Tips help solve 100s of felonies thanks to all our supporters |
Here is how a typical felony case is solved thanks to CrimeStoppers’ tipsters (and our supporters):
April 19, 2022. Two people are shot at Nana’s Market, 3004 Overton Crossing, following a disturbance. The victims are transported to the hospital and survive their injuries.
April 25, 2022. A tip comes to CrimeStoppers advising that one Derrick Harvey is responsible for the shootings. Police further develop Harvey as a suspect and he is positively identified. A warrant for his arrest is issued for attempted murder, reckless endangerment and other charges.
April 27, 2022. Another citizen, aware of the fugitive warrant, contacts CrimeStoppers and provides an address in Frayser where Harvey can be found.
April 28, 2022. Harvey is arrested by the Shelby County Fugitive Apprehension Team without incident at the address provided by the tipster. A month later, two citizens receive cash awards for their help.
Now your help is needed.
The suspect was identified and arrested — as in hundreds of felony crimes each year — because CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County exists to help authorities in the pursuit of justice and to help keep Memphis safer. CrimeStoppers can perform this service day after day because individuals, businesses and foundations support the work we do, which includes about $100,000 in cash awards each year.
One way we are supported is through our fundraiser, the CrimeStoppers Night At The Theatre. This event returns this month after two years silence during the Covid-18 pandemic. The show this year is A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, musical by Dan Regan, at Playhouse On The Square Friday June 24. A reception and dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the show opens at 8.
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Please consider helping us this year. Tickets are $75. Sponsors can buy tickets to see the show, or they can pay to send a police officer and a guest to enjoy the night of good food and entertainment.
Because some of our business supporters — including Presenting Sponsor The Dillard Companies — help pay our costs, ticket sales add to the cash awards we are able to continue paying throughout the year.
Tickets are available here. Or send a check to CrimeStoppers at 600 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 451, Memphis, TN 38105.
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Two families post extra awards
in recent and in cold case homicides
A case from last month
Mallory Morgan, 27, was in her car getting ready to park outside her Midtown apartment building early in the morning of May 12, 2022 when someone approached on foot. After the suspect said something, shots were fired into Morgan’s car. The car rolled a short way and hit a parked car.
When police arrived they found her in the car. She died at the scene of the Tuscany Midtown Place Apartments, Poplar and Williamson.
Her family has posted $18,000 for information leading to an arrest. With the usual $2,000 from CrimeStoppers in homicide cases, a tipster can make $20,000 in cash.
A case from 48 years ago
It was a Wednesday evening on October 16, 1974 when the Memphis Fire Department summoned Memphis Police to a grass fire near Fields Road and Hicky Street in southwest Memphis. Below the burning debris firefighters had discovered a female body.
The body later was identified as Gloria P. Johnson, 19. She had been reported as a missing person 10 days earlier. Her death was ruled the result of multiple stabbings.
Now her family has posted $8,000 in the cold case to match the CrimeStoppers award of $2,000 for a total of $10,000.
The Memphis Police Department’s Cold Case Unit is actively investigating this case from nearly 50 years ago.
Any witness or anyone with information they learned about the crime and person or persons responsible are asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274), or to contact the PD homicide case hotline at 3563-2653.
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CrimeStoppers here offers a series of Cold Case files for public consideration. To provide a tip call or test CrimeStoppers: 528-CASH (2274).
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Donations of any size are welcome. Checks made out to CrimeStoppers may be sent to our offices at 600 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 451, Memphis, 38105, or visit our website to make a secure donation now.
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CrimeStoppers
by the numbers
From July of 2021 to April 30 of this year CrimeStoppers received a total of 3,353 tips. Of those 171 tips provided information that helped authorities make 184 arrests in felony crimes. Each of the 171 tipsters was awarded cash.
The total of tips was nearly 1,000 above the same period from the previous year — a 38 percent increase, and a 13.25 percent increase in tips that successfully ended in arrest warrants.
“We are thankful our numbers have gone up as we have climbed out of the pandemic,” said E. Winslow (Buddy) Chapman. “It is always vital that citizens
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Trust Pays
by the numbers
Two loaded guns were found and removed from local schools thanks to good students who used the CrimeStoppers program Trust Pays during April.
One incident happened at Scenic Hills Elementary School where a third grader confessed to bringing his aunt's Baretta handgun to school and hiding it.
At another school, authorities uncovered an automatic weapon with 11 rounds of ammunition in it. It was removed thanks to another student who didn't want illegal guns at school.
Awards were issued in both cases.
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To review all the tips data for the year, visit this page on our main website:
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Websites continue
to build awareness
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CrimeStoppers and its many programs are explained - and the public is engaged - in various places on the internet
The newest site in our stable puts new light on cold cases. Take a look at -
Our main website explains the organization's purpose, and keeps count on major cases in which police need help from citizens -
A companion site helps students keep their schools safer - trustpays.org
Senior citizens who are afraid or otherwise need help can find information they can use at another site - seniorbsafe.org
Because the theft of copper and other metals has become a major problem in the metro area we launched CopperStoppers -
Now the public can view the list of current fugitives, including photos on our newest site -
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