There were two more murders 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cup of murder.

Racism has been playing a role in crime for longer than we would care to admit.

On June 16, 1944, a young boy was put to death

for a crime that, depending on what side you land on, was either a gross miscarriage of justice

or a biased trial of a guilty individual. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

In the year 1944, George Sini Jr., born October 21st, 1929,

was a young teen living in Alcalo, South Carolina with his father, George Sr., his mother, Amy, brothers

John and Charles, and sisters, Catherine and Amy. George Sr. was a hardworking man, who had a job

in the town's sawmill, and thanks to his employment, the family was able to live in company housing

in the small mill town.

It was also a town where white and black neighborhoods were separated by railroad tracks

and where because the schools and churches were both segregated,

there was very little interaction between the two groups.

Which is why the entirety of Okuloo went into a complete tailspin when, on March 23,

1944, the bodies of two young, white girls were found in a ditch that lay on the, quote,

black side of the train tracks.

Their names were Betty June Binnaker, just 11 years old, and Mary Emma Thames, only seven.

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