Logan Banner, Thursday, August 22, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson Now, 53 years and seven updated stories later, George Morrison, Mamie Thurman’s brother, telephoned The Banner from Arizona to say he had received a letter from “someone” who will not disclose their name,

Logan Banner, Thursday, August 22, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson Seventh In A Series The old Logan courthouse must have been a real site Monday, Sept.10, 1932, the day Clarence Stephenson’s trial started. The stately old southern courthouse, later torn down and replaced

Logan Banner, Wednesday, August 21, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part VI of a Series) It had been nearly three months since Mamie Thurman’s body was discovered atop Trace Mountain (now known as Holden 33 Mountain). Her neck was broken, two .38 caliber

Logan Banner, Tuesday, August 20, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part V in a Series) Just where is the legendary Mamie Thurman buried? Did someone try to blot out her memory, even to the point of hiding her burial spot? These are questions

Logan Banner, Monday, August 19, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part IV of a Series) Excitement was high in Logan County during the early days of July 1932. It was understandably so because it was about two weeks after the brutal murder of

Logan Banner, August 18, 1985. Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part Three of a Series) George Morrison, half-brother of Mamie Thurman, was simply trying to learn his family background when he first discovered he had a half-sister who died in Logan County in 1932.

Logan Banner, Sunday, August 18, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part Two Of A Series) The history surrounding the now legendary death of Mamie Thurman reads like a well-developed novel. For sheer drama, suspense and intrigue nothing anybody could have written would grip someone

Logan Banner, Thursday, August 15, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (First In A Series) From out of Logan County’s rowdy past comes the brother of a slain woman, not satisfied that justice was done. After a life-time, retired New Mexico lawyer George A.