True Crime Stories

In my last blog I discussed the issue that when outgoing governor, Matt Bevin left office in Kentucky in late 2019 he commuted a lot of sentences and issued pardons. There was huge controversies surrounding them and there was indications that the FBI was looking into several of them. It was said that a majority of them were low level drug crimes but there were a few that stuck out.... this is one of them. On the night of March 12, 1991 sixty year old Charles Westerfield opened the door of his Owensboro Kentucky home and saw a man dressed in a surgical suit. The man opened fire on Westerfield as he daughter (I was not able to determine how old she was) stood nearby. He would die from his injuries. Charles Westerfield worked at Southwire Rod and Cable Company in nearby Hawesville Kentucky. He also had only what I could find as described as a “side business.” His partner in this business was Irvin Edge who also worked at Southwire. Authorities would later say that ...

On June 25, 2006 Owensboro Kentucky resident Calvin Stoudt called 911 saying he had returned home from church to find his wife, forty-six year old Corrine dead in their home. The investigation into the crime uncovered secrets that many among friends and family of Corrine had not been made aware. When Corrine met Calvin she lived in Illinois. Her parents lived in Owensboro and after a painful divorce her father introduced her to Calvin. The two seemed to hit it off very well, at least at first and Corrine moved to Owensboro. Like Corrine, Calvin too was divorced but while she believed Calvin had only been married once before it would later be discovered that Corrine was his fourth wife. Over the years the marriage started deteriorating. For Corrine it didn't help when her parents left Kentucky and moved back to Springfield Illinois, some four hours away. Corrine had always been very involved in her church and over their years together this is one thing ...