MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A member of a board designed to review punishment for crimes is now on the wrong side of a criminal investigation. Vanessa Murtaugh, chair for the Tennessee Inmate Disciplinary ...

Vanessa Murtaugh, a Tennessee Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board member, has been indicted on charges of statutory rape. Murtaugh's position on the board, which was formed after the murder of ...

A former board member of Tennessee's Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board, and former Shelby County assistant district attorney, has been indicted on statutory rape charges, a copy of the ...

It was created in 2023 in response to Cleotha Abston’s release from prison in before the murder of Eliza Fletcher in Memphis. “There will be no interruption to the Board’s work and there ...

The state legislature created the board in 2023 in response to the early release of Cleotha Abston who served 20 years of a 24-year prison sentence before allegedly kidnapping and murdering ...