http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?...d=57614&catid=2COLD CASE: Clinton man's murder remains unsolved after 16 years
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The search for whomever killed a Clinton man continues, 16 years after his death. It's a crime that continues to bring pain to his family and puzzlement to police.
"I wish I would have told him I loved him more than I had," brother David McGhee said.
Those close to 47-year-old Charles McGhee continue to live with an irreplaceable void after an unexplainable murder.
A small caliber gun forever took the man better known as "Sack."
"I remember exactly where I was at," brother Jerry McGhee said. "I was at work."
On June 14th 1992, McGhee and the rest of his family learned Sack had been shot to death. His body was found in his red and white Chevy truck parked on Bull Run Valley Road near the Knox/ Anderson County line.
"I just got numb. I didn't know," Jerry McGhee said. "I just walked out of the plant and got in my car and left."
Investigators believe "Sack" likely knew his killer, and perhaps someone driving by may have seen that killer.
A witness reported seeing two males talking to someone in what is believed to Sack's pickup truck in the same location of the murder.
"We ruled out robbery as a motive because there wasn't anything taken out of his truck," Knox County Sheriff's Office Chief Bobby Waggoner said. "He had a brief case and other items in his truck that were not missing."
Family members now go to the Grandview Memorial Gardens in Clinton to be close to Sack. Sixteen years after his murder, they say the pain still stings like it were yesterday.
Although an arrest would never take it away, knowing who and why would answer their prayers.
"I think about it everyday. Everyday," David McGhee said. "Not a day goes by that I don't think about it."
His siblings often think about why Sack went to the rural road in the middle of the night, when he was set to be at work in a few hours. They say so much about his murder just doesn't make sense.
"I think he was called there," Jerry McGhee said.
More than a decade later, Sack's family is still in search of answers and investigators in search of his killer. They believe someone out there knows exactly what happened and that it's time to break their silence.
"If we just get a little thread to go on, we'll make a case," Chief Waggoner said.
It is a cold case that can be solved and needs to be. Sack's family deserves some peace.
"It's been so long since it happened now that people forget, but I don't think any of us will ever forget," David McGhee said.
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