KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now doubling the reward in hopes of finding three people who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 2018. The reward has now been raised to $20,000.

Between January and March 2018, 47-year-old Bonnie Drane, 42-year-old William Inklebarger and 48-year-old Brenda Carroll were all reported missing in Knoxville. The three knew each other and were known to hang out and sometimes live together, and the FBI said none of them had a permanent home.

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The FBI said the three were also associates of a person of interest in their disappearance: Jeremy Jerome Hardison, who also goes by the nickname "Big County." Hardison is serving a life sentence in prison after he was convicted of murdering a man in East Knoxville in Sept.

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