What the records say
- When
- 16 Oct 2002
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 7
- Coordinates
- 39.31° N, 76.60° W
- Description
- parents and five children were murdered in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2002
Dawson murder case
Murder of family of seven in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2002
The Dawson family, a family of seven, were all murdered in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., on October 16, 2002. After Angela had repeatedly alerted police to drug dealing, assault, and other crimes in her East Baltimore neighborhood of Oliver, the entire family was killed when their home was firebombed. A neighbor, Darrell L.
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