In the late summer of 1973, a devastating event unfolded in Roanoke, Virginia, forever marking the date of August 26th with tragedy. A young, 10-year-old Caucasian boy named Charles Nail Jr. lost his life in a violent incident that claimed the lives of his entire immediate family. The quiet of a late summer day was shattered by an act that would be remembered as one of the largest mass killings in the city's history at the time.
The scene that first responders discovered was one of unimag
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