A Christmas Murder at Pulaski County Park
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | December 2022 Christmas 2022 has shaped up to be one of the coldest in Kentucky during the last half...
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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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Small Town Tragedy, Big Time Price. September 1947
The last execution case carried out for Pulaski County It has been a while since we posted a murder or mystery case, but we are back! We...
Hometown Heroes: Marshal Hiram Gregory
End of Watch: April 23, 1926 Burnside City Marshal Hiram Gregory was 49 or 50 years old when he was gunned down in 1926 while attempting...
Hometown Heroes: Marshal John C. Coomer
End of Watch: October 1, 1913 On August 18, 1913, an alleged moonshiner shot and killed a Burnside Councilman, John Fitzgerald, and...
Hometown Heroes: Sheriff Samuel Wilson Catron
End of watch: April 13, 2002 Today, our community looks back twenty years and mourns one of the greatest losses in recent memory. Those...
A Tiger by the Tail
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | April 2022 A Tribute April 13, 2022, marks 20 years since Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was killed in...
Hometown Heroes: Constable William F. Heath & Magistrate Andrew Jackson Beatty
End of watch: 1911 "Constable William Heath and Justice of the Peace Andrew Beatty were shot and killed while waiting to serve warrants...
Hometown Heroes: Constable William Bolton
End of watch: 1903 Camp Meetings in Mt. Victory By 1903 the Mt. Victory Camp Meeting had taken place annually for several years and was...
Hometown Heroes: Pulaski County Sheriff John McHargue
End of watch: 1891 The first on our list of fallen Hometown Heroes is Sheriff John McHargue. We don’t know if he was the first officer in...
Leaving Little Queen City
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | March 2022 Just a smalltown kid Noble “Red” Holt was born September 9, 1891, to Elizabeth “Bettie” Surber...
Dinner, Movie, and a Murder
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | February 2022 We have a doozy of a tale for the February Hometown Murders & Mysteries leading up to...
A Deed, a Divorce, and a Death
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | December 2021 We hope our friends, neighbors, clients, and casual readers enjoyed the Thanksgiving...
Hometown Murders & Mysteries Halloween Edition
Special Edition The Ghost of Fishing Creek - Pulaski Park Roads. It has been said, in years past, that folks driving up Fishing Creek...
Southern Ax Murder (Part 2)
Hometown Murders & Mysteries | October 2021 Part 2 Yesterday in Part 1, we learned that Thomas Hurd had been brutally murdered on July...
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...
Troubled Waters
Hometown Murders & Mysteries: September 2021 (Part 1 & 2) | September 2021 Figure 1 Part 1 of 2 By the time the 1950s rolled in, people...
Crime & Community Blotter - Somerset-Pulaski County: August 1921
Looking back 100 years! The articles and news bites in this blogpost examine the safety and security challenges our community and leaders...
Somerset In The News: August 15, 1924
LCTI will post snippets of local news and history from various reporting and research outlets to share with our community for the sole...
Review of the Glock Model 43 subcompact
By Michael R. Grigsby The Glock Model 43 is a subcompact version of the larger Glock Model 19 and the compact Glock Model 26, only with a...
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