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This intriguing, atmospheric documentary from North Carolina-based producers Matt Hodges (who also directed) and Eric Calhoun examines one of North Carolina's most infamous crimes - the murder of the Lawson family by patriarch Charlie Lawson in Stokes County on Christmas Day, 1929.
Hodges and Calhoun were able to gain unprecedented access to the descendants of the Lawsons and their neighbors, which gives the film considerable credibility as it examines every aspect of the mystery, from the circumstances leading up to it to the aftermath, and the repercussions that continue to echo - not just in Stokes County, but throughout the state and beyond.
The atmospheric, still-photograph re-creations of the crime are ingeniously rendered and quite creepy in themselves. The film doesn't provide all the answers - because those went to the grave along with the Lawsons - but it consistently asks the right questions.

By Mark Burger, WKRR Rock 92.3

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• True Crime
• Family Massacre

[jessbritt121]

Thats crazy, I live close to where they died i actually been to the graveyard where they are barred. my friends dad is one of they few people that is allowed there

[kay290]

I know he killed them because he knew he got his daughter pregnant he knew it so he killed them. I'm reading the book about it and its horrible in the book it says the little girl ran towards the house and he shot her and the one he killed first covered her face with her hands and he shot through her hands and through her head.