How a Wheeling Pastor Helped Catch a Serial Killer Will Wallace November 4, 2020 Reverend Herman Haas barely acknowledged what he saw that spring day in 1895. His parishioner, the newlywed Caroline Huff, had become severely ill and he was visiting her to lend some comfort. When he saw Carol...
Moundsville at the Movies: Penitentiary a Haunting Draw for Hollywood Cassie Bendel February 17, 2020 It’s cold. Not just cold, but a bone-deep chill that wraps around you until it feels like it’s crawled inside to keep itself warm. It’s dark. The can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face kind of dark where ...
‘Sister Robin’ – A Cold Case – Part 1 Steve Novotney August 20, 2016 6 (Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series examining the murder of Roberta Elam in Ohio County on June 13, 1977. The second chapter will be published one week from today.) Thirty-nine years, two...
The Night Nathan Brooks Canceled Halloween Steve Novotney October 31, 2015 21 (Publisher's Note: Please see my comment after the story for some thoughts from Weelunk's publishers. - Rochambeau) (Editor's Note: Kim Loccisano, veteran journalist for the Martins Ferry Times Leader, contr...
Murder 101: Public Must Assist Wheeling Police Steve Novotney October 18, 2015 1 He was from Cleveland, and so was his friend. And so were the people chasing him. From Cleveland, they were. There was a disagreement between the two transplanted groups, but law enforcement doesn’t know the...
The Wheeling Mob: Part 1 Steve Novotney March 14, 2015 33 THE BOSSES, BOOKIES, AND BURGOYNE (Writer’s Note: This is the first in a series of stories that will concentrate on the organized-crime scene in and around Wheeling during the past century.) Bill Lias orde...
