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Moonshiner Sutton Ends Life to Avoid Prison
The widow of famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin Popcorn Sutton says he killed himself to avoid an 18 month federal prison term for illegally producing spirits and gun possession. Sutton, 62, grew up in Haywood County North Carolina and lived in Cocke County Tennessee. The History Channel and Johnny Knoxville had highlighted his life as a rural icon.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Marvin
Sutton
Haywood County
N.C
Cocke County
Likker
History Channel
Ted Olson
East Tennessee State University
Department of Appalachian Studies
Johnny Knoxville
Jackass
South
Georgia