The Lawson Family Murders

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back for the final episode of the year! This week, they cover the Lawson Family Murders, during which Germanton tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson murdered his family on the afternoon of Christmas Day in 1929. They get into all the details leading up to the day and also discuss some possible motives behind the seemingly senseless act. To end the episode, they play a round of trivia on obscure facts of the crop that the Lawson family grew at their farm: tobacco. Happy Holidays from the NATCP Fam! RESOURCES: Deadly Secrets: The Lawson Family Murder Podcast https://greensboro.com/community/rockingham_now/lawson-family-murders-a-look-back-after-90-years/article_16aeaae1-5ded-57e8-bde0-35e0d3e69466.html https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lawson-charles-davis.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Between forgetting the sellotape,
0:01.6	trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table
0:04.1	and the cat taking down the tree.
0:06.2	Again!
0:08.1	Christmas can be tricky.
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0:26.4	Simple, offer ends 31st December, full details online.
0:30.0	It was a quiet Christmas day in Germanton, North Carolina in 1929.
0:37.0	But at the Lawson family tobacco farm,
0:40.1	tragedy was taking place.
0:41.4	A few days before, Charlie Lawson had taken his wife Fanny
0:44.9	and their seven children into town to buy new clothes and have a family portrait,
0:48.8	which would turn out to be their last.
0:50.4	The bodies of the family members were found that Christmas day
0:53.6	with their arms crossed and rocks under their heads,
0:55.9	murdered by their own father.
0:57.7	What compelled Charlie Lawson to go on this terrible murderous spring?
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