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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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An Undocumented Serial Killer in Somerset? Possibly.
Hometown Murders and Mysteries | March 2023 Murder of a Somerset waitress February 1959 Mrs. Martha Franklin VanHook was born on December...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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