Tallahatchie River

Bryant and Milam tied a 70-pound cotton-gin around his neck with barbed wire and dumped him in Tallahatchie River.

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His mutilated body was found three days later, floating in the Tallahatchie River.

CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007 2007

His mutilated body was found three days later floating in the Tallahatchie River.

CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007 2007

Later on, some men grabbed him in his sleep, beat him, shot him, and dumped him in the Tallahatchie River.

Super Woman’s Child J. L. Woodson 2006

Later on, some men grabbed him in his sleep, beat him, shot him, and dumped him in the Tallahatchie River.

Super Woman’s Child J. L. Woodson 2006

And what it shows is the condition that Emmett was returned to his mother in, after being in the Tallahatchie River for several days.

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 2004

BENSON: They took him to the Tallahatchie River, where he was dumped.

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 2004

The mutilated body of the 14-year-old from Chicago was found by fishermen three days later in the Tallahatchie River.

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His body was found several days after that in the Tallahatchie River.

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Now, the version of the story that Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam told to "Look" magazine was that Emmett was defiant, that they had just roughed him up a little bit to teach him a lesson, but that he was defiant up to the point of standing at the edge of the Tallahatchie River, and in effect, dared them to kill him.

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 2004