Frasure was arrested soon after her death and a series of six trials ensued between 1915 and 1918. It was believed he murdered Kinney to hide the shame and disgrace of impregnating her. There were two hung juries and three guilty verdicts with life imprisonment. The final appeal was decided in April of 1918.
Robert S. Frasure Murder Trials Collection consists of research materials acquired by Lydia Justice Edwards during the process of writing a series of articles on the murder trials titled "Beautyville: Murder in my Family" for the Eastern Kentucky Voice in 2016.
Submissions from 1918
1918-03-12 Lawrence County Clerk's Records, Lawrence County (Ky.) Circuit Court
Submissions from 1920
Andrew J. May, Andrew Jackson May
Daughters of Sarah Jane Hall and Evan Silas Frasure, Evan Silas Frasure and Sarah Jane Hall
Kinney Family, Bazil Hatfield Kinney, Haley Frasure Kinney, John Kinney, Nance Kinney, Cat Kinney, and Mary Mahala Frasure
Olive Hill Attorneys, R. H. Paynter, Ben Cassity, Henry Woods, Jim Porter, Albert Counts, Ben Thompson, Thort Kennard, and Milton Erwin
Submissions from 1921
1921-07-06 Fleming Escapade May Clear Up a Hard Fought Case, Maysville Public Ledger
1921-08-05 Finding of Hatchet May Throw Light on Crime, Big Sandy News
Submissions from 1922
Olive Hill Citizens, Carter County (Ky.) Courthouse
Submissions from 1930
G. W. E. Wolfford, George Washington Elisha Wolfford
Submissions from 1933
Who Killed Stella Kinney?, Margaret E. Fultz
Submissions from 1940
G. W. E. Wolfford and Fred Vinson, George Washington Elisha Wolfford and Frederick Moore Vinson
Submissions from 1959
Local Ballads: Stella Kenney, Kentucky Folklore Record
Submissions from 1960
Death of Stella Kinney, No Author Listed
Submissions from 1962
Stella Kenney Ballad, Charlene H. Potter and Kentucky Folklore Record
Submissions from 1964
Killin', Jean Thomas1964
Submissions from 1989
Six Ballads from Eastern Kentucky: A Piece of Appalachian History, Hubert V. Crawford and Paul L. Crawford
Submissions from 1990
Carter County Courtroom, Carter County (Ky.) Courthouse
Garvin Ridge Road (Carter County, Kentucky), Garvin Ridge Road (Carter County, Ky.)
Hand Drawn Map of the Road between Elizaville and Beautyville, Charles Worthington
Submissions from 1992
1992-04-22 78-Year-Old Murder Still Haunts Family, Becky Walker and Olive Hill Times
Submissions from 2006
Stella Kenney: A Little Problem in Evidence, Richard H. Underwood and Journal of Southern Legal History
Submissions from 2015
Presentation Notes on What Happened to the People Who were involved in the Trials, Lydia Justice Edwards
Submissions from 2016
75 Men from Madison County, Lydia Justice Edwards
2016-01-29 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 1), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-02-05 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 2), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-02-19 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 3a)), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-02-19 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 3b), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-02-26 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 4), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-03-04 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 5), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-03-11 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 6), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-03-18 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 7), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-03-25 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 8), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-04-01 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 9), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-04-08 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 10), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-04-15 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 11), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-04-22 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 12), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-04-29 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 13), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-05-06 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 14), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-05-13 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 15), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-05-20 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 16), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-05-27 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 17), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-06-03 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 18), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-06-17 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 19), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-07-01 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 20), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-07-15 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 21), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-07-29 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 22), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-08-26 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 23), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-09-09 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 24), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
2016-09-23 Beautyville: Murder in my Family (Part 25), Lydia Justice Edwards and Eastern Kentucky Voice
Submissions from 2017
2017-12-10 Article on the 100th Anniversary of the Final Verdict, Lydia Justice Edwards