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The sisters were lifelong residents of Clarksburg, West Virginia, two of four children born to Italian immigrants Salvatore and Maria Audia Buttafusco.. At age 15, Gramma married schoolmate Frank Musci (1913–1988), taking a cab ride during school hours from Clarksburg to Oakland, Maryland to be married before a Justice of the Peace.
Reta Phyllis Mays (born June 16, 1975) [2] is an American serial killer who murdered at least seven elderly military veterans over a span of eleven months, between July 2017 and June 2018, by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin while she was employed as a nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Medical Center, in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Ronald A. Fragale (August 3, 1950 – August 7, 2024) was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 41st District from 2000 to 2014. He served as Speaker Pro Tempore .
Bumgardner moved back to West Virginia after his football career and started a job as the deputy sheriff to his mother, who was the sheriff in the Clarksburg area. [17] He later was hired as the treasurer and sheriff of Marion County, West Virginia before becoming a U.S. marshal overseeing 32 counties in the northern part of the state in 1965. [18]
Crutchley was born the youngest of three children into an affluent family in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on October 1, 1946. [1] His parents were William “Bill” Crutchley Sr. and Mildred Burnside. According to Crutchley, his mother was distraught over the loss of her eldest child, Donna June Crutchley (August 17, 1931 – February 2, 1945).
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.
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.
Possibly born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1763, or on the South Branch of the Potomac River where his parents had moved before 1770, Lewis was the son of Mary Bonnet (1735–1805; daughter of Jean Jacques Bonnet, Flemish Huguenot) and John Wetzel (1733–1786; indentured servant emigrant from Germany's Palatine region or Friedrichstal, Baden, Germany).