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You are here: Home / FEATURED POSTS / Carter County Man Charged with Murdering Mother

Carter County Man Charged with Murdering Mother

April 7, 2019 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

ELIZABETHTON – A joint investigation with Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and investigators with the Carter County Sheriff’s Office has resulted in the arrest of an Elizabethton man, charged in the death of his mother.

On April 6th, at the request of 1st District Attorney General Ken Baldwin, Agents and investigators were dispatched to 171 Reynolds Road in Elizabethton, after a caregiver reported finding a deceased individual there. The victim was identified as Edith Betty Ralph (DOB 03/03/1943). During the course of the investigation, Agents and deputies developed information that indicated the victim’s son, John Ralph, who lived at the same residence, was the individual responsible for her death.

John Ralph

Saturday night, John Christopher Ralph (DOB 10/14/1967) was detained and arrested by officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Marshals Service at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He is charged with one count of First Degree Murder and currently being held in the Clayton County (GA) Jail on a $1,000,000 bond while awaiting extradition to Tennessee.

Filed Under: Crime News, FEATURED POSTS, News

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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