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Leonard Woods was a 30-year-old Black miner who lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.Jenkins was a new company town in Letcher County, built to accommodate the workers of the Consolidation Coal Company, or Consol, which was opening mines on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky, and had managed to get the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to extend its line to serve its needs.
[1] [2] They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, reportedly including Charley Guthrie, father of the folk singer Woody Guthrie. [3] The Associated Press reported that Laura was raped. [a] She and L. D. were then hanged from a bridge over the North Canadian River ...
Winchell's parents testified during the hearing, describing him as a loving, compassionate man who enjoyed the Army and wanted to become a helicopter pilot. [10] Fisher pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice, one count of providing alcohol to a minor, and three counts of false swearing and was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison.
An Illinois man has been found guilty of killing his mother because prosecutors say he didn't like that she was dating. A jury found 46-year-old Neil Howard of Troy guilty of first-degree murder ...
Retired detective Craig Robison explained in a new interview how a re-run of ‘The Dating Game’ led to Alcala’s arrest Officer Who Arrested ‘Dating Game Killer’ Says This 1 Thing Is What ...
Savannah Chrisley said she's dating Robert Shiver, whose ex wife Lindsay Shiver allegedly hired hitmen to kill him in the Bahamas. Here's waht o know.
John Hartfield was a black man who was lynched in Ellisville, Mississippi in 1919 for allegedly having a white girlfriend. The murder was announced a day in advance in major newspapers, a crowd of as many as 10,000 watched while Hartfield was hanged, shot, and burned. Pieces of his corpse were chopped off and sold as souvenirs.
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — A Muncie man has been fired from his job as an officer at the Henry County jail and charged with battering an inmate. Curtis Lavon Doughty, 27, is accused of shooting a ...