On Sunday, October 21st, 1984, shortly after 10:00am Bobby E. Farris got in his roommate’s green 2-door 1973 Ford Torino with North Carolina plates and headed out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky for Nashville, Tennessee. Three of his fellow soldiers, including his roommate, had called Farris asking him to drive the car down to Nashville because their car had broken down in Nashville on their way back to Fort Campbell. According to these three men, Farris never arrived at the 7/11 on Gallatin Pike near Briley Parkway. Approximately seven weeks later, a couple of men who were out rabbit hunting on Monday, December 10th, 1984 found the body of Bobby Farris near Poplar Creek a half mile off McCory Lane. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and according to the timeline of the medical examiner, likely died the day he went missing. The Ford Torino was later located in Alabama in March of 1986 after it had changed hands several times. Farris was originally from Detroit before joining the Army to help further his education. Bobby E. Farris was 21 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Bobby E. Farris, 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
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