The Unsolved Murders of Chynna and Blake Dickus

In the middle of the day, a young boy and his stepmother were brutally murdered in their own home, but who is responsible for their deaths?

Jennifer Baldwin
4 min readSep 23, 2021
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A home should be a safe haven for a family. It’s a sanctuary where a family can feel at peace from the outside world. It isn’t a place that someone should invade and take over, and a home isn’t a place where someone should feel unsafe, but that isn’t always the case.

The Dickus Family

Sean Dickus was the divorced father of a young son, but he soon found love again in his new wife, Chynna. Chynna was a wonderful mother to her ten-year-old stepson, Blake. Blake resided with his mother Christina in Franklin, Indiana.

In order for Sean and Chynna to be closer to Blake, they moved from Tennessee and bought a new home in a subdivision in Franklin. They had only lived there a month, but they enjoyed being closer to Blake and getting to spend more time with him.

The Last Lunch

On July 24, 2006, Blake was finishing up a week-long visit with his father and Chynna. He had plans to go home a bit earlier in the day, but Chynna had called his mother, Christina, and asked if he could stay later to have

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Jennifer Baldwin

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