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January 25, 2019 Judges / Kentucky

We shook hands with them all, including two held for murder

I have more than once heard a sheriff ask a mountaineer from some distant creek to inform a neighbor that he was under arrest.

When the Grand Jury met, he was not there to appear against me

“I went hunting with two men. The young man got killed out in the woods and the other man told evry body that I killed him.”

When we got even with the Whaley house, we left the river and went up the hollow to where the Whaleys lived. We stopped a short distance from the house.

July 5, 2018 Appalachian crime / Tennessee / Vigilantes

He wanted them put out of the way & would give one hundred dollars to kill them

The White Caps of Sevier County, TN, were a vigilante group formed to rid Sevier County of individuals (mostly women) whom they deemed lewd.

January 23, 2018 Appalachian crime / Ghost stories / Halloween / West Virginia

The Greenbrier Ghost

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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We shook hands with them all, including two held for murder

When the Grand Jury met, he was not there to appear against me

White Cap hired assassins on trial

He wanted them put out of the way & would give one hundred dollars to kill them

The Greenbrier Ghost