At Last

On October 9th 1983, the body of a young man was found in a field off of Minter road, near the small community of Sunnyside, Georgia. Although the man’s killer would confess to different people at least 17 times over the years, the case was not solved until it was reexamined 33 years later.

Sources:

1. https://abcnews.go.com/US/racially-motivated-cold-case-murder-young-black-man/story?id=71702999

2. https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/2019/s19a1582.html

3. https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/us/timothy-coggins-guilty-plea-georgia-cold-case

4. https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/breaking-man-pleads-guilty-cold-case-murder/DPrecu0SkCsfPVi2CnHowJ/

5. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-justice-story-racist-ga-murder-20190205-story.html

6. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/investigators-close-to-solving-34-year-old-cold-case-murder/571125969/

7. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/2-men-accused-in-racially-motivated-cold-case-murder-face-judge/636071565/

8. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/suspect-in-1983-racially-motivated-murder-bragged-about-killing-gbi-says/656310804/

9. https://www.kbzk.com/cnn-national/2018/08/20/two-killers-are-finally-going-to-prison-after-35-years-behind-the-scenes-of-a-cold-case-plea-deal/

10. https://www.sfu.ca/~ganderso/forensicentomology.htm

11. ‘Dragging death case was racial’ Nelson Helm, 2nd Nov 2017, The Atlanta Constitution

12. ‘Two indicted in 1983 Georgia killing’, Nelson Helm, 6th Dec 2017, the Atlanta Constitution

13. ‘Hearing focuses on 1983 murder’ Christian Boone, 1st Dec 2017, The Atlanta Constitution

14. ‘Grave of slain man finally gets headstone decades later’, Don Schanche Jr, AP, 2nd January 2018

15. ‘Half of evidence vanished from 1983 slaying’ AP, 23rd June 2018

16. ‘GBI looking into death of man in Spalding jail’ 3rd Sept 2001, Atlanta Constitution

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