https://www.register-herald.com/news/police_and_courts/guilty-verdict-returned-in-cold-knob-murder/article_de7db398-ec19-5322-8053-7300476cc30e.htmlBit of history with this view. A guy took his girlfriend and son (unrelated to girlfriend) up to the top of this mountain from Beckley, shot the girlfriend who maybe was threatening to leave him, and had the son help him bury the body.
Son testified against the father because otherwise the state was threatening to press charges against the son,
Someone searching for ginseng supposedly or something like that found the bones,
just a bit that haunted me from the article:
Thompson’s mother, Edna Mattox, testified earlier she raised all three of her daughter’s children. She described her daughter as a “free spirit” who received a monthly SSI check and often got “on great big highs” from drugs and alcohol.
