Johnny Cash's great-niece found fatally stabbed in Middle Tennessee house
3/20/2014COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities in Middle Tennessee say the great-niece of singer Johnny Cash has been found stabbed to death and stuffed in a box in a house.
Putnam County Sheriff David Andrews said Thursday that Courtney Cash’s body was found Wednesday morning.
Andrews said Cash’s body was found in a large chest. A man identified as William Austin Johnson, Cash’s boyfriend, was being treated for stab wounds at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Andrews said the pair had gone out with a friend before an altercation took place in the house where Johnson and Cash lived with their young child. The friend, identified as Wayne Gary Masciarella, has been charged with first-degree murder.
Andrews said Johnson escaped the attack and took the child with him before driving to the hospital.