At a time when justice was rarely granted and the legal system was severely flawed, a murdered woman’s ghost made sure her killer was punished.
23-year-old Elva Zona Heaster was unexpectedly found dead near her Livesay’s Mill, West Virginia home in Jan. 1897. While her husband, Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue, claimed it to be a natural death caused by heart failure, Heaster’s mother, Mary, always alleged that her daughter was murdered.
