Prosector Jim StuttsNow that the man charged in the death of Vince Cole has been set free by a jury, the slain man’s family is determined that the true killer be brought to justice.
On Aug. 31, a Monroe County, Tenn., jury found Danny Adams, of Clinton, Tenn., not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in Cole’s death. On Wednesday, Cole’s sister-in-law, Patricia Williams, asked Monroe County grand jurors to indict Joshua Anderson, of Madisonville, Tenn., and charge him with shooting Cole to death and wounding Adams at a Tellico Plains, Tenn., campground in July 2009.
“We were led to believe for three years that Danny [Adams] instigated it, to the point that, if he had not done that, the shooting would not have happened,” Williams said in a telephone interview.
“We waited patiently for three years for the trial to happen. I had been told it would come out in the trial why Mr. Adams was charged and Mr. Anderson was not,” she said.
But on Aug. 30, during Adams’ trial, “it was brought to light that Danny should never have been charged and that Josh was not charged or even interviewed,” Williams said.