FBI Closes 1964 Civil Rights Case with No Charges Against Former Sheriff’s Deputy
For more than 50 years, Frank Andrews’s family never got justice.
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FBI Investigates 7-Decade-Old Lynching of 2 Black Couples in Georgia
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a brutal lynching even by Georgia’s standards. On July 25, 1946, a white mob tied up a black couple in their 20s and shot them 60 times. The notorious incident became known as the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching. No one has been prosecuted in the case. But The Guardian…
FBI Turns Up Heat on Man Wanted in Murders of 2 Daughters in ’08
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Texas man accused of murdering his two daughters in 2008 was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list, and a reward leading to his arrest has increased as part of an effort to regenerate interest in the largely dormant case, Fox News reports. Prosecutors said Yaser Said, an Egyptian…
Seattle’s New FBI Chief Described ‘Momentum’ In 13-Year-old Murder of Prosecutor
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the Seattle FBI office is wiping off the dust of a 13-year-old investigation into the fatal shooting of a Seattle federal prosecutor after expressing “momentum” in the case, the Seattle Times reports. “It’s an ongoing, active investigation,” Special Agent in Charge Frank Montoya Jr. said during a wide-ranging…
FBI Honors Cleveland’s Deputy Police Chief for Helping Crack Murder Cases
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba refused to give up on a cold case involving the murder of a 14-year-old girl. The chief even visited victim’s mother, Yvonne Pointer, assuring her that authorities weren’t throwing in the towel, Cleveland.com reports. Sure enough, the case broke earlier this year after re-testing old DNA…
FBI Helps Local Police Crack 7-Year Cold Case
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents moved into a local police station in Mountain View, Calif. in January of last year and reopened a 6-year-old cold case, reports Mountain View Patch. This week, three arrests were made in the case, a fatal drive-by shooting of a 17-year-old. “The FBI resources and technology were very valuable…
FBI Challenges NY Times Story on Civil Rights Era Murder Investigations
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s chief spokesman fired off a letter editor to the New York Times challenging a story the paper published that was critical of the bureau’s efforts to solve cold case murders from the civil rights era. “I am concerned that ‘Despite F.B.I. Fanfare, Time Runs Out on Cold…