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A Grisly Bicentennial: Man Kills Toddler, Self In What May Have Been Gravesend’s First Murder-Suicide
Two hundred years ago this week, the now historic village of Gravesend was rocked by a violent and tragic outburst that may have been the town’s first murder-suicide. The bicentennial was first noted by historian and friend of the site Joseph Ditta, who posted on his blog of Gravesend