Around 4:00pm on February, 22nd, 1982 officers responded to a call for a welfare check at 4926 Salem Drive. They weren’t able to contact their friend Ruby Lynn and were worried about her. When officers entered the house they found Lynn lying in a spare bedroom of her house. Based on the medical examiner’s report and witness statements, Lynn was believed to have been killed on Saturday, February 6th, 1982. She had suffered multiple stab wounds and her throat was cut. Ruby C. Lynn was 68 years old at the time of her death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Ruby C. Lynn, 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