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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.
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.
Preacher Harry Powell is a serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. There he shares a cell with Ben Harper, who killed two men in a bank robbery for $10,000.
West Virginia, possibly others Harry F. Powers (born Harm Drenth ; November 17, 1892 – March 18, 1932) was a Dutch-born American serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia . Powers lured his victims through " lonely hearts " advertisements, claiming he was looking for love, but ultimately murdering them for their money.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland helped students place roadside signs in his Alabama community to try to reach others who might be ...
O. Jermaine Simmons, a well-known pastor based in Tallahassee, Florida, was forced to flee a house naked after a husband came home early to find him in bed with his wife.
Jefferson County, West Virginia: Roseanna McCoy: Irving Reis & Nicholas Ray: 1949 The Night of the Hunter: Charles Laughton: 1955 Moundsville, West Virginia [1] [2] Shenandoah: Andrew V. McLaglen: 1965 Hardy County, West Virginia: Holy Ghost People: Peter Adair: 1967 Scrabble Creek, West Virginia Teen-Age Strangler: Ben Parker 1968 Huntington ...