While it appears to be a normal family portrait, this snapshot was taken just days before Charlie Lawson (the man standing second from the right) murdered everyone pictured here on Christmas Day 1929. Only 16-year-old Arthur (top left) managed to escape being murdered.Months before the event, Lawson had sustained a head injury. Some family and friends theorized that it had altered his mental state and was related to the tragedy.
However, an autopsy and analysis of his brain at Johns Hopkins Hospital found no abnormalities..
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