Oliver Vermillion was a wealthy man in the 1820s. He lived in the Thompson’s Ford area of Nickelsville, Virginia. Vermillion…

It was a mild and balmy May evening when services ended at Culbertson’s Chapel, in Nickelsville, Virginia. Everson “Red” Collins…

William Bales visited brother-in-law Burney Bayless, on October 4, 1908. He didn’t say a word as he entered the Johnson…

John Orr came home from work as usual on July 2, 1906. Unfortunately, things at home were not as usual.…

Dr. Isaac “Cam” Anderson, brother of Bristol’s Mayor Anderson, wedded Gate City beauty Mary Nelms, in October 1901. He moved…

One of the strangest multiple murders in Appalachian history happened on October 24, 1932. The town of Huntington, West Virginia,…

Kleptomania, which is the compulsion to steal for no reason, has always been a problem for some. The term was…

The proverbial “axe murderer” is a staple of urban legend. This villain has been the plot device for countless works…

Henderson Sage was a traveling showman who brought his “Magic Lantern Exhibition” to Gate City, in November 1884. A “magic…

One of the worst episodes of deadly incompetence in southwest Virginia was enacted by a group of men who called…