The first CHOMO to be put on death row under new law

In August 2024, Finnegan was convicted of the gruesome murder of Jennifer Paxton,

whose body he stored in a freezer in his Oak Ridge apartment. Finnegan was convicted of

eleven (11) counts following a jury trial in that case. He was sentenced to death for the murder

of Jennifer Paxton and received an additional forty-five (45) years related to other crimes

committed against Jennifer Paxton. Since that time, Finnegan has been housed on death row at

Tennessee’s Riverbend Maximum Security Prison.

In all of these crimes, Finnegan had a co-defendant, Rebecca Dishman. Dishman earlier

entered a plea in the case of the murder of Jennifer Paxton as well as a plea involving the

separate case of raping the two children. She had agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of

Finnegan and testified against him in the murder trial. Dishman has since been housed in a

Tennessee Department of Correction prison.

Both Dishman and Finnegan had been transferred from the State prisons to the Anderson

County Detention Facility in anticipation of them both appearing in the rape trial that was

scheduled to start today. Both will be returned to their respective prisons.

In August, 2020, Rebecca Dishman fled the home she shared with Finnegan while

seeking domestic violence help and shelter. Her report triggered an investigation by the Oak

Ridge Police Department, the 7h Judicial Crime Task Force, the Tennessee Bureau of

Investigation and the District Attorney General’s Office. That investigation revealed Paxton’s

frozen body and ultimately the evidence that Finnegan and Dishman had raped the two children

and video recorded at least portions of the crime.

Upon the entry of today’s plea, District Attorney General Dave Clark remarked, “today’s

plea recognizes the additional crimes Sean Finnegan and Rebecca Dishman committed against

these young victims. They deserved justice just as Jennifer Paxton did. This also marks the end

of a long saga in investigating and prosecuting Finnegan and Dishman that has occupied our

office and law enforcement in our community for years. We have dedicated our professional

lives to making days like this happen; to hold the guilty responsible for what they have done and

to prevent them from harming anyone else. I am grateful in this immediate case for the work of

Assistant District Attorneys Sarah Keith and Meredith Slemp who led the prosecution in these

rape cases along with all the police officers, investigators, agents and other staff who worked to

bring Finnegan and Dishman to justice.”

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