At approximately 3:30am on Wednesday, September 20th, 1989 a K-9 patrol officer saw a 4-door silver 1985 Chevy Cavalier, with the driver’s side window partially down, on the side of Clinton Street near 12th Avenue under the I-65 bridge. He checked to see if the car was a stolen then did a visual check of the inside of the vehicle. When he saw blood inside the vehicle he opened the trunk and found the body of a deceased male. Roland E. Vandyk had been shot multiple times inside his vehicle and then placed in the trunk. His wallet had been taken and discarded near the railroad tracks and his camera had also been stolen. Roland E. Vandyk was 42 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Roland E. Vandyk, 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