What the records say
- When
- Feb 1902
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 6
- Coordinates
- 30.21° N, 93.21° W
- Description
- 1902 mass murder of a family in Louisiana
- Injured
- 0
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Earll family murders
1902 mass murder of a family in Louisiana
On February 14, 1902, six members of the Earll family were found dead in a cabin near Welsh, Louisiana. Albert Edwin Batson, an itinerant farm worker who had worked for the Earlls, was suspected of the crime. He was tried twice and sentenced to death four times for the killings; despite the sentencing board recommending his sentence be commuted to life in prison, governor William Wright Heard refused to commute his s…
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