Phantasmal Crime 21 - The Lawson Family Murders

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Familicide is impossible to understand. How does a family member kill their entire family? The Lawson Family Murders took place on Christmas Day in 1929. Left in the wake of Charlie Lawson's murderous rampage were the bodies of his wife and six of his children. Also left behind is some spiritual residue in several locations connected to the murders.

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Steven Pappas performs the Lawson Family Murders
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0:00.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.0	True crime can be strangely fascinating.
0:18.0	This true crime is odd, macabre and haunted.
0:22.0	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.
0:25.0	Welcome to Pentasma Crime.
0:31.0	Familiside is impossible to understand.
0:34.0	Family and nihilators like Chris Watts are monsters to us.
0:39.0	How does a family member kill their entire family?
0:43.0	There's a traditional folk ballad with a very macabre subject.
0:46.0	That subject is the massacre of a North Carolina family by the name of Lawson.
0:51.0	This song details the gruesome events that took place on Christmas Day in 1929.
0:57.0	The ballad is titled, The Murder of the Lawson Family,
1:00.0	and was written by Walter Kid Smith of Virginia in 1930.
1:08.0	It was a home as Christmas evening.
1:13.0	A snow was on the ground.
1:18.0	At his home in North Carolina.
1:24.0	The murder was found.
1:29.0	His name was Charlie Lawson.
1:34.0	And he had a loving wife.
1:40.0	So we'll never know what caused him to take his family's lives.
1:54.0	Charlie Lawson was born in 1886 in Lawsonville, North Carolina.
2:04.0	In 1911, at the age of 25, Charlie married the love of his life, Miss Fanny Manring, who was 19.
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