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Author Timothy Tyson looks at a copy of Carolyn Bryant Donham's memoir in his home in Durham, N.C., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22. 1955 photo, Carolyn Bryant rests her head on her husband Roy Bryant's shoulder after she testified in Emmett Till murder court case in Sumner, Miss. Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists are advocating another possible path toward accountability in Mississippi: They want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against the woman who set off the lynching by accusing the Chicago teen of improper advances in 1955. (AP Photo, File)

Emmett Till’s relatives want accuser prosecuted in 1955 kidnapping

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 that it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. (AP Photo, File)

Details of Emmett Till killing still a mystery as probe ends

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press