James Dunham
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James C. Dunham, was a multiple murderer who, on the night of May 26, 1896, killed his wife, her family, and two of that family's servants in Campbell, California.
Using an axe and firearms, Dunham murdered:
- Hattie Wells Dunham (Dunham's wife)
- James Wells (Hattie's brother)
- Ada Wells McGlincy (Hattie's mother)
- Colonel Richard Parran McGlincy (Hattie's step-father)
- two household servants
Dunham's motives are still unknown. The sole survivors were Dunham's and Hattie's 3-week-old son and a farmhand who had hidden in the barn during the massacre. An extensive manhunt throughout Santa Clara County, California did not produce the murderer.
