3 men indictments for murder in body dumped in Whitfield County
NASHVILLE (WDEF) – Three men are behind bars, charged with killing a Middle Tennessee man, whose body was found in North Georgia.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says Hector Ruiz, Kevin Palacio, and Roberto Viera-Aybar were all indicted, charged with one count each of first degree murder.
They’re accused of killing Luis Lopez, of La Vergne, and disposing of his body.
The T-B-I says it starting investigating this case in January of last year, after Lopez’s partially-burned body was found in a wooded area near Dalton by a boy.
Investigators later discovered that Lopez was killed in Davidson County.
Ruiz is being held in the Davidson County Jail, where he already was on unrelated charges.
Palacio and Viera-Aybar are in a Georgia jail right now, waiting to be brought back to Nashville.
Here is our story from February of 2017.
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