What the records say
- When
- 25 Dec 1929
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 8
- Coordinates
- 36.28° N, 80.21° W
- Description
- Act of Familicide occuring on December 25, 1929, in which sharecropper Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children
The source
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