BOYD COUNTY, KY (WOWK) – Officials in Kentucky now know the identity of a John Doe found murdered in Boyd County in 2020. According to the Boyd County Coroner’s Office, the deceased male known as the “EastPark John Doe” has been positively identified as 26-year-old Zachary Tyler Pearson of St. Albans, West Virginia. The coroner’s […]
CATLETTSBURG Ashland Police made a gruesome discovery last week when they found the decomposed corpse of a woman stuffed between the bed and wall of a convicted drug trafficker.
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EDITORâS NOTE:âThis story is one of two in a subseries. The second piece will appear in Mondayâs edition. This subseries is part of a large-scale, ongoing series that will include features related to the opioid crisis.
ASHLAND About a half-dozen people have died from suspected drug overdoses over the last week and a half in Boyd County.
These were sons, daughters, men and women who were once children filled with the wonder of the world. Somewhere along the line â whether they were born with it or developed it over years of abuse â addiction reared its ugly head and tore their lives apart, robbing them of joy, purpose and eventually their very breath.
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EDITORâS NOTE:âThis story is one of two in a subseries. The second piece will appear in Mondayâs edition. This subseries is part of a large-scale, ongoing series that will include features related to the opioid crisis.
ASHLAND About a half-dozen people have died from suspected drug overdoses over the last week and a half in Boyd County.
These were sons, daughters, men and women who were once children filled with the wonder of the world. Somewhere along the line â whether they were born with it or developed it over years of abuse â addiction reared its ugly head and tore their lives apart, robbing them of joy, purpose and eventually their very breath.