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Horrid Murder! The James Purrington Family Massacre - Publication Date |
- Mar 31, 2021
- Episode Duration |
- 00:40:32
1806 - Bowdoinham, Maine.
On a hot July night in 1806, in a frontier town near Augusta, Maine (before the state had its name), Captain James Scales Purrington took an axe and a straight edge razor, and murdered his wife and 7 of their children before killing himself.
This horrifying act shocked the town. What kind of man would slaughter his children? Did James Purrington have a psychotic break? Or was something more sinister happen?
This is the story of the original family annihilator, James Purrington, and the Purrington family massacre.
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