James Dunham

Who is James Dunham?

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 two revolvers, Dunham murdered:

Hattie Wells Dunham

James Wells

Ada Wells McGlincy

Colonel Richard Parran McGlincy

two household servants

Dunham's motives are 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. Although investigators conducted an extensive manhunt throughout Santa Clara County, California Dunham was never found and the case remains officially open.