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Security Matters Blogspot
Each month we dig deep into Pulaski County's past to learn more about violent crimes that impacted our society. We select a murder or a mystery and tell the story in our Hometown Murders & Mysteries blogposts below. We also blog about products that interest us and happenings in our local community.
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The Great Yarb Doctor from Tennessee
They called him the Yarb Doctor. A man of strange brews and stranger talents. Part Choctaw, part rumor, all shadow. He arrived in Pulaski...
jrgrigsby
6 days ago1 min read
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The Ferguson Medicine Man
Less of a Mystery and More of a Curiosity Photos Courtesy of Rod Zimmerman, Somerset, KY In the early 20th century, just outside...
jrgrigsby
6 days ago1 min read
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Swear No Lie: An Oath Signed in Blood
In 1922, honor carried a loaded gun. Image of James Franklin Todd and the 1st National Bank On a cold February morning, the quiet rhythm...
jrgrigsby
7 days ago2 min read
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Whispers in the Valley: The Legend of Soules Chapel
Some places don't fade. They wait. Photo by MR Grigsby Just four miles outside Somerset, Kentucky, nestled in a quiet hollow where the...
jrgrigsby
7 days ago1 min read
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No Time for Mercy: Greasy Creek Justice
A Hometown Murder. A Vanished Child. And a Justice Carried Out in the Shadows. It was a quiet December afternoon in 1908 when...
jrgrigsby
7 days ago2 min read
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Deadfall Hollow: The Wraiths in the Well
A forgotten well. A whispered warning. And a secret not buried deep enough to stay hidden. Pulaski County, Kentucky—summer, 1880. The...
jrgrigsby
7 days ago2 min read
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The Natives of Pulaski County
Original Image: ©k Svensson | Adobe Stock • Post Image Design: jrgrigsby Happy (almost) November! For me, fall is a time when nature...
jrgrigsby
Oct 28, 202313 min read
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An Undocumented Serial Killer in Somerset? Possibly.
The Murder of Martha VanHook — February 1959 Original Image: ©breakermaximus | Adobe Stock • Post Image design: jrgrigsby She was a...
jrgrigsby
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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A Christmas Murder at Pulaski County Park
A dead-end road. A call in the dark. And a meeting that would end in blood. Original Image (gun): © ef art | Adobe Stock | Image...
jrgrigsby
Dec 30, 20222 min read
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Small Town Tragedy, Big Time Price. September 1947
The last execution case carried out for Pulaski County Image: ©MR Grigsby | LCTI Publishing • Post Image Design: jrgrigsby In the...
jrgrigsby
Nov 21, 20222 min read
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A Tiger by the Tail
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | April 2022 Original Image: ©shaiith | Adobe Stock • Image Design: jrgrigsby A Tribute April 13, 2022,...
jrgrigsby
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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Leaving Little Queen City
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | March 2022 Image: ©Unknown | Adobe Stock • Post Image Design: jrgrigsby He was just a small-town boy...
jrgrigsby
Mar 18, 20222 min read
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Dinner, Movie, and a Murder
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | February 2022 Original Image (The Virginia): ©David Rogers • Original Image (gun & rose): ©MrWirot |...
jrgrigsby
Feb 1, 20221 min read
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A Deed, a Divorce, and a Death
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | December 2021 Image: ©Kirly Lis | Adobe Stock • Post Image Design: jrgrigsby In late 1937, Eliza...
jrgrigsby
Dec 8, 20211 min read
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Southern Ax Murder (Part 2)
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | October 2021 Original Image: ©CLShebley | Adobe Stock In the summer of 1938, Pulaski County was humming...
jrgrigsby
Oct 15, 20211 min read
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Southern Ax Murder (Part 1)
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | October 2021 This month our story takes us back to the beginning of a new millennium to the late 1930s. We...
jrgrigsby
Oct 14, 20218 min read
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Troubled Waters
Hometown Murders & Mysteries: September 2021 (Part 1 & 2) | September 2021 Figure 1 By the mid-1950s, Pulaski County was humming with new...
jrgrigsby
Sep 10, 20211 min read
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