When two sisters vanish after walking to a neighborhood convenience store their family is immediately alarmed. The urgency of the case ratchets up when their skeletonized remains are found weeks later in the heart of a federal recreation area. The unsolved murders of 16-year-old Vickie Stout and 14-year-old Carla Atkins need your attention.
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Episode Source Material
- Park Predators Interview with Patricia Gordon & Amelia Courtney. Conducted October 11, 2025. By Delia D’Ambra.
- Carla Atkins Autopsy Report. Courtesy, Amelia Courtney.
- Vickie Stout Autopsy Report. Courtesy, Amelia Courtney.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Two Dover Girls Remain Missing. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Missing Girls’ Bodies Found. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Slayings Probe Moves to Paris. By Greg Kuhl via newspapers.com.
- The Commercial Appeal: Grisly Discovery Finishes Search for 2 Teenagers. By Charles M. Crouch via newspapers.com.
- The Tennessean: Teens Death Probe Spreads to Henry. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Johnson City Press: Memorial Fund begun for two girls found dead. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Commercial Appeal: Family Digs Graves As Killer is Sought. By Charles M. Crouch via newspapers.com.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Girls’ Bodies Returned to Dover. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Services Held for Dover Girls. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Tennessean: Funeral Rites Held for Slain Sisters. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Reward Offered In Sisters Murder. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Leaf-Chronicle: Autopsy: Dover Girls Were Shot. By Wendell Wilson via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: New Information Reopens Dover Murder Case. By Janine Burns via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Unsolved Murder Of Two Dover Teens To Be Featured On TV. By B. L. Williams via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Possible Link Found In 1980 Murder Of Two Teens. By B. L. Williams via newspapers.com.
- The Tennessean: Sheriff hasn’t closed book on unsolved 1980 killings. By Paul Oldham via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Double murder reopened. By Bonnie Lill via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Case still cold after 33 years. By Bonnie Lill via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Cold case: 1980 murders of Atkins, Stout on front burner for three years. By Bonnie Lill. via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Candlelight Vigil for Justice draws 100. By Bonnie Lill via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: 35th Anniversary Memorial Vigil of LBL Murders Oct. 3. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Initial Media Reports on Stout/Atkins Murders Contained False Information. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: LBL Murder Victims Initially Listed As Runaways. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Autopsy Reports: LBL Murder Victims Died From Shotgun Wounds to Head. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Thursday Marks 35th Anniversary of Carla & Vickie’s Disappearance. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Murder Victims Lived Behind Old Dairy Dip, Early Summer 1980. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: D.A. Crouch to Speak at Vigil Saturday For Carla & Vickie. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Vigil marks 35 years of unsolved murders. By Carole Blish via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: 2015 Saw Movement in Unsolved 1980 LBL Double Murder. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Breaking News: TBI Seeks Help in Unsolved Stout Atkins Murder. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Stewart-Houston Times: Haslam offers reward in 1980 case. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: The Elusive Press Release. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Calls for Reward Increase in 1980 Atkins/Stout Murder Case. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Reward Increase in Stout/Atkins Murder Case in Hands of Governor. By David Russell Ross via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Another Anniversary of Girls Murder in LBL. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: 40 Year Anniv. Of Sisters Unsolved Murder in LBL; New Podcast Starts Sept. 17. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Could There Be a Killer Among Us? DA Looking At Persons From Area; DNA Profile Being Worked on in 40 Yr. Old LBL Murder Case. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Prayer Vigil for Atkins, Stout Sunday, Oct. 4 Starting at 2pm. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Vigil Held for 40th Anniversary of LBL Murders. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: First DNA Results Come Back in LBL Murder Case. By Danny Peppers via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: 41 Years After Atkins/Stout Murders, Sister Says: “I Know Who Killed the Girls.” By Levi Page via newspapers.com.
- Stewart County Standard: Family Plans Vigil 41 Years After LBL Murders. By Levi Page via newspapers.com.
- Land Between the Lakes Area: ‘Death at the old Dover Dairy Dip’ – LBL’s unsolved 1980 Lost Creek Child Murders. By David Russell Ross.
- Fox 17 WZTV Nashville: Tennessee sisters’ unsolved 1980 double murder still haunts family, friends. By Amanda Chin.
- Stewart County Standard: 44 Year Anniversary of LBL Murders; FBI Finally Involved. By Levi Page.
- Murder At Land Between The Lakes Podcast. By Amelia Courtney and Lainie Sullivan.
- Find a Grave: Carla Sue Atkins
- Find a Grave: Vickie Lee Stout