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Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
On Christmas Day in 1929, the community of Germanton, North Carolina, was forever changed by the tragic murders of seven members of the Lawson family. One fact remains indisputable: Charlie Lawson was responsible for the deaths of his family. However, the question that has lingered for nearly a century is: why did he commit such a heinous act?
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Episode Sources
- Greensboro Daily News: Stokes Farmer Murders Family, Dec 26, 1929
- Greensboro Daily News: Victims to be Buried in Single Grave, Dec 27, 1929
- Statesville Record and Landmark: Only One Member of Family of 9 Left, Dec 30, 1929
- The Sentinel: No Report on Brain of Charlie Lawson, Jan 7, 1930
- Statesville Record: Commercializing the Lawson Home, Feb 3, 1930
- PlanetSlade: So hard to die: Murder of the Lawson Family
- Murderpedia: Charles Davis Lawson
- CLEWS: Christmas Murders and the Lawson Family Massacre, December 2006
- M. Bruce Jones with Trudy Smith: White Christmas, Bloody Christmas, 1990.
- Trudy Smith: The Meaning of Our Tears
Episode Music
Out of the Mines, courtesy of Ross Gentry, Asheville, North Carolina.
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