Mysterious Death of Crown College Preacher Boy

[Jerome]

Blake Smith was a junior at Crown College, a Fundamentalist Baptist school in Powell, Tennessee, that enrolls about 500 students.

He was found drowned in a creek, his crashed car a half a mile away with a concrete block on the accelerator. The sheriff has a theory about what happened:

knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/02/27/crown-college-student-disoriented-drowned-after-wreck/378083002/

Smith's cell phone was found inside his car, and authorities "don't know why he didn't try to call someone"

Family members previously said they suspected foul play in Smith's death due to the strange circumstances under which his car was found. When reached by phone early Tuesday afternoon, Smith's mother, Kim Smith, said she had just learned authorities closed the case and said, "I've still got to talk to them again," and, "It's so confusing to us still."