The Disturbing Legend of Mamie Thurman
In the summer of 1932, the body of Mamie Thurman was found brutally murdered on Trace Mountain in Logan County, West Virginia. Her throat had been slit, her head beaten, and her body unceremoniously dumped off the hillside, her wedding ring still on her finger.
Mamie wasn’t just any woman in the coalfields. A 31-year-old churchgoer, socialite, and wife of a respected patrolman, she was known for her charm, her beauty, and her ability to float between the strict expectations of Logan society and the nightlife scene that simmered just beneath its surface. But as rumors of affairs, corruption…
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