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The 1976 Mason County jail bombing was a suicide bombing that took place at the Mason County Courthouse in Point Pleasant, West Virginia on March 2, 1976. Five people, including two perpetrators and three law enforcement officers, were killed in the attack, and a further 11 people were injured.
James E. Childers (February 8, 1964 – June 2, 2009) was a confessed American serial killer and arsonist. On June 1, 2009, he sent a package of letters and a two-hour long recording to the police station in Clarksburg, West Virginia, which contained his confessions to at least five murders and four arsons.
On December 8, 2020, in Williamsburg, West Virginia, United States, 25-year-old Oreanna Myers shot and killed five children, aged between one and seven, with a shotgun before setting her house on fire and committing suicide. Myers was the biological mother of three of the children, and the stepmother of the other two.
Nov. 27—Victims have now been identified in a murder-suicide that left four people dead in Sampson County on Sunday. Sampson County Sheriff's officials said an apparent domestic dispute ...
A former minister and his wife have been charged after victims revealed more than 60 instances of sexual abuse and assault in Lewis County that happened more than 20 years ago.
Terry Michael Ratzmann (April 29, 1960 – March 12, 2005) [1] was an American mass murderer who killed seven members of a Living Church of God (LCG) church congregation at a Sheraton Hotel in 2005 in a religious hate crime [2], in Brookfield, Wisconsin, before committing suicide. Prior to the shooting, he had been a member of the church.
A former pastor has been charged with the cold-case murder of an eight-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to Bible camp nearly 50 years ago.
The Devil All the Time is the debut novel by American writer Donald Ray Pollock, published in 2011 by Doubleday.Its plot follows desperate characters in post-World War II Southern Ohio and West Virginia, including a disturbed war veteran, a husband and wife who are serial killers, and an abusive preacher.