Overview

• Deputies found a seven-month-old girl abandoned in a car seat on a stranger’s front lawn in Dyer County during extreme heat.
• Authorities discovered four family members in Lake County hours later and have now classified their deaths as homicides.
• Investigators credit a sheriff’s office Facebook post with identifying the abandoned child within 30 minutes.
• The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, FBI and U.S. Marshals are coordinating with local sheriffs in an active search for motive and suspects.
• Officials say such a quadruple homicide is rare in rural western Tennessee and have urged anyone with information to come forward.