“The murder happened in her home, and she had to have known about it,” Robbie Fox, former Sevierville police chief, said on Snapped: Killer Couples, as Shayne Lovera claimed she was innocent. “There was no way for her to get around that.”
Two visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park stopped along a scenic lookout near Gatlinburg, Tennessee on Nov. 6, 1994, only to discover what appeared to be a car wreck down the mountain. But as police investigated, it quickly became apparent this was no tragic accident.
“Whatever happened, happened prior to going over the embankment,” Robbie Fox, former Sevierville police chief, said on Snapped: Killer Couples, airing Sundays at 6/5c on Oxygen. “We felt something was very wrong. The injuries were more severe than what you would normally see in that type of a vehicular accident.”
The dead man in the vehicle was identified as 33-year-old Kelly Lovera through his driver’s license and wallet. His wife, Alicia “Shayne” Lovera, had reported him as missing to law enforcement that morning.
port ruled his cause of death was blunt force trauma.
“He had been severely beaten with a blunt object to the head,” said retired TBI special agent David Davenport on Snapped: Killer Couples. “Like someone had really took some type of tire iron or bat or club to him and just beat him senseless. It was overkill. Somebody really wanted him dead because you can just feel that what happened to him was a personal thing.”
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