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Charles Laughead

Case from Chester, PA dated Mar 01, 1969

Victim Details

Charles H. Laughead

Male

Chester

PA

1969-03-01

24

Charles

Laughead

07/15/2026

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Charles H. Laughead, a 24-year-old male, was killed on March 1, 1969, in Chester, Pennsylvania. Online memorial and cemetery records identify him as Charles H. Laughead, born in 1944 and buried at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Cemetery in Linwood, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. A gun-violence memorial lists his death as a fatal shooting in Chester on that date, while a later newspaper clipping connected to the case gives his address as 1136-A Haverford Road in Ridley Township.

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