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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs she receives end of life hospice care.. Emmitt Till's accuser photographed first time in 20 years
Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 88, has managed to go unseen since 2004, going on to live a long life - and now spending her final days in apparent tranquility - despite her role in 14-year-old Emmett Till's lynching in 1955
At the time Donham was a 21-year-old married mother-of-two who accused the young black boy of whistling at her - a violation of the South's racist societal codes - at a Mississippi store, setting off his brutal murder
Today, she is living in a small apartment community in Kentucky with her son, Thomas Bryant, 71, and their pet shih tzu, as seen in these exclusive DailyMail.com photos
Donham, who was wearing a nasal cannula looped over her ears and into her nose, suffers from cancer, is legally blind, and is receiving end of life hospice care in her home
When approached by DailyMail.com, Donham stood by silently behind her son, who shook his head when asked if either would speak about Till
Till's beaten and mutilated body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, weighted down with a large fan from a cotton gin, before being pulled out three days later on August 28
Donham's then husband Roy Bryant and his brother John Milam were later tried and acquitted of Till's murder, while she went on to evade charges or any consequences in a case that shocked the world for its brutality
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11060011/Emmett-Tills-accuser-Carolyn-Bryant-Donham-seen-Kentucky-time-nearly-20-years.html
An unserved warrant for Donham's arrest was discovered by a team led by relatives of Till last month, bringing the case back into focus
Solly Mack
(90,788 posts)There are those, whose crime(s) is (are) so heinous, that they deserve to be hounded and hunted down until their dying day in the quest for justice.
It's never the past as long as the guilty remain free.
Baitball Blogger
(46,761 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)As it states in the article, many people see her as no better than a Nazi war criminal. She is responsible for Emmett Till's murder. She falsely accused him, and she may as well have killed him with her own hands.
live love laugh
(13,142 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,202 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,475 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)niyad
(113,589 posts)RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)Yes, she deserves to die and I hope she burns in hell.
Judi Lynn
(160,634 posts)People like them have been unchanged all these long years. Can't guess how long it would take for them to evolve, can you?
Their "superiority" hasn't done the world much good, has it?
IronLionZion
(45,544 posts)and don't think of it as murder. They want an excuse to kill people they don't like on trumped up accusations.
These days it might be women/girls seeking abortion. Or foreign-looking people stealing jobs.
BidenRocks
(827 posts)The flooding is getting the wrong people.
MichMan
(11,985 posts)inthewind21
(4,616 posts)statute of limitation on murder. She should have NEVER been allowed to just go on with her life as if nothing ever happened.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Polybius
(15,498 posts)I did not know this was coming out.