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According to Ida B. Wells and the Tuskegee University, most lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people .
The state objected to all 15 videos shown to jurors Saturday, but Judge Gull overruled those and admitted the recordings into evidence.
While it is commonly believed that Fritz Klenner had both the means and the motive to commit the murders, it cannot be proven beyond a ballistics report that linked a bullet which was found at the scene of the Lynch killings to a gun that Klenner and Susie sold to a North Carolina gun dealer. [2] Susie's role in the murders still remains unknown.
The long-awaited decision in one of Indiana's most high-profile murder cases comes after more than seven years of investigation, nearly three weeks of testimony and 18 hours of deliberation.
The teen's neighbors Kayden Lynch, 19, and Madison Daly, 18, were found unresponsive at their Alabama home on Dec. 24 18-Year-Old Charged with Double Murder of Teen Stepsisters Found Dead on ...
The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville , but the four victims, two married couples, were ...
Ron Wilkins, Kristine Phillips, Jordan Smith, Sarah Nelson, Jenny Porter Tilley and Katie Wiseman, USA TODAY NETWORK October 24, 2024 at 2:15 AM The trial of Richard Allen continues Thursday in ...
In February 2005, Dominique murdered 22-year-old Leon Lirett, an alcoholic vagrant who had previously lived with two other victims – Barnett and Anoka Jones – and was even considered the prime suspect in Jones' murder, as he was the last person to see him prior to the former's disappearance. Two months later, in April, Dominique met 31-year ...