More than two years after she was found bleeding on a rural road in McMinn County, Diamond Natasha Young’s death remains unsolved, and investigators are looking for information that leads to a break in the case.
Sheriff Joe Guy said Young, 24, was never able to tell investigators what happened before she died a week after she was found April 23, 2023.
Young was found in the 200 block of County Road 725 by two Volunteer Public Service Units that reached the scene first, authorities said in 2023. Barry Toomey and Chris Nunley rendered aid until Young was taken to a regional hospital for treatment of her injuries. She died April 30, 2023.
Guy said there had been little new information in the case, and investigators need something to go on to explain Young’s death.
“We have let this be reviewed by other agencies, by a forensics team in Knoxville. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s looked at it,” Guy said, “and so we’re looking at all possibilities and getting input from other agencies to come to some sort of explanation. This is one that just kind of nags at you a little bit.”