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Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. [a] (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) [3] was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. [4] He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Eddie Lee Sexton was born near rural Logan, West Virginia to a family of coal miners. His father was a part-time Baptist preacher. His father was a part-time Baptist preacher. In 1963, he committed armed robbery of a gas station the day after marrying his pregnant 15-year-old girlfriend.
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.
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.
Harry Powell is a fictional character in Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, known as "Preacher". He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation, and by Richard Chamberlain in the 1991 TV movie. Preacher was voted 29th on the American Film Institute's top 50 villains of all time list.
Mississippi jail break - live: Fugitive seen in Texas as another dies in burning house after murder of pastor Graeme Massie and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar April 27, 2023 at 12:10 AM
Oct. 24—SOUTH POINT — A West Virginia man was arrested and charged with felonious assault and attempted murder after he stabbed South Point Elementary School principal Bill Christian on ...
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.