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Elderly Couple Savagely Beat on Sunday Night

December 28, 2009

image Rutherford County Sheriff Detectives are looking for tips in the Sunday night home invasion of a Floyd Road couple’s house. During the invasion, an elderly veteran and his wife were viciously beaten and left bound by a pair of robbers.

Cecil Story, an 86-year-old veteran of both World War II and the Korean conflict, and his 93-year-old wife, Edna, were both beaten about the face and head by two men who knocked on their door late Sunday night in Eagleville.

Story, who was a navigator on B-29 bombers and C-46 cargo aircraft during both wars, received broken facial bones in the attack and was transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for advanced treatment.

Mrs. Story, who weighs less then 90-pounds, was beaten around the head, and received a deep laceration to the bridge of her nose from being hit in the face with her glasses on. She also had deep lacerations to her wrists from the nylon rope used to bind the couple to chairs in their own kitchen.

It took Mrs. Story about 15 minutes to free herself from her bindings and call for help after the robbers left the scene.

Because of blood covering their faces and the damage to her eyeglasses no good description of the violent felons is available.

The robbers made off with no more than about $100 which was in Story’s wallet.

Anyone with information about this crime is urged to call Detective Steve Kohler at 615-904-3046 or email him at skohler@rutherfordcounty.org or contact dispatch at 615-898-7770.

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Written by Michael Lansing · Filed Under News 

Comments

5 Responses to “Elderly Couple Savagely Beat on Sunday Night”

  1. Ed on December 28th, 2009 1:32 pm

    Sickening. Forget arresting them. Like any rabid animal, they need to be shot on sight.

  2. Pete on December 28th, 2009 1:44 pm

    Wow, you’ve got to be a really ‘tough guy’ to beat up a 93 year old woman. If these pukes are ever found, rather than have some wimp judge convict them of 10th degree possible theft misdemeanor, or some such normal nonsense, how about they get released? Say, to the town square? At a predetermined time. And have the police go patrol HOV lanes during this time? (and we all know how much THAT cuts down on crime). It’s said that “God doesn’t make mistakes”….not so sure about that. He ‘created’ these two pukes, and then didn’t shield the defenseless elderly couple against them. Hopefully, the victims will heal physically with a minimum of pain; psychologically, they will have a tougher time.

  3. R.R. on December 28th, 2009 3:29 pm

    This is just terrible. How can anyone do such a horrible thing? I don’t know these people but my heart and prayers go out to them. Hopefully soon they will find the creeps that did this to those poor people.

  4. Old Bill on December 28th, 2009 11:31 pm

    These two punks are welcome to come try their act at this old man’s home. Mr. Remington and I would welcome them with open arms.

  5. Kat@Cam on December 30th, 2009 5:12 pm

    My prayers go out to this couple dearly. I also would like to thank Glenn Climer bail bonding & associates for steppin up and offerin a 1000 dollar reward to catch these criminals . Also the dnj has a good write up about this local bonding company .

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