January 8, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
Bloody hammer recovered!
A search of a county dumpster today (Monday) by investigators of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department has turned up the suspected murder weapon allegedly used by 70-year-old Joseph Michael Glynn to kill his wife, 76-year-old Jackie Glynn at their primary residence in Nashville before burying her body on property they owned on Allen Bend Road in the Belk Community of DeKalb County last week. Law enforcement found Ms. Glynn’s body on Friday. Mr. Glynn was charged by Metro Nashville Police with criminal homicide, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. He remains in custody on a $1,030,000 bond.
Meanwhile, another arrest has been made in the case by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. 29-year-old Anthony Tate “Rooster” Miller of Allen Bend Road has been charged with filing a false report. Although Miller is not accused of being an accomplice in the murder, Sheriff Patrick Ray said Miller gave conflicting stories to investigators about his contact with Glynn last week and his knowledge about how Ms Glynn’s vehicle, a Toyota RAV4 got to where it was found abandoned on Barnes Mill Road.
During an interview by Metro Nashville Police detectives on Friday, Glynn allegedly confessed to beating his wife to death with a hammer and told them that he had thrown the murder weapon away in the trash at the Keltonburg convenience site on Tuesday. The hammer was believed to be in a dumpster.
Sheriff Ray said when he learned of this information, he contacted County Mayor Matt Adcock about getting access to the dumpster to look for the hammer.
“Last Friday night, I contacted County Mayor Adcock about the convenience site at Keltonburg and if the dumpster had been dumped (emptied) since Tuesday. He thought that it had been. County Mayor Adcock called me back Saturday morning and told me he checked further and found that the dumpster did not have enough trash in it to dump. I had Mayor Adcock pull the dumpster in from the compactor and take it to the transfer station. It was placed there in a secure location under camera. We went today (Monday) at 3 p.m. and by 3:25 p.m. we had found two bags. Glynn had told Metro Nashville detectives that there were two bags (he had thrown in the trash). One of the bags had clothes and things in it. The other bag had a bloody hammer and other articles in the trash bag that had blood on them including a towel and rags that Glynn had allegedly used to try to clean up the murder scene in Nashville. We retrieved them,” said Sheriff Ray.
He further explained Miller’s involvement in the case.
“Two Metro detectives and myself went and talked to Rooster on Friday and asked him if he knew Glynn. He first said no but after a few minutes Miller said he remembered him. Miller said it had been a couple of weeks since he had seen him (Glynn) and that he had not talked to him and did not know anything about him. Later that night, sheriff’s department detectives went and talked to Miller again and he confessed to knowing where (Ms Glynn’s) car was. That’s how we found the car. We learned that on Tuesday Glynn towed the vehicle on a trailer and had dropped it off at Miller’s house (Allen Bend Road) and then sent Miller a text stating the vehicle was at his house. It stayed there until 10 or 10:30 Friday morning when Glynn came and picked up the vehicle and took it to Barnes Mill Road. When we found out that Miller had lied to law enforcement during the murder investigation, we decided to charge him with filing a false report,” said Sheriff Ray.
Miller’s bond is $10,000 and his court date in DeKalb County is January 25.
Sheriff Ray said the Glynn investigation remains ongoing.