Discretion is advice.

This is a minute-mer.

George Steny Jr. was born on October 21, 1929. He grew up in Al-Caloo, South Carolina. His father,

George Steny, Sr. worked at the local lumberyard in sawmill. The sawmill brought a lot of

life to the small town, employing many of its residents. The Stenny family even lived in a company-owned house.

Their house was small with a chicken coop in the back, but room enough for George,

his parents, and his siblings.

When George Stenny was 14, he was still pretty small.

He was only 5 foot, 1 inch, and around 95 pounds. He had a younger sister named

Amy that he often referred to as his shadow. She followed him everywhere he went. On March 22nd,

1944, they were playing outside of the house when two little white girls riding their bikes

stopped to talk to them. This was extremely unusual.

At the time, the town was still extremely segregated. The white and black families attended different

churches, the children went to separate schools, and the railroad tracks divided their housing.

The girls were looking for May pops. It's a name they used in that area for

passion flowers, and Stenny told him he didn't know where to look for the May pops, so the girls

continued on their way. The next day, while his parents were away at work, two black cars rolled

down the dusty driveway. Amy was scared scared and she hid in the chicken coop.

George and his brother John were taken into custody and questioned for murder.

Betty June Binneker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7, never made it home from their bike

ride. Their bodies had been found on the black side of

the train tracks, their heads beaten with a blunt object, strong enough to crush their skulls,

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