'Tragedy on top of a tragedy': For Emmett Till's surviving relatives, a Roy and Carolyn Bryant and J . The writer could not produce any recordings or transcripts to back up the allegation, authorities said. She has failed at every turn to offer a redeeming word or action for the boys murder and her part in it. Donham then 21 and named Carolyn Bryant accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store . After hearing more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses, a Leflore County grand jury last week determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter, Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne Richardson said in a news release Tuesday. Milam, and at least one other person burst into Emmett's relatives' home, . I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it, Banks said. "I know that over a period of time, 67 years, nothing has been done as far as this warrant," Sterling told reporters. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi's racist social codes of the era. Till relatives met in March with officials including District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, the lead prosecutor in Leflore County, but left unsatisfied, Watts said. A woman holds a sign in honor of Emmett Till during a protest on June 13, 2020 in Chicago, Ill. Till's family urged authorities to move on a recently discovered unserved warrant from 1955 that charges a white woman for the murder and kidnapping of the teenager. Keith Beauchamp, whose documentary "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till . Rev. Emmett Till's relatives seek his accuser's prosecution in the 1955 kidnapping. We certainly would have wanted her to be arrested and tried for her connection to the crime. There could never be justice for Emmett Till. She was the daughter of a plantation manager and a nurse. "Mississippi is not the Mississippi of 1955, but it seems to still carry some of that era of protecting the white woman," said Deborah Watts, a distant cousin of Till who runs the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation. Sheriff contests lawsuit to arrest Carolyn Donham in Emmett Till case hide caption. An email and voicemail seeking comment from Donham's son Tom Bryant weren't immediately returned Tuesday. Thats not him. Carolyn Bryant (R) with her husband, Roy Sr., during his trial (Image Source)He Passed Away in 1995 at the Age of 43. Roy Bryant and his half brother, J. W. Milam, were arrested and charged with murder. He did not return phone messages or emails seeking comment about a potential kidnapping case. What happened next is a matter of dispute, according to PBS, some accounts said Bryant stormed out of the store and one of the children said she was going to get a pistol. Emmett Till's Cousin: Carolyn Bryant Donham's Death Won't - Insider The Justice Department closed its most recent investigation of the killing in December, when the agency said Donham had denied an author's claim that she had recanted her claims about Till doing something improper to her in the store where she worked in the town of Money.
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