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A tourist town's quiet reputation is called into question in the A&E program City Confidential: Gatlinburg -- Smoky Mountain Nightmare. Gatlinburg sells its low-key Appalachian setting to visitors looking for a beautiful getaway. But, when two local motel workers are found bludgeoned and stabbed to death at the Rocky Top Inn in 1986, brisk business grinds to a halt. As it happens, it wasn't a roving madman but a gang of disgruntled hoodlums that took the lives of these locals. Edward "Tattoo Eddie" Harris took the share of the blame as a violent leader who bullied and beat his companions. Through the hard work of detective Bud Parton, Harris was brought to justice. A&E documents the lasting repercussions of the Gatlinburg murders.