In 1896, Elva Zona Heaster met and married Edward Shue, a drifter who had just arrived in Elva’s hometown of Greenbrier, West Virginia, to work as a blacksmith. In less than a year, she would be dead and buried and her killer undiscovered but for her appearance as an apparition to her mother, who persuaded the prosecution to use her daughter’s ghostly testimony at a trial where Shue was convicted.
Today we tell that story.
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