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Murder In America

57: EP. 57 - MISSISSIPPI - The Emmett Till Story

Murder In America

Blood In The Sink Productions

True Crime

4.88.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

One of the most horrific murders in American history, the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till was a crime that shocked America to its core. Join us as we navigate the stories many disturbing twists and turns, and remember a name that everyone should know.
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I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:15.0

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:30.0

Warning, the following podcast is not suitable for all audiences.

0:34.0

We go into great detail with every case that we cover and do our best to bring viewers

0:38.0

even deeper into the stories by utilizing disturbing audio and sound effects.

0:42.0

Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses against children.

0:48.0

This podcast is not for everyone. You have been warned.

0:55.0

Imagine the sun is creeping up in the east.

1:00.0

The early light signaled the start of a new day more than 66 years ago on August 28th, 1955.

1:09.0

It was quiet in the town of Money Mississippi that summer morning.

1:13.0

But along the Tallahate you river a young African American boy stood in fear,

1:19.0

not knowing if he would live to see another day.

1:23.0

He had every right to be scared.

1:25.0

At this point the two white men had beaten him relentlessly after kidnapping him at gunpoint from his uncle's home.

1:34.0

And soon enough the silence that filled the Mississippi air would be interrupted by a piercing gunshot.

1:42.0

No one knows if the teenage boy saw the bullet coming as he stood near the water's edge.

1:50.0

But after the two white men killed him, they attached a heavy fan to his body with barbed wire,

1:57.0

and they sent him down the Tallahate you river.

2:00.0

The innocent boy had traveled to Mississippi from Chicago to visit relatives.

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