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14-07-2025
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Remembering Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas' tragic death: Notorious Nashville
Rob Bironas, architect of several of the most memorable moments in Tennessee Titans history, died in a tragic, single-car drunk driving accident on Sept. 20, 2014. He was 36 years old. According to toxicology reports obtained by The Tennessean at the time, Bironas' blood alcohol content was .218% at the time of his death, well above the legal limit of .08% that's permitted for operating a motor vehicle. Police concluded Bironas was traveling 73 mph, more than double the speed limit of 35, before losing control of his vehicle on Battery Lane, striking a tree, turning the car over and ultimately ending up in a creek bed. Advertisement The events surrounding Bironas' final night were perplexing. In the hour before his crash, Bironas displayed erratic behavior on the road by confronting two other vehicles, reportedly trying to sideswipe or chase the vehicles off the road and, according to one passenger who encountered Bironas that night, threatening to kill him and his fellow passengers. At this point, the witnesses say, Bironas was driving at speeds in excess of 100 mph in a residential area near the Wedgewood neighborhood. The first set of passengers who Bironas confronted said they had to drive away from him at upward of 110 mph to elude him. Bironas' wife discovered he wasn't at home sometime after 9:30 p.m., and called police to notify them he was missing at 11:40 p.m. Unfortunately, Bironas had already crashed by that point. His vehicle turned over at 11:01 p.m. Bironas, 36, was taken by emergency personnel to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Bironas was the Titans' kicker from 2005-13 and still ranks as the second-leading scorer in Titans/Oilers history with 1,032 points. His 24 kicks made from 50-plus yards are the most in franchise history and his 60-yard game-winning kick against the Indianapolis Colts on Dec. 3, 2006, still stands as the longest made kick in franchise history. On Oct. 21, 2007, Bironas made NFL history by making eight field goals in one game, a feat that had never before been achieved and has yet to be replicated. When Bironas retired, his 85.7% career made field goal percentage was the third-best in NFL history. Melissa Sanders of Nashville takes picture of the memorial for former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas at his funeral at the Woodlawn Roesch-Patton funeral home in Nashville on Sept. 25, 2014. Bironas, 36, died on Sept. 20 in a single-vehicle crash. Several of Bironas' Titans teammates and coaches attended his memorial service, including special teams battery mates Brett Kern and Beau Brinkley as well as Kerry Collins, Jake Locker, Michael Griffin and Jason McCourty. Advertisement Bironas was buried on Sept. 25, 2014. The Tennessean is publishing a Notorious Nashville story for each year from 2000-2024. Catch up on the series here. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Reflecting on Rob Bironas' tragic accident: Notorious Nashville
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30-06-2025
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Janet March ruled dead, focus turns to husband: Notorious Nashville
The news exploded like bombshells in a bouquet of bombshells. A Nashville attorney was found civilly liable in January 2000 for the death of his artist wife, after she disappeared from their Forest Hills home. A judge ruled Janet March was dead (even though her body had not been found) and Perry March owed her parents and children $113.5 million in damages for her wrongful death. The bombshell headlines didn't stop there. Perry March defied a court order and took his and Janet's elementary school-aged children to live in Illinois. Then, he took the children to a tiny town in Mexico, trying to keep them away from their maternal grandparents, Carolyn and Larry Levine. Then in June 2000, the grandparents hit back. They got a court order in the United States and got their grandchildren out of Mexico by picking them up from a schoolyard, which a Mexican court would later find illegal. Welcome to the March murder case. One headline: March says wife had cocaine problem Another headline: Grandparents charged with kidnapping And another: In Sad But Compelling March Tale, More Twists Arguably, the March case was the most sensational true crime story in the history of Nashville. There were rumors that Perry March had an affair, that Janet March wanted a divorce and that Perry's father was involved in her disappearance. There were rumors Perry March rolled his wife's body in a carpet and kept it in the Forest Hills house for a time before dumping it. Janet March's body still has never been found. There were legal fights over millions of dollars in court fees. There were lawsuits and counter lawsuits. In 2003, the wrongful death judgment was overturned. The Levines, who had taken the children home to Nashville from Mexico, were ordered to give them back to Perry March. Did the bombshells end there? No. In 2004, a Nashville grand jury indicted Perry March in the murder, his first criminal charge in the eight years since Janet March went missing. He was arrested in Mexico (where he had remarried and was working as a financial consultant), he was extradited to Tennessee and the grandparents were given custody of the children. An inmate in a Davidson County jail said Perry March asked him to kill his in-laws. The bombshells kept coming. In 2006, Arthur March, who is Perry's father, confessed to helping his son dump Janet March's body somewhere near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was not able to lead police to the body. Arthur March agreed to testify against his son in return for a reduced sentence. Ten years after Perry March said his wife had left him, he was convicted of her murder. Not only was Perry March sentenced to 56 years for the second-degree murder of Janet March, he was also convicted of conspiracy to commit the murders of Larry and Carolyn Levine. In December 2006, Arthur March died in federal custody before his sentence was imposed. The story, however, will never die. The Tennessean is publishing a Notorious Nashville story for each year from 2000-2024. Catch up on the series here. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Janet March went missing in 1996, Perry March said she left
