At approximately 10:00am on the morning of Saturday, January 10th, 1976 officers responded to a report of a body lying in a field behind 1224 Martin Street. When they arrived they found Gertrude Johnson lying in the grass deceased. She had suffered from blunt force trauma at some point after 8:00pm Friday night. Gertrude Johnson was in her mid-60s when she died.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Gertrude Johnson, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
You can also call the Nashville Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Division anonymously at 615-742-7463
We feel it is important to put a face to the name. If you have a photograph you would like to submit to be posted (as an addition or substitution) please email: MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov