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Explore books, movies, podcasts, news coverage, and court records—organized by true crime case and real-life story, together in one place.
THE CASE LIBRARY
U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
1990
Betty Jones and Kathryn Crigler were attacked at a Mississippi home on Labor Day in 1990. The investigation continued for decades, with renewed attention from podcast reporting and advances in DNA analysis.
1963–1994
Civil rights organizer Medgar Evers was shot outside his Jackson home in June 1963. Two early trials failed to produce a verdict, but renewed investigation and his family’s persistence brought Byron De La Beckwith’s murder conviction in 1994. Ghosts of Mississippi follows the case across those three decades.
1961
Interracial groups rode buses through the South to challenge segregation in interstate travel. Riders endured mob attacks, arrests and imprisonment while demanding enforcement of existing court rulings. The campaign helped force federal action against segregated interstate bus facilities.
1955
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was abducted and murdered while visiting Mississippi. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted that the public confront what had happened to him and became an advocate for justice. Her memoir and the film Till center a family’s loss and its place in civil rights history.
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