Murder of the Lawson family

Name: Murder of the Lawson family
Start: 1929

1929 CE.

Shown on the map at 36.285°, -80.207°.

On December 25, 1929, sharecropper Charles Davis "Charlie" Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children in Germanton, North Carolina, United States. The familicide has been subject to much speculation due to the unconfirmed motive, with the most commonly reported theory alleging an attempted cover-up of incestual abuse. The site of the Lawson family murders also became a popular dark tourism site, also inspiring several songs and stories.

Text from the Wikipedia article Lawson family murders, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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