Les Jones: Developments in the Johnia Berry Case on the First Anniversary of Her Murder

December 06, 2005

Johnia Berry > Developments in the Johnia Berry Case on the First Anniversary of Her Murder

A year ago today Johnia Berry was stabbed to death in her Cedar Bluff apartment. Police and her family are still looking for the killer.

New clues from the crime scene

The Knox Sheriff's office has released photos of the CD wallet and a CD with the initials "ML." Both were found at the crime scene, along with a car stereo. The initials might be the killer's, or they might belong to someone the killer robbed. If that's the case, if that person came forward and gave details of the theft from their car, home (or locker?) that could be a clue.

Reward

The sheriff's office is asking the governor to increase the $10,000 reward to $20,000.

Knoxville radio

Johnia's brother Kelly Burke will be on several Knoxville radio stations Tuesday morning:

The Hallerin Hill show on WNOX-FM 100.3 around 7:00
The Marc and Kim show on Star 102.1 FM around 8:00
Kevin with The Point Morning Show on WMYU-FM 93.1 around 8:45 (I keep saying around because programming schedules are hectic and subject to last-minute change)
Mike Blakemore of Love 89, Jennifer Alexander of B97.5, and Jimmy Holt of WIVK-FM 107.7 will mention Johnia's story Tuesday.

Many thanks to Star 102.1's Frank Murphy for arranging the appearances and contacting his friends in the Knoxville radio community to get the word out.

Memorial scholarship established at ETSU

The Johnia Hope Berry Memorial Scholarship has been established to help students interested in pursuing a career in child psychology. Donations are appreciated.

Media coverage this week - updated as it comes in

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Comments

Just wanted to give you the heads up the that the trackback is not working on this post, or at least not for us.

We trackedback yesterday and added the Johnia code on our blog but the TB never showed. We also went through a manual ping process to be sure that it was valid. That process showed valid on our end. We are not worried about link credit, and do NOT worry about adding us, but are concerned that some that are tracking back, and who may get comments on their blogs, are not showing up which could mean some info is not being shared / read, etc. Just a heads up.

Thanks for your great blog, your work on this case, and all that you do in the ET blogosphere.

Stay strong, and be couragous.

Our post here

http://www.team-swap.com/wordpress/2005/12/06/johnia-berry/

Posted by: frank at December 07, 2005

Thanks for the link, Frank.

FWIW, I never see trackbacks from WordPress blogs. Don't know why.

Posted by: Les Jones at December 07, 2005

Thanks for the response and info. WordPress is wierd about TB's with some blogs, very odd. Anyway thanks for the response.

Stay strong and be couragous.

Posted by: frank at December 08, 2005