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Celisia Stanton

True Crime

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In 1983, a 10-year-old boy hunting with his father made a horrifying discovery beneath what locals called the hanging tree. A Black man’s body, brutalized—stabbed in an X pattern that echoed the Confederate flag. A hate crime meant to send a message. A murder meant to stay buried. For 34 years, silence and fear kept the truth hidden. But when the past finally caught up to the present, a town was forced to reckon with its darkest secrets. This episode drops Monday, but if you can’t wait, you don’t have to. Listen to the full story now on Tenderfoot Plus. Subscribers get early access, ad-free listening, and exclusive content from over 30 shows. Head to TenderfootPlus.com to sign up. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a tenderfoot TV podcast.
0:09.3	In 1983, a 10-year-old boy, hunting with his father, made a horrifying discovery beneath what locals called the hanging tree.
0:19.3	This was a horrible crime.
0:21.1	In 1983, deputies found the body here along Mentir Road, right over there by those power lines.
0:28.3	There was the body of a black man, brutally murdered, stabbed in an X pattern that echoed the
0:34.9	Confederate flag.
0:35.9	A terrifying discovery in a community still haunted by its past.
0:41.0	And I know that our day of record is coming.
0:44.0	You're all no wrong there.
0:47.3	We are for whites and white only.
0:50.3	White only.
0:51.3	The United States plan is the only white organization in half of it. But that 10-year-old boy, would never
0:59.7	the one who'd first uncovered the body
1:02.4	would never forget what he saw that day.
1:06.4	And 34 years later,
1:08.1	he would help unlock the truth
1:09.6	about one of Georgia's most brutal hate crimes,
1:13.0	the murder of Timothy Coggins.
1:15.8	The people who did it, they know what it was, the people who committed the crime,
1:21.2	know how he was killed, and those are the people that we were coming after.
1:25.3	In a small southern town where everyone knows everyone's secrets, how did this case go
1:31.2	unsolved for three decades?
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