At approximately 2:30am on Tuesday, July 1st, 1980, police received a call of a person lying in the street. When officer’s arrived, they found Shirley Morrison lying near her vehicle, a blue and white 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass, at 115 McKinley Street. She had been severely beaten and was deceased. Shirley Morrison was 42 years old at the time of her death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Shirley Morrison, 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