Christmas Slay Ride: Most Mysterious and Horrific Christmas Day Murders (7 page)

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The Ashland Tragery

Glen R. Haney, ‘Did Christ Die for Sinners Weep: The Story of the First Legal Hanging in Carter County’

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycarter/journals/neal_craft_murder.htm

Tommy DePaoli, ‘5 Grisly Christmas Murders That Wiped Away All Holiday Cheer’.  
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/12/22/5-grisly-christmas-murders-that-wiped-away-all-holiday-cheer-2528634?lt

New York Times

Christmas Eve Combustion

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New York Times

St. Paul Daily Globe

Delia’s Gone

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Delia’s Gone, One More Round.
http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/03/delias-gone-one-more-round.html

Princeton Alumni Weekly:
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/plus/plus_012605wilentz.html

Holihead Horror

Austin, Bunty.
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December 24, 2009

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New York Times

New York Herald

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The Adonis Club Massacre

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Photo credits:

Mario Gomes / Al Capone Museum. All photos used with permission.

The Lawson Family Massacre

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Smith, Trudy J.
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The Lawson Family Murders:
http://hauntedstories.net/ghost-stories/north-carolina/lawson-family-murders

Underwood, Kim. ‘Lawson Family: Display centers on Stokes tragedy in 1929, when Charlie Lawson took a gun and killed his kin’.
Winston-Salem Journal
, August 10, 2008

A Christmas Family Tragedy.
Dir. Matt Hodges, BOD Productions, 2006

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