Steve Epperly, A Local Legend
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > Appalachian Folklife Archive
- Subject
- Appalachia
- Oral histories--Appalachia
- Folklore--Appalachia
- Hall, Gina Renee, 1961-1980
- Epperly, Stephen Matteson, 1952-
- Murder.
- Creator
- King, Nicole
- King, Gordon C. Jr.
- Martin, Dorothy H.
- DuBose, Marsha
- Stovall, Brack
- Hayes, Bob
- Type
- text and audio
- Coverage - Temporal
- 1999
- Date
- 1999-11-30
- 2020-10-05
- Identifier
- 199.446.7.pdf
- Language
- english
- Publisher
- Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center. Radford University
- Archives & Special Collections. McConnell Library. Radford University
- Description
- In this project, Nicole King conducted interviews to gather information about the murder of Gina Hall. Ms. Hall was a student at Radford University in 1980 and was last seen with Stephen Epperly, who has been charged with her murder. Mr. Epperly is the first person in Virginia to be convicted of murder without a confession, a body, or an eyewitness. Ms. Hall’s body has never been recovered. For this project, Nicole King interviewed her grandfather, Gordon King Jr, who lived near and knew Stephen Epperly. She also interviewed other people who know Epperly, and people who were in the area at the time of the interview. This is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.
- Rights
- All rights are reserved by the original creators and their informants, excepting those expressly provided in a permission form on file in the Archives offices. Content is available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of Radford University, is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections website for more information.
