Southern Mysteries Podcast

Episode 154 The Curious Case of Condy Dabney

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On a sweltering day in August 1925, Mary Vickery vanished from Coxton, Kentucky. Several months later, her remains were found in an abandoned mine located just outside the town. A local taxi driver was apprehended, tried, and sentenced to life in prison for the teenager's murder. In the spring of 1927, a young woman appeared in Harlan County with information that could clear his name.

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Episode Sources

  • The Lexington Herald: Coxton Child Still Missing, August 30, 1925
  • The Harlan Daily Enterprise: Vickery Girl Still Missing, September 18, 1925
  • The Harlan Daily Enterprise: Dabney Caught: Now in Jail, March 5, 1926
  • The Harlan Daily Enterprise: Dabney Given Life for Slaying of Vickery Girl, April 2, 1926
  • The Atlanta Constitution: When Justice Triumphed, September 4, 1932.
  • Kidnapping, Murder and Mayhem: “She Rose from the Dead”, September 10, 2020.
  • The Messenger: Marie Jackson fails to know Mary Vickery, March 22, 1927
  • The Park City Daily News: A Woman Scorned, March 22, 1927
  • The Lexington Herald: Senate Bill Asks $5,000 to Repay Harlan Man for Erroneous Imprisonment, February 15, 1928
  • The Voice: An Act of Revenge, August 17, 1935
  • National Register of Exonerations: Condy Dabney
  • Edwin Borchard: Convicting the Innocent: Errors of Criminal Justice (1932)
  • FindaGrave: Condy Ulysses Dabney, 1895-1966 

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    Out of the Mines, courtesy of Ross Gentry, Asheville, North Carolina.

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