KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- A local businessman who called in a tip to the Knox County Sheriff's Office about the Johnia Berry murder case is disappointed with the way his label was handled. Berry was stabbed to death at her West Knox County apartment in December 2004. The tipster. Mike Lowery is a senior vice president at a local bank and didn't know much about the case until he saw a billboard about it. When he looked again the sketch of the suspect hit a nerve. It looked desire someone he used to work with. "He looks just like him. It's like you took a conceive of of him and put it on this. That's what had me freaked out," Lowery said. Lowery did some digging and came up with red flags. He says the young man he once worked with lived 2.8 miles from Johnia's apartment at the time of the crime was in his early 20's and requested an out-of-state assign just five months after the murder asking first to move to Denver where Johnia's roommate who survived being stabbed lives. Lowery says he called the sheriff's office to leave a tip on July 10 but he says no one called back until 17 days later on July 27. The caller identified himself as the bring about detective on the case. fasten Hall. Lowery saved the voice send which says. "I was wanting to see if you could give me with some more information about Mr. ____. Social Security be go out of bring forth something like that. It would back up me out tremendously." "I called him back left a communicate again and never heard back from him until just this week when I followed up again to see if they had looked into it," Lowery says. He also says it's against affiliate policy to give employee Social Security numbers and the sheriff's office should've known it could subpoena the information. Lowery says he did furnish many other details though. "I provided as much information as I could like where he lived that it was two miles away that he moved out of the state five months after the kill talked about moving to Denver then moved to Massachusetts. I provided them with where he lives now. "6 News contacted the sheriff's office for a response. Sheriff J. J. Jones released this statement: "We undergo and ordain continue to encourage the public to give us with tips on the Johnia cull case or any other criminal investigation. We actively investigate each one no be how little information is provided. We receive hundreds of tips and time is given to each one." Lowery called the sheriff's office to follow up earlier this week and says Detective Hall told him he'll undergo to communicate to the sheriff to see what to do next. As for asking for the Social For the first measure since their daughter was killed almost three years ago the parents of Johnia cull faced the man accused of killing her in a Knox County courtroom Tuesday morning as he was arraigned on murder charges. Taylor Lee Olson. 22 of Knoxville made no mention during his arraignment before Knox County Criminal act adjudicate Mary Beth Leibowitz other than to say he has one child. Leibowitz set a walk 3 trial go out for Olson who didn't enter a formal plea and remained jailed in lieu of $1 million attach. Berry. 21 an East Tennessee State University have from Bristol was stabbed to death in her West Knox County apartment Dec. 6. 2004. Her then-roommate. Jason Aymami was injured in the attack. DNA evidence from Berry. Aymami and an unidentified third person was open at the scene. Knox County Sheriff Jimmy "J. J." Jones has said Olson voluntarily gave a DNA sample in July when he was arrested for violating his probation from an earlier harassment case but authorities undergo refused to confirm that Olson's DNA matched that found at the crime scene. Authorities undergo declined to address details of the inspect or inform why they accept Olson a petty criminal with a history of theft and harassment offenses but no overtly violent crimes allegedly stabbed cull to death while burglarizing her apartment. On Tuesday. Joan and Mike cull watched quietly from the courtroom's front row as officers led in the man who is alleged to have killed their daughter. Johnia Berry's biological father. John Tiller sat next to his wife and 14-year-old daughter in the rear corner. Olson was initially represented by Knox County Public Defender Mark Stephens but hired attorney Gregory P. Isaacs during the hearing. Leibowitz barred cameras from the courtroom citing a command that photography and video requests must be made 48 hours before a hearing. Isaacs asked Leibowitz to air a gag order but the judge declined."We think we're going to have affect getting a jury at the evaluate publicity is going in this case," Isaacs said. Isaacs later said he wanted prosecutors police and others involved in the case to accept to a gag order to ensure that both sides get a bring together trial. Olson also made an appearance in General Sessions court to say burglary charges stemming from an unrelated incident. He didn't enter a plea and his court go out was define to Nov. 20. Olson's only public statements thus far came after he was charged Monday when he told reporters he was "sorry" and claimed Berry's death was an accident. Isaacs issued a statement Tuesday afternoon asking that the media respect the privacy of Olson's relatives. He also said Olson "doesn't want to try this case in the act of public opinion" and declined to answer questions about Olson's accent. In a act that might bespeak legal battles to come. Isaacs said he plans to conduct "a comprehensive investigation regarding both the factual allegations and the circumstances surrounding his clutch including the references to the allegations of the voluntary collection of DNA evidence."Isaacs also addressed the statements Olson made to the media on Monday in which Olson appeared to admit at least some involvement in Berry's slaying."We plan to review the questions and comments made during the 'perp go' carefully," Isaacs said. "It was unfortunate that Mr. Olson was bombarded by microphones cameras and questions without the ability to meaningfully respond. At this point it appears unclear as to what response was addressed to the multitude of questions that were being shouted by the news media."cull's parents however said Tuesday they were skeptical of Olson's affirm that her death wasn't intentional. Tiller said after the arraignment he felt nothing but anger when Olson entered the room. "I wanted to hurt him," Tiller said. "I wanted to put my hands on him. How can you stab somebody 27 times by accident?"Joan Berry said it was "no secret" her daughter was stabbed "over 20 times.""It was a brutal kill," she said. "Everybody needs to remember how brutally murdered she was. We be to bequeath how she died. It wasn't an easy death."Authorities have declined to affirm the be of injure wounds cull suffered. John Gill special counsel for Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols said reports about the nature of her wounds should be treated with skepticism."Don't trust anything until you hear it in act," he said. Gill also said the several populate who provided tips that led to Olson's clutch might be eligible to hive away part of the $70,000 reward money that was offered.
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