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In the final years of his legendary life, Popcorn Sutton put his wife up on a pedestal – and on the catwalk above the 2,500-gallon pots where his moonshine was being distilled. It’s only fitting the woman the notorious moonshiner was sweet on learned to stir the sugar. “He made the best moonshine this side of the Mississippi, and I don’t care what anybody else says,” Pam Sutton told Knox News. “A lot of these so-called moonshiners would come and buy it from Popcorn and take it back home and sell it as their own and tell people they made...

Moonshiner 'Popcorn' Sutton laid to rest; widow blames government DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Originally published 06:42 p.m., March 18, 2009 Updated 06:42 p.m., March 18, 2009 U.S. Marshals Service Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton Popcorn died as he lived, daughter says Johnny Knoxville interviews Popcorn Sutton Moonshiner's death being probed as likely suicide KNOXVILLE - Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white lightning, his widow says.