Murder & Mystery in Southwest Virginia

By Greg Lilly

Murderous Mountains and Deadly Hollows

After the Civil War and before the emergence of interstate highways, Southwest Virginia witnessed numerous violent crimes ignited by heartache, resentment, intimidation, and, of course, money and whiskey. Murdering with indifference, Talton Hall, the Devil from Troublesome Creek, claimed to have killed ninety-nine people. Justice caught up with him in Norton when he gunned down a police officer. Samuel Newberry decapitated his brother's new wife then burned her head in the morning stove. A sixteen-year-old Roanoke girl was discovered beaten and strangled in her church's kitchen; her killer was Eagle Scout and church choir member Buddy Scott.

Spanning the region and the decades, author Greg Lilly shares thirteen captivating true crimes that show how murder was local and personal and how justice doesn't always prevail.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467170623
• ISBN13: 9781467170628
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 140 Pages