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The murder of the Lawson family refers to a familicide which took place on December 25, 1929, in Germanton, North Carolina, United States, in which sharecropper Charles Davis "Charlie" Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.
Why did a poor North Carolina tobacco farmer kill his wife, six of his kids and himself on Christmas Day, 1929? Despite more than 90 years of rumors and speculations, some family members say they...
On Christmas Day, 1929, the small town of Germanton, North Carolina, was rocked by a familicide. The Lawson family had been a well-known clan in the small town. Headed by patriarch Charlie Lawson, the family were sharecroppers who owned their own farm and had a large family.
On December 25, 1929, Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of their seven children before killing himself in Stokes County. His motive remains a mystery.
Germanton tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson, 43, on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1929, shot and bludgeoned six of his seven children and his wife before turning his gun on himself in the...
Explores the Lawson Family Massacre of Christmas Day, 1929. On that day, respected tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson brutally murdered his wife and 6 of his 7 children before committing suicide; the most horrible and mysterious mass murder in North Carolina history.
On a snowy Christmas Day in 1929 a respected tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina murdered everyone in his family except one son. It became one of the most mysterious stories of the century with the gruesome murder scene left intact for Depression Era tourists to visit and walk through.
