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The Lawson Family Christmas Massacre (1929)
Christmas morning is supposed to be loud in a good way.Footsteps on stairs. Wrapping paper tearing. Someone burning breakfast because they got distracted. That was not how Christmas Day felt in Germanton, North Carolina, in 1929. Instead, the morning ended with seven people dead. And a silence that still hangs over the story. Charles Lawson…