1776
Originally called Laurel Gap when it was first settled in 1776.
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FILE 478 / 23 March 2024 / 72 MIN / express
it's in northeastern tennessee in that panhandle that comes out of the northeastern part of tennessee, about an hour from knoxville about 0:03:52
Originally called Laurel Gap when it was first settled in 1776.
about 0:04:37First called Bailey Town as two words, then one word.
about 0:04:49The w was dropped in 1915, leaving Baileyton.
about 0:04:56Named after two brothers who lived there, Claudius and Thomas Bailey.
about 0:05:03Originally called Laurel Gap when it was first settled in 1776.
about 0:04:37First called Bailey Town as two words, then one word.
about 0:04:49The w was dropped in 1915, leaving Baileyton.
about 0:04:56Named after two brothers who lived there, Claudius and Thomas Bailey.
about 0:05:03"430"
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"$36,875"
Comparison: "about half the national average". Direction: below.
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"$156,800"
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5.0 / 5 · average of 1
“The reviewer grew up there, says everyone is extremely nice and helpful, likes that everything is close (five minutes from Baileyton school, eight from North Greene), and would like a volleyball net added to the Baileyton park area; otherwise a nice place to park and hang out.”about 0:05:53
Baileyton, Tennessee, has about 430 people and sits in the north-eastern panhandle of the state, an hour from Knoxville. Six young people from eastern Kentucky made it a stopover on the way to New Orleans.
Her parents divorced when she was nine, and she later said an uncle and a cousin abused her from five to ten. By fifteen she was using alcohol, cannabis, LSD and PCP. Testing put her IQ at 78. She left school at sixteen and was drawn to witchcraft, using a Ouija board and automatic writing.
At five she learned that her father was not her father but Roger Burgess, a Pikeville police officer. She smoked by five, had bulimia by the sixth grade and was diagnosed with severe depression and bipolar disorder. She panhandled in New Orleans, then returned to Kentucky calling herself a vampire.
In April 1997 the group took room seven at the Collie Motel in Pikeville, burned 666 into the carpet, stole a television and boots, then broke into two Paintsville homes and took a 9mm and a .25-calibre pistol.
At the rest stop was the Liljelid family: Vidar, 34, a Knoxville hotel bellman from Norway; his wife Delphina, 28, a New Jersey native whose parents were from Honduras; and their children Tabitha, six, and Peter, two. They were returning from a Jehovah's Witness assembly in Johnson City. Vidar approached the group to preach. The van left the interstate at the next exit and turned onto a secluded road.
The accounts differ. Shots followed. The prosecution said the parents were laid on their backs with the children over them in the shape of a cross, and that the van was driven over them deliberately. A neighbour, hearing shots and what sounded like a party, called police.
The bodies were found about 260 feet from the abandoned Citation. Vidar had been shot six times, Delphina eight. Tabitha was shot once in the head and died after being pronounced brain dead. Peter, shot in the eye and chest, survived.
The group drove through Georgia and decided on Mexico, leaving a Waffle House when police arrived. Refused entry at the border for lack of identification, they got in anyway. Mexican authorities searched the van and sent them back.
A hostile crowd met them at their first court appearance.
Peter Liljelid spent seventeen days in hospital, then went to a rehabilitation centre. He moved to Sweden with family, was doing well in 2007 and was still there in 2017. In 2019 he moved to the United States to work in information technology, married Caitlin in 2020 and settled in Stamford, Connecticut. He lost an eye and has lasting neurological damage and no memory of the attack.
April 1997 / an Interstate 81 rest stop near the Baileyton, Tennessee exit
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