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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.
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.
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 film follows several characters whose stories weave together in two small towns, one in Southern Ohio and the other in West Virginia, during the period from the end of World War II to the 1960s. It features an ensemble cast that includes Tom Holland , Bill Skarsgård , Sebastian Stan , Robert Pattinson , Riley Keough , Haley Bennett , Eliza ...
The wife of an Oklahoma pastor gunned down in his bed in the middle of the night is now charged with hiring his killer – a man the couple had had sex with. Oklahoma pastor’s wife and their ...
Troopers with the Weston detachment of West Virginia State Police began an investigation into Radcliff on Oct. 28 after he was arrested on sexual abuse charges in Nicholas County in September and ...
Mayfield had served as youth pastor at Gowensville for six or seven years, a church official said. He was fired after his arrest May 27 on the Greenwood charge, church officials said.