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

Category: Appalachian crime

And he finally murdered her. Just murdered her brutally.

He was hanged in Moundsville. His head fell off when they hung him! They put him on the gallows, sprung the thing and his head flew off.

Few records of the Glen Alum [WV] payroll robbery exist, but in 1959 O.H. Booton, retired ‘Daily News’ writer, recalled the 1914 incident.

Frank James received a celebrity trial. A large cheering crowd greeted his train as it arrived at the Huntsville depot.

One of Noble County’s more baffling murder cases began on November 5, 1905, when the family of William Leisure found him shot dead.

This case is a one of a kind in the American judicial system … in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer!

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