Horror In The Hills

Hensley is a speck of a town in McDowell County in southern West Virginia, a coal county that had 99,000 people in 1950 and 19,000 by the time of this story, with 42 people left in Hensley itself. Paul David Thompson, 34, was born in Davy, West Virginia, to Lydia and Jess Thompson, and worked for the Gilbert Lumber Company. He lived in a trailer in nearby Westchester with his wife Elizabeth and their daughter Debrasu; two of his children, a daughter and his son Paul Jr., had already died. Thompson had epilepsy and took Valium for it.

On 16 February 1988 he argued with his wife, then went out into the front yard of the trailer and fired his shotgun into the air. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it There was a third man in the car. Thompson handed out Valium to the others and they drove around for more than an hour drinking beer and taking pills.

They stopped at the house of Johnny Cook in Fanrock, where people were drinking. this part of the story is covered for now The two left and drove towards Thompson's trailer. On the road they met Elizabeth and Debrasu, and the cars stopped. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Driving Brooks back later, he stopped at the top of Hensley Mountain to urinate. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She and her daughter drove there and found Thompson face down across the rails, his trousers around his ankles, with a gash on his head and blood on the ground. He was still alive and gurgling. The people who found him first had gone to call for help, and while they were away a train ran over him and killed him.

this part of the story is covered for now Around midnight Trooper Smoot interviewed him and noticed blood on his trousers and boots. details of the account remain covered until revealed He spent seven hours in custody before seeing a magistrate and was then taken to the Welch emergency hospital with a bruise on his chest and a freshly ruptured left eardrum. He said Smoot, Trooper Steve Cox and a civilian, Doug West, had beaten him. Two statements he made that night included an admission that he was an accomplice, which he later said was beaten out of him.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Brooks told Smoot about the jack, and the jack was found where the car had stopped. Smoot reported blood and hair on it, though forensic examiners found none. The medical examiner ruled that Thompson died from the train, but that the laceration over his right ear was inflicted before the impact and that the position of the body was inconsistent with a seizure.

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