Interactive: Audio slideshow – Valentine’s Massacre
Published 4:00 pm Thursday, February 12, 2009
VAUGHAN, Miss. – Five years ago this Valentine’s Day, a cattle truck driver named Earnest Lee Hargon murdered his cousin’s family _ strangling a 4-year-old child _ in a senseless, brutal crime that captured the nation’s attention. But that wasn’t the beginning – or the end – of a series of agonizing tragedies that have wiped out three generations of a family in rural central Mississippi.