#20 Heather Uffelman l Music City Murder

This episode of Music City Murder begins in Nashville but ends in Marietta (Atlanta), GA. It still counts as a Nashville true crime case, however, and the unsolved mystery of Heather Uffelman's death will send chills down your spine.

Sources:

• Unsolved Mysteries l Season 6 l Episode 20
• A Reddit Thread on /r/UnresolvedMysteries by /u/ElementaryFan

Show Notes:

• In September 1992, in Nashville, a local music video company ran two ads in the classifieds trying to sell the central processing unit and monitor for an Apple Quadra 950.
• • They put 22-year-old Jeremy Rolfs—a 22-year-old senior at Tennessee State University—in charge of the process.
  • One of the ads read ULTIMATE Power (ultimate in all caps): Apple Quadra 950 + plus some other details...$24,000 obo.
  • • I think this is the first mistake. Putting the price for such a huge and costly piece of equipment will draw criminals.
• On October 7, 1992, a man calling himself “Tom Johnson” called about the ad and said he was a freelance computer programmer
• Jeremy Rolfs even met up with this “Tom Johnson” to preview how the equipment worked.
• • Unfortunately, there were no other witnesses to this event, and so it went completely unnoticed.
• Since the destination was over 200 miles away, he decided to drive through the night, and his fiance, Heather Uffelman, joined him to keep him awake.
• At 1:30 AM on October 24, Jeremy and Heather set off for Marietta.
• • They arrived at the motel at 7:30 AM. Originally, they had been set up to meet at an industrial park.
  • • But “Tom” said the directions were so complicated that it would be better to meet somewhere else.
    • Since Jeremy had spent plenty of time wandering through industrial parks looking for unmarked addresses, he thought it was reasonable.
  • “Tom” said his business partner had the check and would be along in an hour, so the couple went to breakfast.
  • When they came back a half-hour later, “Tom” said he’d spoken with the business partner and he was on the way.
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