Episode 13: The Murder and Haunting of Mamie Thurman
A century has passed since the roaring 20s, nearly a century since the Great Depression that shook the foundation of most American lives. It was a time of unrest in our country, a time of changing values and for Mamie Thurman the peak of her life as well as its tragic end would arrive.
On a rainy summer night in West Virginian, 31 year old Mamie Thurman walked out the door of the apartment she hared with her husband for the last time. Sometime in the late night or early hours of June 21st into June 22nd, 1932 a man drove Mamie to a remote mountain area. He slashed her throat and then shot her twice in the head before tossing her down the weedy embankment on the roadside.
Her death would spawn a year long media outrage, but the mystery of Mamie Thurman’s death persists to this day. It’s not merely her mysterious murder, something ore haunts the people near Logan Wes Virginia. The ghostly apparition of a woman wanders the isolated mountain road 22 Mine Road, the place where Mamie’s corpse was discarded nearly a century ago.
Resources:
Mysterious West Virginia Video on Mamie Thurman: Watch on Youtube
The Register Herald: Mamie Thurman Murder Still Surrounded by Mystery
Newspaper.com Archive - The Charleston Daily Mail, June 23, 1932
Newspapers.com Archive: The Bristol Herald Courier, June 29, 1932
Newspapers.com Archive: The News Leader, June 28, 1932
Newspapers.com Archive: Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Oct. 14, 1932.
Casetext: State vs. Stephenson
Interested in the Northern Michigan Asylum novel inspired by Mamie Thurman’s case? Check out Ashes Beneath Her here.