Who was mo teeters of union citytn?

Answer 1

Howard "Mo" Teeters was a man that lived in Union City, Tennessee. My memory is fuzzy on the year but he murdered his niece, Amanda Rhodes. I was the same age as Amanda and if my memory serves correct her murder occured in the fall of 1991, our sixth grade year. Being so young, many details of her death were not discussed in my presence but I remember talk about strangulation and graphic ways to dispose of her body but I have no factual evidence to back that up. Mo is a urban legend for this area to this day because he escaped from the small, old jail that was located at the top of our county courthouse. He shimmied (sp?) down a thin drainage pipe that ran down the building and was a fugitive from justice for about 2 weeks. There are many chilling aspects to this tale because the funeral home where Amanda's body was being prepared for burial is located directly across the street from the courthouse and a window was reportedly broken open that night but there is no evidence that Teeters was responsible for that. He eventually turned himself in to the Obion County Sheriff's department in a small country cemetery in Troy, Tennessee which is also located in Obion County about 10 minutes from Union City. Teeters was eventually convicted of the murder but remanded to a psychiatric facility in Bolivar, Tennessee I believe. There he stored his medication instead of taking it and eventually took it all at one time, killing himself. This is a horrible story that is still talked about today, 17 years later.