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It was revealed that Carolyn Bryant Dunham is still alive today after an arrest warrant was found in connection with the murder of Emmett Till.

according to APAfter searching for evidence gathered after Till’s murder in 1955, an unconfirmed order is discovered from August of that year for the arrest of “Mrs. Roy Bryant”. Now the family of the 14-year-old murdered wants to arrest the woman.

What happened to Emmett Till?

In late August 1955, 14-year-old black boy Emmett Till was visiting his family in Mississippi from Chicago. While they were standing outside a store, Emmett was allegedly telling his cousins ​​that his girlfriend at home was white.

Not believing him, his cousins ​​dare to go to the store and ask for a date with the white woman (Caroline Bryant) behind the counter. Until he went to the store and bought some candy and while leaving he was his cousins mentioned Hearing him say, “Goodbye, my love.” Bryant claimed Till grabbed her and gave her a wolf whistle.

When the woman told her husband, Roy Bryant, who had returned from a business trip, what had happened he was furious and drove to Till’s great-uncle’s house where he was staying and demanded to see the boy.

Despite the pleas of the Till family, Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, were even taken away.

The exact course of events is unknown, but Till was so badly beaten before he was killed and thrown into a river that when his body was recovered, he could only be identified by a ring on his finger.

Till’s mother demanded that her son’s body be returned to her in Chicago and held an open funeral to show what had happened to her son.

Bryant and Milam were arrested for Till’s murder, but in September of that year, it took a white jury more than an hour to prove the two men not guilty of the boy’s murder.

Caroline Bryant Dunham is still alive

AP . Reports Dunham’s arrest warrant was published at the time, but “the mayor of Leflore County told reporters he did not want to ‘harass’ the woman because she had two young children to look after.”

Since the memo was rediscovered by members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, including two of Emmett’s relatives – cousin Deborah Watts and daughter Teri – the family has called on authorities to question Carolyn Bryant Dunham over her version of events.

Terry Watts said the family believed the warrant amounted to “new evidence” and added that the arrest was “what the state of Mississippi needs.”

Will Caroline Bryant Dunham be arrested?

The Associated Press reports that Dunham is now in her 80s and lives in North Carolina. It is not clear whether Dunham will actually receive the arrest warrant 67 years after the incident. Ronald J. Richlake, University of Mississippi Professor of Law, He said It can “get old” and not be good.

However, he added, if combined with new evidence, it could be an “important stepping stone towards establishing a possible cause for a new prosecution.”

“If you appear before a judge, you can say: ‘Once upon a time the judge decided there was a probable cause, and there is a lot of information available today,'” Richlack said.

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