‘Not true’: Woman admits she made up claims that led to Emmett Till’s brutal lynching

The woman at the center of the brutal murder of Emmett Till — which helped launch the civil rights movement — has revealed for the first time that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony, reported Vanity Fair. Carolyn Bryant Donham has never spoken publicly since she testified in the murder trial of her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, who were each acquitted less than a month after they kidnapped, tortured and executed the black boy.

After their acquittal, the pair proudly admitted what they’d done to Look magazine, saying they basically had no choice but to kill the teenager for behaving lasciviously toward Bryant’s wife. But Donham, who later divorced Bryant and married twice more in the following years, admitted to author Timothy Tyson that she’d made up some of the claims that led to Till’s death. Donham was 21 years old in 1955, when she spent about one minute alone with the 14-year-old Till, who was visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago, while working in the store she owned with her husband.

The teen, whose mother called him “Bo,” bragged to his cousin and some other boys that he had a white girlfriend back home — and the boys dared him to speak to the woman working behind the counter. A 12-year-old cousin briefly went inside but left Emmett alone with Donham for about a minute, and she later claimed Till had grabbed her and made lewd comments. His cousin, Simeon Wright, recalled decades later that couldn’t have been possible — and, it turns out, he was right.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/not-true-woman-admits-she-made-up-claims-that-led-to-emmett-tills-brutal-lynching/

That woman should be jailed for the remainder of her useless life...

Accessory before, during and after a murder..
Perjury.

And there's usually no 'statute of limitations' on murder in most jurisdictions,  is there  ?

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

That woman should be jailed for the remainder of her useless life...

Accessory before, during and after a murder..
Perjury.

And there's usually no 'statute of limitations' on murder in most jurisdictions,  is there  ?

I certainly agree that she should be charged with perjury.
Not sure on the "statute of limitations", Quill will know I guess.

Disgusting women. Yes she should be jailed, making up these claims.

And lies like hers have fueled countless acts of racism in America, and been used to justify racist attitudes.