Washington Post is highlighting a WVA ghost story today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/31/halloween-ghost-story-time-an-apparition-helped-convict-murderer/
And that was it. She was put in a casket and taken to her mothers home for the funeral, during which Trout Shue remained inconsolable, jealously preventing anyone from getting near his wifes body, according to Katie Letcher Lyle in the magazine Wonderful West Virginia.
But a month after the burial, the town began to talk. Her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, had been telling people that her daughters ghost was visiting her at night.
The ghost said she had been murdered.
Eventually, Heaster went to the prosecutor. She said that over a period of four nights, her daughters ghost appeared before her as she lay in bed. The ghost told her Trout Shue had grown enraged that Zona didnt serve meat for dinner and grabbed her by the neck, squeezing until it broke between the first and second vertebrae.