 3 p.m. on June 30, 2019. The wind ...

Authorities have released photos of clothing worn by a homicide victim as they plead for the public’s help in identifying the body found in a bag along the Douglas Lake shoreline. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help in identifying the remains of an adult male homicide victim. The body ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff says the body found in a bag along the shoreline of Douglas Lake last weekend was a victim of homicide and is asking the public to help identify the remains. About 4:30 p.m. on March 10, 2019, deputies were dispatched to a home on Lake Ridge Drive in Dandridge after the resident reported seeing a suspicious ...

A man drowned at a Douglas Lake campground swimming area on Monday afternoon. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office responded to a possible drowning call at the Douglas Dam Headwater Campground swimming area about 4:40 p.m. on June 15, 2015. A witness at the scene told Sheriff’s Officers that the victim was swimming in the campground’s designated swimming area, swam to ...