The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Collins lying in pools of their own blood with a gunshot thru the temple of each head was the sight that greeted two night policemen who entered the Collins home at 104 North Russell Street about two thirty o’clock Tuesday morning. Continue reading
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After four days of intensive searching in an abandoned strip-mining area, dotted with mine shafts, caves and water-filled pits, divers recovered the bodies of two Marion brothers Thursday afternoon. Continue reading
Sometimes people just don’t end up where you think they will in life. It might be argued that such was the case of 1957 Marion High School graduate Alan D. Kuhn. Continue reading
The following is a series of articles appearing in the Marion Daily Republican involving the murder of Cecil Jenkins in May 1970, one of a number of unsolved cold cases in Marion, Illinois. Continue reading
Milo Erwin’s “History of Williamson County”, published in 1875 details the first murders occurring here and types of crime in the county up to about 1874. … Continue reading