Clancy Ray Adkins was a loving, doting grandfather who enjoyed nothing more than spending time with his four grandchildren. Although, things hadn’t always been so simple in his life… The last three years Mr. Adkins had been battling with leukemia, and things were looking up as he entered into remission and perhaps, just perhaps, he…
Category: Murdered
Barbara Jean Pauley-Hunt
Barbara was 21 years old when she was last known to be alive. On January 17, 1985, Barbara’s sister-in-law happened to see her as they were both walking along Main Street in Marion, Virginia. It was rather obvious that she was upset, as she was crying. At the time her sister-in-law wasn’t sure what was…
Leslie Diane Marty – Recovered
It was the 30th of July, 1983 in the riverside town of Parkersburg, West Virginia when 20-year-old Leslie Diane Marty was abducted at gunpoint and never seen again. At the time she was in a deteriorating relationship with a man named Mark Francis Hanna. Theirs was a liaison between frequent arguments and domestic violence, which…
James Lee Haynes
James Lee Haynes was a 32-year-old US Army Sergeant, who was from all accounts I’ve read, murdered and disposed of while attempting to deliver some Christmas presents to his mother and step-father in Saulsville, West Virginia on December 7, 1963. James and his wife lived in Baltimore, Maryland along with their three children. Their car…
Tammy Jean Daniel
On June 2, 1987, Norma and Jeff Hensdill picked up their daughter Tammy Daniel outside the El Cid Club in Beckley, WV at around 3:00 am. They drove her to her home in Stanaford, WV and dropped her off after trying to talk her into staying the night with them. She refused the offer and…
Mike Lowe
Mike Lowe, 50, was by all accounts that I’ve heard a genuinely kind and good-hearted man. He loved his family and although he had no children of his own he absolutely adored being an uncle, doting on and looking after any of his nieces and nephews. He even helped raise one of his nieces after…