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Bennett K. Hatfield

Case from Charleston, WV dated May 23, 2016

Victim Details

Bennett K. Hatfield

Male

White / Caucasian

Charleston

WV

2016-05-23

59

Bennett

K. Hatfield

08/25/2026

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Bennett K. Hatfield, a 59-year-old White/Caucasian man from Charleston, West Virginia, was a longtime coal-industry executive who had served as president and CEO of Patriot Coal and, earlier, as CEO of International Coal Group. On Sunday, May 22, 2016, Hatfield traveled to Mountain View Memory Gardens in Maher, Mingo County, near the Kentucky border. He had gone there to tend the grave of his late wife, Debbie, who died in 2009, and to prepare family gravesites for Memorial Day. Investigators be ...
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  • Charleston Gazette-Mail: Weekend arrangements set for slain WV coal CEO
  • Arrest after West Virginia coal executive Bennett K. Hatfield found shot dead in cemetery
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