Meet Kinnie Wagner, a lesser known outlaw of the 1920s. Folk songs were written about him in the 1920s and he gained legendary status by escaping jail several times…even escaping the electric chair in Tennessee.

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Episode Sources

Scott County Historical Society: Kinnie Wagner, Scott County's Notorious Outlaw
Murderpedia: William Kenneth “Kinnie” Wagner
The Paris News: Bad Man of 15 Years Has Escaped Again, November 1, 1940
The Tennessean: Cowboy Desperado Defiant Under Death Sentence, May 15, 1925
Nebraska Daily News-Press: Tune Up That Guitar, Wagner’s Outlawing Again, November 29, 1940.
Kingsport News: Kinnie Wagner Died in Prison, March 10, 1958.
Kingsport Times: Thousands Flock to funeral Home to See Kinnie Wagner, March 12, 1958
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger: The Story of Kinnie Wagner, 7 part series. April 6-12, 1958

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

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Episode 155 Appalachian Outlaw Kinnie Wagner