Sue Belle Stidham was born in April 1899 in Saluda County, South Carolina. She married John Wallace Logue, and the couple settled on the Logue family farm in Edgefield County. Sue worked as a schoolteacher before becoming more involved in the family's agricultural operations. The couple experienced tragedy with the loss of their only child shortly after birth in 1930. Sue was known to be a strong-willed and determined woman, qualities that became evident following the death of her husband, John Wallace, in 1940 during a confrontation with Davis Timmerman. Sue was deeply affected by her husband's death and became consumed with seeking retribution against Timmerman.

Following the acquittal of Davis Timmerman for the death of her husband, Sue Logue conspired with her brother-in-law George Logue and nephew Joe Frank Logue to murder Timmerman as an act of revenge. They hired Clarence Bagwell, offering him $500 to carry out the killing.

On September 17, 1941, Bagwell entered Timmerman's store and fatally shot him. The murder weapon was procured by Joe Frank Logue, and Sue, along with George, facilitated the payment to Bagwell.

The investigation led to the arrests of Sue, George, Bagwell, and Joe Frank. During the attempt to apprehend Sue and George at their farmhouse on November 16, 1941, a gunfight erupted, resulting in the deaths of Sheriff Wad D. Allen, Deputy William L. Clark, and Fred Dorn, a sharecropper. Sue surrendered after intervention by local judge Strom Thurmond.

In January 1942, Sue Logue was tried and convicted of first-degree murder for her role in orchestrating Timmerman's death. She was sentenced to death and became the first woman to be executed in South Carolina's electric chair on January 15, 1943, at the South Carolina Penitentiary in Columbia.