This post was based on a chapter written by N. Locklin and edited by Katie Leming (MC ’23) On Saturday, February 6, 1926, a new suspect was being held in connection with the Night Marauder attacks. The Knoxville Sentinel does not name him in their initial report, though he is later identified as Luther Jones.Continue reading “A New Suspect”
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Sheffey’s Lurid Past Revealed
For the most part, Sheffey proved to be remarkably unshakeable when cross-examination began the next morning, August 26. Attorney General Peace seemed intent on rattling Sheffey by first bringing up scandalous details from his past. The Johnson City Chronicle outlined how the “bespeckled young man” openly, though “not gladly,” shared tales of his romantic adventuresContinue reading “Sheffey’s Lurid Past Revealed”
The Investigator
Victor Jonas Hultquist is known to some as “the father of Alcoa.” The mayor of Maryville, Sam Everett, had welcomed the Aluminum Company of America to build a new site in what was then called North Maryville in 1914. Just a year after that, Hultquist was transferred from the company’s New Kensington site to overseeContinue reading “The Investigator”
The Poes
Warning: this post includes details of a sexual assault. Clyde Poe was just 21 in December, 1924, and he and his wife Lora had been married a little over a year. He was listed as a laborer, a “hard working farmer,” in Alcoa. Clyde and Lora lived with their four month old baby boy nearContinue reading “The Poes”
The Night Marauder Project 