The Man in the Window : Charles Lawson

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Season 22 : Family Annihilators Part 2

Charles Lawson told his family he had a surprised planned for the Christmas of 1929. What he would end up doing would not only be a surprise for his family, but for the entire community.

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0:00.0	Christmas is supposed to be a time of celebration, a happy time where families come together and
0:05.7	enjoy each other's company. Though money was usually tied as pre-Depression era tobacco farmers,
0:12.4	the Lawson family still had happy Christmases, making do with whatever they could. It was just
0:18.3	before Christmas of 1929 that the family patriarch Charles Lawson announced that he had a surprise for the family that year.
0:27.0	And a surprise it was, something that came as a shock to his family and everyone else they knew.
0:33.5	This is Monsters.
1:04.9	Music This is Monsters. Charles Lawson was born on May 10, 1886 in North Carolina.
1:11.2	His family were rural tobacco farmers, and Charles continued that tradition as he became an adult.
1:18.0	Charles met Fannie Manoring in the fall of 1910, and they got married on March 12, 1911.
1:23.7	Soon, Fanny was pregnant with the first of eight children she and Charlie would have together.
1:29.7	The following year, Charles's younger brother, Marion, would marry Jetty Ashby and the couple would be a consistent part of the other loss in family's lives. The two family's lives
1:35.7	would run fairly parallel over the years as they both had a number of children and worked on
1:40.6	tobacco farms. Marion and Jetty had moved to Germantin, North Carolina, after they married to work a farm there.
1:48.6	The land was good and level and made for better farming than where they were from.
1:53.9	Charles made an agreement to purchase a 40-acre or 16-hectar tract of farmland for $1,500, about $3,200 today. They loaded up a covered wagon
2:04.9	and made the journey from Lawsonville to Germantin in the fall of 1918. By then they had four
2:11.7	children. Arthur was born in 1912, Marie in 1913, William in 1914, and Carrie was the baby having been born just over a year
2:22.4	before the move. A neighbor from their new farm traveled the 20 miles or 32 kilometers north to
2:29.1	Lawsonville with his wagon to help the family move. The children in some lighter housewares were in Charles's
2:35.9	wagon, and the heavier items like furniture were in the other wagon. They left early one morning,
2:42.1	stopped to sleep during the trip, and then made it to the property the following day. Once there,
2:47.7	they didn't have a house on the land they purchased, so they moved into a rented
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