Murder of the Lawson family
| Murder of the Lawson family | |
|---|---|
Lawson family portrait. Left to right: (Top) Arthur (19), Marie (17), Charles (43), Fannie (37) holding baby Mary Lou; (Bottom) James (4), Maybell (7), Raymond (2), Carrie (12). | |
| Location | Germanton, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Date | December 25, 1929 |
Attack type | uxoricide |
| Deaths | 8 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Charles Davis Lawson (the father) |
The murder of the Lawson family refers to a familicide which took place on December 25, 1929, in Germanton, North Carolina, in which sharecropper Charles Davis "Charlie" Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.