While the festive season is meant to be celebrated with loved ones carving turkeys , killing chickens and goats some decide to commit murders thereby rendering the future family's Christmases , if any .Here are 15 bizzare Festive period murders.

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Kobojunkie
IMAliyu
Ishilove
Bennyreps6528
Brian47
Leezah
DandeNumeruno
Tamaratonye1
aadoiza
MrMystrO
budaatum
Immorttal
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Happy new year family

The Lawson family murders




The murder of the Lawson family refers to a familicide which took place in Germanton, North Carolina, United States on December 25, 1929, in which sharecropper Charles Davis "Charlie" Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.




In 1911, Charles Lawson married Fannie Manring, with whom he had eight children. The third, William, born in 1914, died of an illness in 1920. In 1918, following the move of his younger brothers Marion and Elijah to the Germanton area, Lawson followed suit with his family. The Lawsons worked as tenant tobacco farmers, saving enough money by 1927 to buy their own farm on Brook Cove Road.

1929 murders

In 1929, days prior to Christmas, Lawson (age 43) took Fannie (his wife age 37) and their seven children, Arthur (age 19), Marie (age 17), Carrie (age 12), Maybell (age 7) James (age 4) Raymond, (age 2) and Mary Lou (age 4 months) into town to buy new clothes and to have a family portrait taken. This would have been an unusual occurrence for a working-class rural family of the era, which has led to speculations that Lawson's act was premeditated. Posthumously it was speculated that he had impregnated his eldest daughter (Marie, 17). Lawson having purchased his own farm two years previous, however, together with the fact that an Associated Press wire that went out on the day after the murders characterized Lawson as a "well-to-do farmer",would make a pre-Christmas shopping spree appear reasonable.

On the afternoon of December 25, Lawson first shot his daughters, Carrie and Maybell, as they were setting out to their uncle and aunt's house. He waited for them by the tobacco barn until they were in range, shot them with a 12-gauge shotgun, then ensured that they were dead by bludgeoning them. He placed the bodies in the tobacco barn.

Afterwards, Lawson returned to the house and shot Fannie, who was on the porch. As soon as the gun was fired, Marie, who was inside, screamed, while the two small boys, James and Raymond, attempted to find a hiding place. Lawson shot Marie, and then found and killed the two boys. Lastly, he killed the baby, Mary Lou; it is thought that she was bludgeoned to death. After the murders, he went into the nearby woods and, several hours later, shot himself. The only survivor was his eldest son, 19-year-old Arthur, whom he had sent on an errand just before committing the crime.

The bodies of the family members were found with their arms crossed and rocks under their heads. The gunshot signaling Lawson's own suicide was heard by the many people who already had learned of the murders on the property and gathered there. A police officer who was with Arthur ran down to discover Lawson's body along with letters to his parents. As footprints encircled the tree, it was supposed that he had been pacing around the tree prior to taking his life.


Shortly after the murders, Charlie's brother, Marion Lawson, opened the home on Brook Cove Road as a tourist attraction. A cake that Marie had baked on Christmas Day was displayed on the tour. Because visitors began to pick at the raisins on the cake to take as souvenirs, it was placed in a covered glass cakeserver for many years.

The event inspired a number of songs and other tributes including the murder ballad "The Murder of the Lawson Family", which was originally recorded by the Carolina Buddies for Columbia records in 1930 and covered by Stanley Brothers in March 1956.

The case was also featured in an episode of the PRX podcast Criminal.

The Lawsons were laid to rest in a family graveyard established in 1908, originally for the use of the W. D. Browder family and selected friends and neighbors. Today, it is open for burials only for direct descendants of W. D. Browder, owing to limited plot availability.
Arthur Lawson was killed in a 1945 motor accident (age 31), leaving a wife and four children.

The Netflix series 28 days haunted (2022) shows the place where the murders took place and describes what happened there

What’s with your fascination for gore?

TheSourcerer:
While the festive season is meant to be celebrated with loved ones carving turkeys , killing chickens and goats some decide to commit murders thereby rendering the future family's Christmases , if any .Here are 15 bizzare Festive period murders.

Prophetfire,Sisterfire ,Dominique ,CAPSLOCKED,Hahn,HopefulLandlord,peacefull,Dyt,dominatrix,Puvo, Mufasalion,Fedrick100 Mansa1001(hello)
DuBLINGreenb,budaatum,lordreed, kkins25, PhenomenalAustin,Rekhina( ) azraeljaheel
And
Dreebieee
Sebastine1994
A001
Magnoliaa
Kobojunkie
IMAliyu
Ishilove
Bennyreps6528
Brian47
Leezah
DandeNumeruno
Tamaratonye1
aadoiza
MrMystrO
budaatum
Immorttal
pocohantus

Happy new year family

Happy new year!

TheSourcerer:
While the festive season is meant to be celebrated with loved ones carving turkeys , killing chickens and goats some decide to commit murders thereby rendering the future family's Christmases , if any .Here are 15 bizzare Festive period murders.

Prophetfire,Sisterfire ,Dominique ,CAPSLOCKED,Hahn,HopefulLandlord,peacefull,Dyt,dominatrix,Puvo, Mufasalion,Fedrick100 Mansa1001(hello)
DuBLINGreenb,budaatum,lordreed, kkins25, PhenomenalAustin,Rekhina( ) azraeljaheel
And
Dreebieee
Sebastine1994
A001
Magnoliaa
Kobojunkie
IMAliyu
Ishilove
Bennyreps6528
Brian47
Leezah
DandeNumeruno
Tamaratonye1
aadoiza
MrMystrO
budaatum
Immorttal
pocohantus

Happy new year family

Happy New Year to all!

Kobojunkie:
Happy New Year to all!

Happy New Year to you too.

TheSourcerer:
While the festive season is meant to be celebrated with loved ones carving turkeys , killing chickens and goats some decide to commit murders thereby rendering the future family's Christmases , if any .Here are 15 bizzare Festive period murders.

Prophetfire,Sisterfire ,Dominique ,CAPSLOCKED,Hahn,HopefulLandlord,peacefull,Dyt,dominatrix,Puvo, Mufasalion,Fedrick100 Mansa1001(hello)
DuBLINGreenb,budaatum,lordreed, kkins25, PhenomenalAustin,Rekhina( ) azraeljaheel
And
Dreebieee
Sebastine1994
A001
Magnoliaa
Kobojunkie
IMAliyu
Ishilove
Bennyreps6528
Brian47
Leezah
DandeNumeruno
Tamaratonye1
aadoiza
MrMystrO
budaatum
Immorttal
pocohantus

Happy new year family

Happy New Year folks!! May we see many more! You guys make Nairaland bearable and fun!

That's Jon-Bennet Ramsey up there, going to 3 decades and her killer is yet to be found

meobizy:
What’s with your fascination for gore?

Nuisance

Op, continue

meobizy:
What’s with your fascination for gore?

The Art of it really . How is your day going so far ?

dominique:
That's Jon-Bennet Ramsey up there, going to 3 decades and her killer is yet to be found

Hi hello there , i notice your in-depth analysis on not so common Crime documentaries(Admist other weirdo ish ) , Were you also born this way or it came with eventual solutide ? Good morning

Why did you not continue with the thread

TheSourcerer:
Hi hello there , i notice your in-depth analysis on not so common Crime documentaries(Admist other weirdo ish ) , Were you also born this way or it came with eventual solutide ? Good morning

Ishilove:
Op, continue

phone blew up Samsung s9 , using the iphone is so much stressful, so sorry

ItsTutsi:
Why did you not continue with the thread

hi hello texting on this new phone is taskful ill try again Tomorrow

Alright

TheSourcerer:
hi hello texting on this new phone is taskful ill try again Tomorrow

TheSourcerer:
While the festive season is meant to be celebrated with loved ones carving turkeys , killing chickens and goats some decide to commit murders thereby rendering the future family's Christmases , if any .Here are 15 bizzare Festive period murders.

Prophetfire,Sisterfire ,Dominique ,CAPSLOCKED,Hahn,HopefulLandlord,peacefull,Dyt,dominatrix,Puvo, Mufasalion,Fedrick100 Mansa1001(hello)
DuBLINGreenb,budaatum,lordreed, kkins25, PhenomenalAustin,Rekhina( ) azraeljaheel
And
Dreebieee
Sebastine1994
A001
Magnoliaa
Kobojunkie
IMAliyu
Ishilove
Bennyreps6528
Brian47
Leezah
DandeNumeruno
Tamaratonye1
aadoiza
MrMystrO
budaatum
Immorttal
pocohantus

Happy new year family

Happy New Year!!