Byron Edwards: The Knoxville Timeline
A family’s concern and the dated public accounts.
Abstract
NamUs MP90772 lists March 20, 2022 as Byron Edwards’s Date of Last Contact in Knoxville. Its brief narrative says he had not been seen since that date.1
Case Record
Knoxville Police Department case 22-010519 carries March 23, 2022 as its report date. The entry supplies no detailed account of the last encounter.1
Family Perspective
Gwendolyn Ducre’s WVLT report, published April 2, 2022 and updated September 1, records concern from his mother, Nicole Hamilton, and his grandmother, Marilyn. His grandmother described him as devoted to family and said it was unusual for him not to call. Their words convey the absence felt at home.2
Reported Family Accounts
Molly O’Brien’s June 1, 2023 WATE report quotes grandmother Marilyn Hamilton recalling their regular calls and church plans. Cousin Shakita Turner described the strain of not knowing and asked for community attention. These are attributed family accounts, not independent observations of his departure.3
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you clarify what the March 23 report entry records while preserving the grandmother’s relative account of calling police the following day?1,3
Can you separate a reported phone location from an observation of Byron? Keep dated accounts and their limits in a Research File in Almost Solved.2
Show later developments and reported outcomes
Later Search Accounts
Ducre’s updated report attributed a Riverside-area phone ping to police and recorded multiple searches by September 1. A phone location is not itself an observation of a person.2
O’Brien reported an earlier phone ping at View Park Drive and quoted police describing unsuccessful searches. That June 2023 account does not establish his fate or the case’s present status.3
Scope and Method
Present outcome unverified.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP90772; reviewed November 2026.
- Gwendolyn Ducre, WVLT, April 2, 2022; updated September 1.
- Molly O’Brien, WATE, June 1, 2023.