Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Appalachian crime

President McKinley’s assassin and the Charleston connection

One of the most enduring stories in the history of West Virginia crime concerns the identity of the assassin of President William McKinley.

Pickens County SC’s most famous outlaw, and in his time, the nation’s best-known bad-man, is coming back to The Oconee Community Theatre.

On that Sunday evening in 1927, one-armed deputy Chap Osborne approached the vehicle he had just stopped, with his gun drawn.

Ann Johnson believed she deserved more from life than to work in a general store owned by her husband, Cornelius, & live in the backwoods.

In 1912 Devil Anse’s son Willis demanded pharmacist EO Thornhill write him a whiskey prescription. Thornhill would not. Hatfield shot him.

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