JAW GA News | Investigative Report
Nearly seven years have passed since Mickey “Adam” Tennison was found dead inside his Berrien County, Georgia, residence.
There has been no publicly announced arrest. No publicly identified killer. No prosecution bringing the case to a conclusion.
And according to information recently provided to JAW GA News, the investigation remains open.
Adam was 40 years old when his body was discovered on November 20, 2019. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office requested GBI assistance after Tennison was found dead at a residence on Harnage Road outside Nashville, Georgia.
The GBI’s November 22, 2019 release identified the residence as 454 Harnage Road and stated that preliminary investigative findings indicated Tennison’s death resulted from homicide, pending the final determination of the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office.
From the beginning, however, the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Adam’s body included an unusual detail.
According to contemporaneous reporting by WALB, a neighbor became concerned after Adam had not been seen. His primary transportation reportedly remained at the residence, and the residence appeared to be open.
A welfare check was requested.
But according to that reporting, deputies were initially sent to the wrong house.
Hours later, Adam’s brother went to the residence and discovered him unresponsive. WALB reported that blood was observed on Adam and on the floor.
That welfare-check issue does not establish that law enforcement caused Adam’s death, interfered with the investigation, or could have saved him. JAW GA News has obtained no evidence supporting any of those conclusions.
It does, however, create a legitimate timeline question.
Exactly when was the welfare check requested? What address was originally provided? What address was dispatched? When did deputies arrive at the incorrect residence? When was the error discovered? And how much time passed between the original request and the eventual discovery of Adam?
Those questions matter because the first hours of any homicide investigation can be critical.
THE INVESTIGATION EXPANDS
The Berrien County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the GBI’s Douglas Regional Office on the day Adam was discovered.
Two days later, the GBI publicly announced the investigation and identified the preliminary findings as indicating homicide.
Months passed without an arrest.
Then, on May 5, 2020, investigators took the case directly to the public.
The GBI, Berrien County Sheriff’s Office and Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office participated in a press conference concerning Adam’s unsolved homicide.
An anonymous donor offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
The surviving WALB report from that press conference provides important insight into where investigators believed the case stood at the time.
Investigators said several people associated with Adam had been interviewed. Evidence had been submitted for forensic examination. Possible motives had been considered, although investigators declined to publicly identify a motive while the investigation remained active.
Then came one of the most significant statements in the public history of the case.
GBI Region 4 Special Agent in Charge Jason Seacrist indicated investigators believed there were people within the community who possessed information capable of helping investigators identify the person responsible for Adam’s death.
That changes the context considerably.
Investigators were not simply telling the public they lacked evidence.
They were publicly signaling that they believed someone knew something.
THE FAMILY ASKED FOR ANSWERS
Adam’s brother, Eric Tennison, also participated in the May 2020 press conference.
The family’s message was painfully straightforward: they wanted answers about what happened to Adam.
Sheriff Ray Paulk publicly appealed for information as authorities attempted to move the investigation forward.
But the arrest authorities hoped would follow did not publicly materialize.
One year later, in May 2021, authorities again appealed to the public for information concerning Adam’s death. Contemporary reporting continued to advertise the $10,000 reward.
The passage of another year had apparently not eliminated investigators’ belief that information existed outside law enforcement that could help solve the case.
Then years passed.
THE CASE IS STILL OPEN
In 2026, JAW GA News sought records concerning the Tennison investigation from the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office.
The response provided by attorney Jennifer Herzog stated that the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation have open investigations concerning Mickey Adam Tennison.
Because the investigation remains open, records beyond material subject to disclosure were withheld under Georgia’s pending-investigation exemption.
That means something important.
Adam Tennison has not simply become a historical Berrien County homicide sitting inside an archive.
The case remains an active investigation according to the agencies responsible for it.
Yet nearly seven years have now passed.
JAW GA News has found no publicly announced arrest, indictment, prosecution or identification of the person responsible for Adam’s death.
That does not mean investigators have no suspect, no theory or no additional evidence. Information contained within an active homicide investigation can legitimately remain confidential.
It means the public record still ends with the same fundamental question:
Who killed Adam Tennison?
THE MISSING PRESS CONFERENCE
As part of our renewed examination of the case, JAW GA News attempted to recover the complete May 5, 2020 press conference.
WALB’s original article remains online.
The recording does not.
The surviving article establishes that WALB News 10 carried the press conference through Facebook and preserves portions of statements made during the event, but the complete original recording is no longer readily available through the article.
JAW GA News conducted searches for surviving copies, mirrors, reposts and other publicly indexed versions of the recording. At the time of publication, we had not located the complete video.
We have therefore contacted WALB News 10 and requested assistance locating an archived copy of the May 5, 2020 press conference, including any surviving Facebook Live recording, raw newsroom footage, broadcast copy or archived version retained by WALB or its parent company’s media archives.
If the recording can be recovered, JAW GA News intends to review the complete press conference against the known investigative timeline.
Not because an old press conference automatically contains some hidden confession or dramatic revelation.
Because exact words matter.
Statements made by investigators in 2020 can now be compared with what is known about the investigation in 2026.
THE ADDRESS DISCREPANCY
Our review also identified a small but notable discrepancy in historical reporting.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s November 22, 2019 press release identifies Adam’s residence as 454 Harnage Road.
Later reporting from WTXL identified the location as 494 Harnage Road.
Because the GBI release was issued two days after Adam’s death by an agency directly involved in the investigation, JAW GA News currently considers 454 Harnage Road the more authoritative public-source address unless official investigative records establish otherwise.
The discrepancy itself does not indicate wrongdoing. News reports contain mistakes. Government releases contain mistakes too.
It simply needs to be documented rather than quietly copied forward as fact.
RECONSTRUCTING THE FIRST HOURS
JAW GA News is particularly interested in reconstructing the timeline surrounding the welfare check and discovery of Adam.
The questions are straightforward.
When was concern for Adam first reported?
What information did the caller provide?
What address was entered into dispatch records?
Why were deputies reportedly sent to the wrong residence?
How long were they at that location?
When did law enforcement learn that they had responded to the wrong house?
When did Adam’s brother enter the actual residence?
When were emergency personnel notified?
When was the scene secured?
When was the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office notified that the death appeared suspicious?
When was the GBI contacted?
And who entered Adam’s residence before investigators established control of the scene?
None of those questions presupposes misconduct.
They are basic timeline questions surrounding an unresolved homicide.
SOMEONE MAY STILL KNOW SOMETHING
Perhaps the most important evidence available publicly isn’t forensic evidence at all.
It is what investigators themselves said.
In 2020, investigators indicated they believed members of the community possessed information capable of helping identify whoever was responsible.
That statement deserves renewed attention in 2026.
Seven years changes people.
Relationships end. Friendships collapse. People move away. Fear diminishes. Loyalties change. Individuals who refused to speak years ago sometimes reconsider.
Someone who believed a detail was insignificant in 2019 may understand its importance differently today.
Someone may remember an argument.
A vehicle.
A visitor.
A telephone call.
Something Adam said.
Something someone else said afterward.
Or something that simply didn’t make sense at the time.
One truthful piece of information can change the direction of a cold homicide investigation.
JAW GA NEWS IS REVISITING THE CASE
JAW GA News is beginning a renewed independent examination of the publicly available record surrounding the homicide of Mickey “Adam” Tennison.
Our work will distinguish documented facts from allegations, memories, rumors and theories.
We are interested in records.
Timelines.
Contemporaneous statements.
Dispatch information.
Official documents.
Archived reporting.
And firsthand information capable of being independently examined.
We will not publicly identify private individuals as suspects without substantial, verifiable evidence supporting such reporting.
We will not convert community rumors into accusations.
And we will not manufacture a solution simply because an unresolved homicide makes for compelling headlines.
Adam deserves better journalism than that.
His family deserves better.
And whoever killed him has already had nearly seven years without publicly facing justice.
The case remains open.
The questions remain open.
And somewhere between what happened inside that Harnage Road residence, what investigators learned afterward, and what members of the community may still know lies the answer to a question Berrien County has been carrying since November 2019:
Who killed Mickey “Adam” Tennison?
JAW GA News will continue following the evidence.
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