Infamous and Intriguing Kentucky Sagas

[75center]

The Pearl Bryan murder was huge in it's day.

[cathbird]

Johnny Boone and the Cornbread Mafia. Still on the run from the law.

 

[formerkywrestler]

The Story of Hal Mark Cobb:

 

For the last year the police had waged a national search for Mr. Cobb, a former minister in Lexington, Ky., who was wanted on charges that he electrocuted his wife 10 years ago. Mr. Cobb had told the police at the time that the couple's cat had knocked a hair dryer into the bathtub as his wife, Lisa Cobb, bathed.

Fugitive Gives Up to Face Homicide Charge - NYTimes.com

 

This link has more detail.

 

On a personal note, right after I was born my Mom and Dad rented this house from him. My first bath's were taken in the bath tub where he murdered her...

[formerkywrestler]

A Message from Ray the D.A. - Issue: #34

 

Cobb was a minister of music at the Southern Acres Christian Church in the early 80's in Lexington. He had been living a double life since he was a child, marrying and becoming a minister, while also being homosexual and sneaking out to gay bars at night.

 

...On the morning of the murder, Cobb obtained an extension cord and, when his wife was in the bathtub, he dropped the hair dryer into the water, causing her to be electrocuted. He had been covering the murder by claiming the cat knocked the dryer in the water by accident. Coleman told a detective of the Los Angeles Police Department about Cobb's confession and the journal record

[CincySportsFan]

When my wife and I started dating, she was going to Georgetown College. She told me about the "Tent Girl"...a young, unidentified woman who was found dead in the late 60's. They finally were able to put an ID to her through DNA testing in the late 90's I believe.

[UKFan10]

Victim's Sister Haunted by Slaying a Year After FBI Agent Confessed : Crime: Susan Smith's family, believing her death was motivated by more than an unwanted pregnancy, is pursuing further investigation. - latimes

 

FBI agent Mark Putnam killing Susan Daniels Smith in Pikeville, and burying the body in the mountains. Was the first FBI agent convicted of murder, not sure if there have been any more since. There was also a TV movie based on the story, Betrayed by Love.

[se7ens]

Steve Nunn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[LRCW]

The sudden and mysterious disappearance of one time BGP Heartthrob CheerNbHappy

@theguru will go to his grave with that secret.

[Wireman]

This isn't one of great Kentucky lore (yet) but I'm still very intrigued by the pawn shop killer case in Danville.

[se7ens]

http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/697/930945/6_May_1970_reduced.pdf An interesting one from the UK campus.

[se7ens]

I've also been both creeped out and intrigued by the 1998 Murray State dorm fire.

[The Professor]

On 4/22/2015 at 7:32 PM, B-Ball-fan said:

The Donald Harvey Case...The serial killer nurse who claimed to have killed 87 people. His crimes were committed in both Ohio, and Kentucky.

 

Donald Harvey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Donald Harvey is from my home county, Owsley. I knew his parents, who were good people.