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  • Famed moonshiner kills self to avoid jail

    03/19/2009 6:02:38 AM PDT · by Vigilantcitizen · 112 replies · 3,879+ views
    AJC ^ | March 18, 2009 | AP
    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — 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. “He couldn’t go to prison. His mind would just not accept it. … So I credit the federal government for my husband being dead, I really do,” Pam Sutton told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday from the couple’s home in the Parrottsville community, about 50 miles east of Knoxville.