On Saturday, August 6th, 1988, a group of people driving on Sawyer Brown Road noticed a body on the side of the road under the I-40 overpass and called the police from a market after trying to flag down passing motorists. George Thomas Buchanan had suffered a fatal gunshot wound and had been partially concealed with branches. George Thomas Buchanan was 55 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of George Thomas Buchanan, 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