{O/C} Seven hours of testimony was far from enough to convince a Mississippi grand jury to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, the alleged murderer of Black teenager, Emmett Till, over 70 years ago.
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A Leflore County grand jury told the court there was inadequate evidence to suggest 87-year-old Donham did kidnap and slay Emmett Till.
This, in spite of recent revelations about an unexecuted arrest warrant and the suspected murderer's unpublished memoir.
Reverebd Wheeler Parker Jr., Emmett Till's cousin and the last living witness to Till's August 28th, 1955 abduction called the decision "unfortunate" but par for the course.
The lynching of Emmett Till is a case that once ignited the modern civil rights movement.
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