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Final defendant pleads in kidnapping case involving stolen drugs, pipe bombs, suicide

What do a woman kidnapped over allegedly stealing drugs, a man fatally shooting himself in the head, and two pipe bombs have in common? The answer is a 2018 kidnapping that started in Tennessee and ended in Corbin. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe...
Posted On 29 Sep 2021

Whitley County man pleads guilty to kidnapping

A Corbin man, Douglas M. Edmonson, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier, to kidnapping. According to the investigation and his guilty plea, Edmonson and his three co-defendants lured a victim to a location in Tennessee, using an unrelated party’s...
Posted On 27 Sep 2021

Feds indict trio of Corbin residents, Jellico woman for kidnapping

A federal grand jury in London has indicted three Corbin residents and a Jellico woman for kidnapping in a 2018 case that also involved two pipe bombs and the death of a Corbin man by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. On Thursday, the federal grand jury indicted Douglas...
Posted On 06 Sep 2019