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The Ghost That Convicted a Killer | Charleston News
A ghost’s testimony sealed a murder conviction in one of America’s strangest legal cases. In 1897, Edward Shue was convicted of killing his wife, Zona, after her body was exhumed based on claims from her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, who said Zona’s ghost told her Edward snapped her neck. The prosecutor took the spectral testimony seriously, reopened the case, and found the body’s neck broken and windpipe crushed. Shue’s trial lasted just eight days, and the jury convicted him in under an hour—even though the defense brought up the ghost story, the judge couldn’t stop the jury from hearing it…
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