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Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk Dragged from jail and hanged at a nearby tree, upon the alleged statement of two African-American women; [ 324 ] the women who made the statement were arrested the next day for making a false statement, according to one source [ 325 ] and/or disappeared. [ 326 ]
Roughly a year after the murder of Delores Lynch, on May 18, 1985, Susie Newsom’s father Bob, her mother Florence, and her grandmother Hattie were all shot to death in their home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Before his murder, Bob had agreed to testify in favor of Tom Lynch during an upcoming custody hearing.
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Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons.His home life was somewhat troubled; relatives have described his mother as domineering and have said that, while young, he witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents.
Haight's siblings all had criminal records by the time Haight was arrested for the murders of the Lynch sisters. [5] Haight, Arnold Jr., Preston, and Charlotte lived with their mother Georgianna, who was estranged from their father, until May 3, 1939, when their mother died in an accidental house fire. [ 6 ]
Bernard had loaned the handgun, which belonged to him, to Lynch prior to the murders. Lynch pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a stolen firearm and received a five-year sentence. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Lynch committed additional crimes in prison, extending his sentence but was eventually released on December 16, 2008.
The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville , but the four victims, two married couples, were ...
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