Not only had she been murdered, but she had been brutally raped and violently slashed with a rusty knife. Despite police efforts, the investigation came to a halt. Fifteen years after the murder, new evidence was obtained but the murderer has still not been caught. Columbia School District. In August of , the naked body of Kimberly Rowell was found on the playground of Columbia Primary School with her clothes folded and placed neatly in a pile beside her.
The case remained cold for nearly 20 years until the arrest of James K. The Mississippi Link. And while the murders alone were shocking, the manner in which the couple was murdered was even more shocking — each was shot in the head four times.
Eventually, with the help of a private investigator, several were charged with the murders of the Sherrys. While the African American teenager was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, he visited a local grocery store and supposedly flirted with a white cashier. As a result of this minute act, he was kidnapped by two white men who beat and shot him. The two men who committed the crime were tried, but an all-white, male jury acquitted the pair.
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