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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.
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.
Monroe County, West Virginia: A Killing Affair: David Saperstein: 1986 Logan County, West Virginia: Act of Vengeance: John Mackenzie: 1986 Charleston, West Virginia: Matewan: John Sayles: 1986 Mingo County, West Virginia [1] [5] [4] [3] Chillers: Daniel Boyd: 1986 Kanawha County, West Virginia: Big Business: Jim Abrahams: 1988 Fayette County ...
Virginia Tech shooting: 2007 Apr 16 Blacksburg: Virginia: 33 including the gunman 23 Wounded, 17 by gunfire. Westroads Mall shooting: 2007 Dec 5 Omaha: Nebraska: 9 6 injured; perpetrator committed suicide with the murder weapon after 6 minutes of shooting. Geneva County shootings: 2009 Mar 10 Geneva and Samson: Alabama: 11 including the gunman ...
The pastor of a Market Common church announced his wife’s death to the congregation, pointing to her mental health issues. ... The 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline is 1-800-273-8255 or ...
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.
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.
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.