The two men kidnapped him, had three black locals in the back of the truck with him along with white men.
They took him to a shed, dark, armed, and drunk and beaten him to death for hours.
Shooting him in the back of his head, and dumping his body in the river.
They tied his neck to a 75 pound cotton gin fan, his body was decomposing for days until his body was discovered by a fisherman.
His body was then identified by his uncle and investigators. His ring was identified of his body being the body of Emmett Louis Till.
The body that soon changed America.
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Mamie Till Mobley; The death of her son
Short StoryA journalism story of the Emmett Till slaying and his mother's backstory
