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FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say the slayings of three women and a toddler in southern Tennessee and a death just across the border in Alabama may be linked.
Madison County Coroner Craig Whisenant in Alabama said a body found there Tuesday may be that of Warren Vincent Crutcher, 24, of 981 Dan Crutcher Road, Toney.
Crutcher was wanted for questioning by Lincoln County, Tenn., authorities.
On Monday, Tennessee officials found three women and an 18-month-old boy dead at two different homes in Lincoln County, about 100 miles south of Nashville. The cause of death hasn't been released.
Sheriff Murray Blackwelder said two children survived the attacks and identified one of them as Crutcher's 3-year-old son.
Whisenant said authorities haven't positively identified the dead man in Alabama. He wouldn't comment on the cause of death but said it wasn't suicide.
Crutcher was arrested earlier this month in Limestone County on an indictment for first-degree burglary and second-degree assault. An arrest warrant, issued Oct. 1, following Crutcher’s indictment noted he is “armed and dangerous.” He was arrested on Oct. 2, and his bond was set at $15,000.
On Oct. 4 of last year, Crutcher and four other men allegedly entered the home of Jonathan Haynes, 20, of Athens, to collect a $900 debt for some oxycontin they gave him, according to a report in The News Courier.
The men allegedly pistol-whipped Haynes, possibly with a semiautomatic Glock pistol, after Haynes offered his television and stereo instead of the $900. The gun discharged, grazing the back of Haynes upper arm, Sheriff Mike Blakely said at the time.
The sheriff said Haynes’ roommate was outside the trailer at his vehicle when four people came up asking for Haynes’ whereabouts. The roommate reportedly told the men he didn’t know, and Blakely said the men “knocked him around” before telling them Haynes might be in the trailer.
The sheriff told The News Courier that when the men went inside, the roommate called the sheriff’s office. Before deputies arrived, the men fled in three vehicles.
Haynes was able to identify two of the assailants — one of which was Crutcher.
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