A man on his deathbed gave police crucial information that could break open a Tennessee cold case from 1973.
On March 16 of that year, authorities found John Raymond Constant Jr. shot dead inside his brand-new Peterbilt tractor-trailer outside Vonore. At least 17 bullets riddled his body, with gunshots splayed across the cab.
“It was probably a submachine gun,” Richard Fisher, then-district attorney general, told the Knoxville News-Sentinel. “They made sure he was dead.”
The dying man recently spoke to authorities.
