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
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