Familicide

Episode 38

Familicide feels a lot like a horror writer’s bread and butter but not something that would actually happen in real life. Like what person what to take out their entire family and why? It happens for a plethora of reasons and each time it’s a sad reality that probably could have been prevented.

First we’ll start with the giggling granny. Nannie Doss started small and grew her blood lust not just for the thrill of murder but she collected a nice sum of money vis insurance policies she would open on her victims. This story almost sounds like when Sam starts on a tangent and makes a mountain out of a mole hill. Don’t hold your breath because it gets worse and more crazy with each victim.

Christmas Day in the 1920s and Charlie, the patriarch of the Lawson family, send his oldest son, Arthur, to run some errands. When Arthur returns he finds his entire family laid out in the front yard - hands crossed and heads resting on rocks - dead. Not long after a shot rings out from the woods and a sinking feeling over takes him, he is the final Lawson. This isn’t just a gruesome murder but also an infamous haunting covered by recent Netflix documentary!

Hope you enjoy…. as much as one can enjoy murder and stuff :-)