Timothy Sturgeon

Timothy Sturgeon was an 8-year-old boy who died on June 19, 1966, in the small hamlet of Helena in northern New York, a day that should have felt like summer and Father’s Day, but instead turned into something the surrounding communities struggled to comprehend.

The reports that followed placed Timothy at the center of a cluster of deaths that all happened together. His younger siblings—Ruth Elizabeth, Mary Grace, and John Robert—were also killed that same day in Helena.

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