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Eighty Years Ago: The ‘Hog Lot’ Murder Case

On Tuesday, September 25, 1945, these men, most looking west on the Valley Road (West Virginia Route 34), were not assembled on this knoll to admire the pleasant rural scenery. They were there to dig up the body of Pearl Martin Amos, who had been killed by his wife on September 6, 1945. Mrs. Amos had shot her husband in the head and cut off his legs to make the body fit in a grave…