KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The East Tennessee man convicted of raping and murdering 7-year-old Paula Dyer in 1985 is dead. Billy Ray Irick was executed by means of lethal injection the night of Aug. 9. His ...

Death row inmate Billy Irick was arrested in 1985 and convicted in 1986 for the murder and rape of 7-year-old Paula Dyer. This timeline highlights milestone dates in a case that has now spanned more ...

Nashville — Thirty-three years after he raped and killed a little Knoxville girl, Billy Ray Irick took his last, loud breaths in Tennessee’s execution chamber. And I watched. As a WBIR journalist, I ...

Billy Ray Irick, the death row inmate executed by the state last week, should not receive an autopsy because it would violate his religious beliefs, a Nashville judge ordered. Irick sued to block the ...