in (sexually motivated) homicides [19, 20] and that hanging is the most common method of suicide [21]. Distinguishing be-tween these types of cases can be difficult, though definitions and …

Nordan’s proximity to the murder developed into a thirty-eight-year obsession with the case, a strengthening sense of shame over adolescent disrespect for the dead and, by extension, an …

Emmett Till's dead body, like the body of James Byrd just yesterday in Texas, reminded us that the bad old days are never farther away than the thickness of skin, skin some people still claim …

I'd never understood the dead. Shied away from talk of death, thoughts of the dead. The transforma- tion of my grandfather the instant he became one of the dead Looking at Emmett …

60 65 ‘Unhappy spirit, I promise you the barrow and the burial.’ So we conversed, and grimly, at a distance, with my long sword between, guarding the blood, while the faint image of the lad …

Nordan’s proximity to the murder developed into a thirty-eight-year obsession with the case, a strengthening sense of shame over adolescent disrespect for the dead and, by extension, an …

The Face of Emmett Till (formerly: The State of Missis sippi and the Face of Emmett Till) by David Barr III and Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, was first produced by Pegasus …