Homicide

Tennessee Man Charged with Murder, Accused of Burning Girlfriend’s Body in Refrigerator

Troy S.

August 8, 2025
Updated: August 8, 2025
5:39 pm

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OVERTON COUNTY, Tenn. (BFMG)— A man has been arrested in connection with the killing of his girlfriend, whose body was found last week in rural Overton County in a burning refrigerator authorities said.

The Overton County Sheriff’s Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said Edward Randolph, 48, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Hope Parrott, 47.

Hope reportedly left her phone, medicine, and vehicle behind at the home shared with her boyfriend and his sister.

An online Facebook group, Tennessee Missing and Unsolved, suggested her boyfriend’s sister reported the couple was visiting her when a loud truck of an unknown description picked Hope up on July 30th, 2025, the day Parrott’s family was initially told she was last seen.

Her boyfriend has since posted that he and Hope broke up roughly two weeks ago and that someone came and picked her up then.

A Facebook comment says Parrot was previously married to a law enforcement officer and correctional officer, Byron Parrot who has since passed away.

The remains of an unidentified female were entered into NamUs on Aug. 6, after authorities made the discovery on the side of Sunk Cove Road in Crawford, TN on Jul 31. There was extensive thermal damage to the body. The remains were transported to the Middle Tennessee Regional Forensic Center for examination. The results of the examination are currently pending

Authorities allege Randolph killed Parrott, placed her body in a refrigerator, and later set the appliance on fire.

Randolph was booked into the Overton County Jail on a $50 million bond and is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. Aug. 21. He will be prosecuted by the 13th judicial district of Tennessee.