Police in Michigan are trying to track down two disabled siblings of a former Kentucky woman, accused of abusing and starving her handicapped sister.
In the meantime, investigators here in Kentucky are taking a closer look at the death of another sibling.
Candy Lawson is accused of locking her 42-year-old deaf, mute sister Diana in a closet at her Michigan home with little food and water and a bucket for a toilet. During the investigation into the disturbing allegations, the police chief in Corunna, Michigan says he started to uncover even more.
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The chief says Lawson’s mother had adopted eight disabled children over the years, and when she died in 2007, Candy Lawson took custody of two of her siblings, Diana and Christopher. She brought her siblings to live in Franklin County, Kentucky where she opened a tattoo shop.
In 2009, Lawson’s brother died. A death certificate for Christopher Churchill shows the 33-year-old died due to protein calorie malnutrition. Churchill was five-feet-two-inches tall and weighed just 60 pounds.
When Diana was rescued from her closet, she weighed only 74 pounds.
Authorities in Corunna, Michigan, charged 44-year-old Candy Lawson last week with unlawful imprisonment, vulnerable adult abuse and embezzlement from a vulnerable adult. She pleaded not guilty.
While Churchill’s manner of death was viewed as natural, some information received from Lawson’s family and friends in Michigan during the investigation into the abuse have led the Franklin County Coroner and Kentucky State Police to take another look at his death.
While that investigation is underway in Kentucky, back in Michigan, the Corunna police chief says two of Lawson’s disabled siblings are unaccounted for. His agency and some others are working to track them down, but they have not released any more details.
