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train cook peers through bullet hole window in robbed B&O train 1949

The Great B&O Train Robbery

Willie Davis, train cook, peers through hole in diner window made by bullet from bandit’s gun in the Great Train Robbery of 1949.

JB Marcum shot by Curt Jett pen & ink illustration

March 8, 2017 Feuds / Kentucky

Curt Jett, the wild dog of the mountains

Curt Jett shot US Commissioner J.B. Marcum at almost the exact spot at the Breathitt County Courthouse where he’d shot James Cockrill.

Arthur Stout was found guilty of second degree murder and Inez Palmer with first degree murder in April of 1927. They both were sentenced to life terms.

Sheriff Maude Collins and confiscated stills

November 30, 2016 Appalachian crime / Ohio

Double murder in Vinton County, part 1

Sheriff Maude and Deputy Cox returned to Axtel Ridge the next morning to search the Stout’s farm for any trace of William Stout’s body.

September 11, 2014 Appalachian crime / Geneaology / Georgia

Finding Out The Truth – A Rude Genealogy Surprise

Gary Greene discovers some genealogical skeltons in the family closet. A story of the White Caps of Sevier County, TN.

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The Great B&O Train Robbery

Curt Jett, the wild dog of the mountains

Double murder in Vinton County, part 2

Double murder in Vinton County, part 1

Finding Out The Truth – A Rude Genealogy Surprise