IN MEMORY OF " CARY ANN MEDLIN "

Cary Ann Medlin, 8, Greenfield, Tenn., On Sept. 1, 1979 -- She was going to ride her bike with her brother, Michael, 6...

Robert Glen Coe saw the children, stopped his car and "conned" Cary Ann into the car, then kidnapped, raped and murdered her...

Her brother was found standing on the side of a road at the Primitive Baptist Church,holding both bikes...

Rescue workers found Cary Ann's body in a field 10 miles from her Weakley County home 20 hours later; she had been raped and stabbed...

Police arrested Robert Glen Coe, 23, of McKenzie at the Greyhound station in Huntingdon three days after the killing..

Coe, a part-time automobile mechanic with a history of sexual deviancy and drug abuse, had dyed his sandy brown hair black and sold his Ford Gran Torino...

He was preparing to board a bus for Georgia...

Coe was convicted of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape and first degree murder in 1981 in Shelby County,where the trial was moved to limit pre-trial publicity..

He was sentenced to death for the murder, and to two life sentences for the kidnapping and rape charges...

Coe has had at least nine execution dates in his 21 years on death row...

If executed as scheduled by lethal injection, he will be the first inmate put to death in Tennessee in 40 years...

Robert Coe was Executed 4-19-2000  by lethal injection, the first person put to death in Tennessee since 1960...

May CARY ANN MEDLIN " Rest In Peace "

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