Charles Wayne Smith

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 ...

AROUND THE NATION; One Arrested, 2 Sought In Georgia Slayings of 3 (Published 1986)

AROUND THE NATION; Woman Slain as She Calls To Report 2 ...