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Case Description

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In the fall of 1986, a violent and tragic event unfolded in a DeKalb County, Georgia, condominium that claimed the lives of three people and left another for dead. Charles Wayne Smith, a 54-year-old Caucasian male, was at his home with his two sons, Steven and Richard, and his companion, Margaret Sweat. The sense of a normal day was shattered when Larry Grant Lonchar and an accomplice, Mitchell Wells, arrived at the residence.

Lonchar, who was indebted to a bookmaking business operated by ...Read More

Victim Details

Charles Wayne Smith

Male

White / Caucasian

Dekalb

GA

1986-10-13

54

Charles

Wayne Smith

05/19/2026