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It’s been a lifetime since Emmitt Till was brutally murdered and the cold case that was his death was just closed. “Today is a day that we’ll never forget,” Rev. Wheeler Parker, Till’s cousin, said at a press conference following the announcement. “Officially, the Emmett Till case has been closed after 66 years,” Parker said. “For 66 years we have suffered pain for his loss, and I suffered tremendously because of the way that they painted him.”
Till was 14 when he was falsely accused of whistling at a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, now Carolyn Bryant Donham who is married to one of the people accused of kidnapping and killing Till who was later found in the Tallahatchie River days later.
The case was reopened following the 2018 book “The Blood of Emmett Till” by Timothy Tyson that alleged Bryant had recanted her testimony that Till grabbed her and uttered obscenities. The problem is that since the investigation began, she denied ever recanting her original statement.
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