Family members of the late Emmett Till met in Jackson this past weekend to call for Mississippi's Attorney General to bring murder charges against Carolyn Bryant Donham. In 1955, Donham notoriously told her husband Roy that Till had whistled at her outside a grocery in Money, Mississippi. Roy and his half-brother proceeded to kidnap, torture, and kill Till. They were found not guilty for their crimes by an all-White jury.
Decades later, a writer named Tim Tyson claimed Donham confessed to him she lied about the whislting incident. But even if Tyson's allegation is true, it's unlikely Donham will ever face charges relating to the lynching. That's according to Ron Rychlack, who's a professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law.