Erasmus Stribbling “Edward” Trout Shue
BIRTH 1861
Mount Solon, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 13 Mar 1900 (aged 38–39)
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
White Gate Cemetery
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA
The wife of Edward Shue is known as The Greenbrier Ghost, her death in 1897 was presumed natural until her spirit appeared to her mother to describe how she was killed by her husband Edward. Autopsy on the exhumed body verified the apparition's account. Edward, found guilty of murder, was sentenced to the state prison. Only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer.
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