Cold case postponed

LISA HOBBS - News Editor

A man charged in a 22-year cold case did not have a trial date set on Wednesday.

Paul Alvin Adcock’s case was reset for Nov. 18. This was the 16th review of the case before Judge Larry B. Stanley Jr. since December 2019, when Adcock was arrested.

The 83-year-old man stands accused of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the Dec. 23, 1996, death of his mother. Lela Adcock lived on Rebel Hill Street. Her body was found after McMinnville Police Department responded to a request for a welfare check.

The case went cold and remained that way for 22 years until a joint investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the McMinnville Police Department, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office, and the Office of the 31st District Attorney General led to Adcock’s indictment by a grand jury on Dec. 4, 2019.

Adcock’s bond was set at $57,500, which he posted and has been out awaiting the conclusion of his case.