Does A Secret Memoir by Emmet Till’s Accuser Offer Enough to Convict Her?
The 109-page memoir contradicts Carolyn Bryant Donham's original statement to her husband's defense lawyer.
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Dale Killinger, the retired FBI agent who investigated the 1955 murder of Emmet Till, says that the secret memoir by the 88-year-old white woman at the center of the Emmett Till case contains new proof she is lying about the night he was killed, reports MCIR. The 109-page memoir contradicts Carolyn Bryant Donham’s original statement to her husband’s defense lawyer, Sidney Carlton, where she claimed that when her husband, Roy Bryant, brought Till to her, he “was scared but hadn’t been harmed. He didn’t say anything.
Roy asked if that was the same one, and I told him it was not the one who had insulted me.” Killinger said Donham’s claim in her memoir also contradicts what she told him in 2005 — that Till said nothing when his kidnappers brought him to her. Lying to an FBI agent is a crime. Still, any false statements Donham made to Killinger more than a decade ago would be barred from prosecution because perjury carries a five-year statute of limitations. If she made any false statements to the FBI more recently, the door for prosecution would remain open.
