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Marcus Wesson was born in Kansas, the eldest of four children of Benjamin and Carrie Wesson. His mother raised him in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [4] Wesson claimed that his mother was a religious fanatic. His father was an alcoholic child abuser who abandoned his family when Wesson was a child. [5]
The event inspired a number of songs and other tributes including the murder ballad "The Murder of the Lawson Family", which was originally recorded by the Carolina Buddies for Columbia Records in 1930 and covered by the Stanley Brothers in March 1956. The case was also featured in an episode of the PRX podcast Criminal. [9]
Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. (September 26, 1951 – March 12, 2021) was an American mass murderer who was tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters in Amityville, New York.
Kenneth Rhoden was the eighth and final member of the Rhoden family found dead in the April 2016 killings.
Unknowns with NC child abuse, neglect deaths. In April, the N.C. State Center for Health Statistics reported a second year of rising child death rates for all causes in 2022, with 1,474 children ...
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
On February 12, 1971, Patricia Ann Mann, age 19 and Jesse Allen McBane, age 20, were found brutally murdered in the woods of Orange County, North Carolina.The murders, known as "The Valentine's Day Murders", have to this day never been solved.
Nicholas Todd Sutton (July 15, 1961 – February 20, 2020) was an American serial killer who was responsible for murdering two acquaintances and his own grandmother in North Carolina and Tennessee from August to December 1979.