James Scales Purrington was an American farmer who killed eight members of his family and wounded a ninth in Augusta , Maine, United States on July 9, 1806, before committing suicide. There has never been any real motive provided for the senseless killing, but some might take James’s belief in the doctrine of universal salvation as the key reason.
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