While waiting to drop him off to the police outside the, Killing of Maurice Connelly (insurance solicitor) in a burglary gone wrong. His overseer was James Cunningham. SUETT, Will black, race prejudice, 23 Dec 1896, Graves. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) The State Disgraced by a Supine Set of OfficersAn Unmitigated Outrage Against Law and Decency. Jackson, Lizzie; Jackson, Andy; Hayes, Frank; Norman, Joe; Rogers, Willie. Duncan's and Coker's employer testified that they were at his business at the time of the crime against Edwards, and other evidence suggested that they and Allen were all innocent. Only criminal case ever with direct involvement of the U.S. Supreme Court; see. The case and two others helped lead to the. Before his release, however, Browder died in prison of tuberculosis. Moore was before a magistrate when a crowd took him away and hanged him naked from a tree. person will not be tolerated. When he asked if they had died in an accident, she responded, No, boy, they were lynched.. His Most Atrocious Assault on an Officer Avenged. Grand jury refused to indict. Allen was defending his son. [324], Sheriff Jesse Gilbert of Winnsboro arrested eight people for involvement in the murder, P. M. Usery Sr., Albert Farrington, P. M. Usery Jr., J. C. Farrington, Charley Parson, George Wactor, Charlie Calendor and Eugene Bradshaw. Sponsored by American Family Insurance, Stories Behind the Postcards: Paintings and Collages of Jennifer Scott. TURNER, Jack black, murder, 9 Dec 1889, Green. There a noose was placed around his neck and he was hanged 15 feet in the air from a cherry tree. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal), In this Friday, Aug. 14, 1936 file picture, a large crowd watches as attendants adjust a black hood over Rainey Bethea's head just before his public hanging in Owensboro, Ky. Bethea, a 22-year-old black man convicted of murdering and robbing a 70-year-old white woman, was the last person killed in a public execution in the United States. Obituaries and death notices are paid. Jesse had a hole in his head, and his stomach was cut open. Murderer Offers Resistance, and is Shot Twice. Resisting arrest; killing three citizens and wounding two, Deputy Sheriff William A Bergin was either mortally wounded by suspect. Burned to death. One of them ran back to Jesses farm to let the family know what was happening. Thompson describes his mother -- and by extension, Owensboro -- as hard working and committed to carrying out her duties as required. J.P. McDougall was whipping Allen Turner's son. Sheriff Thompson consulted with a priest before deciding to go through with the hanging, the magazine said: "Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: 'I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting -- or trying to forget'.". Wright Smith was identified by Mary Morrison as the man who broke into her house and assaulted her. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) Entire police force fired. Accused of murdering a U.S. marshal during the, A mob took the three Mexicans and hanged them from a tree. To avoid lynching, one of the four, Elias Scraggs, slit his own throat. A large lynch mob approached the jail that night to get Browder, but Logan County Jailer James Butts snuck him out and hid him in an African-American cemetery for the night. Taken from the county jail, stripped naked, hanged in the courthouse yard and her body riddled with bullets and left exposed to view. Killing a police officer, and wounding three other people, Sheriff: "I don't know who killed the nigger and I don't give a damn.". Jailors abandoned the jail allowing a mob to take Caesar Sheffield to a field where they shot him multiple times and left his body. RAY, George black, bad reputation, 25 Apr 1895, Washington. The national True Reformer organization was established in 1881 as a mutual aid society for Blacks. What was different this time was that a Kentucky postmaster, Gus Breathered, found the lynching postcard offensive and complained to the Post Office Department now the U.S. A Crime for Which the Perpetrators Out to be Made to Pay with Their LivesThe Whole State Demands It", "Marking a Tragedy: Historical Plaque will Memorialize 1875 Lynching", "Lynching in America / Lynchings In Oxford, OH Historical Marker", "Lynching Victim is Honored with Soil Collection Ceremony in Poolesville", "Confronting a dark history; lynchings in Montgomery County", "Lynch Mobs Killed Latinos Across the West. We'd love to hear eyewitness (Atlanta, Ga.) 18981920, March 31, 1902, Image 2", "The Abbeville press and banner. The three men later on snuck into the hospital, kidnapped the man where they later hung from a tree near an abandoned ranch. Helping two Black prisoners to escape who had killed two law officers. The video came at the request of defense attorneys who want to document the effects of the sedative pentobarbital, part of the lethal injection method. Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree. If you are already a subscriber, Register to activate your digital account. Phone: (414) 209-3640 Gang-raped and lynched together with her son, 14, after trying to protect him during a meat-pilfering investigation. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the postCivil War period occurred in the Southern states. Tied to a tree and tortured with blowtorches to extract a confession. Deputy Sheriff George Williams killed by mob who then shot and killed prisoner, Jim Redmond, Gus Roberson, and Bob Addison. Be Proactive. Angry about Pippin's acquittal, a mob of 20 people dragged him from under the floorboards of his father's house and hanged him. A group of men thought another man might be inside Ashley's house, so they shot into the house, mortally wounding Ashley. On February 21, 1891, almost exactly 129 years before white vigilantes fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, a mob of white men lynched two black men named Wesley Lewis and Henry Jackson just outside of Brunswick. When no Logan County lawyers would take the case, Browders father persuaded two prominent Bowling Green attorneys to represent his son John Rhodes and James Sims. Native Americans, Asian Americans and Italian-Americans[6][7] were also lynched. Flooding disrupted the daily lives of business owners and residents, and many properties were destroyed or Pair suspected in the robbery and shooting of a shopkeeper. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people. Lynch mob of thousands broke into jail and took Smith, Alleged sexual improprieties with two young white girls, Hanged and shot by mob who broke into jail. All were rounded up together and lynched to "teach the lawless Italians a salutary lesson." Smith was arrested and a white mob soon gathered. The three defendants were sentenced to death but the governor commuted to life one man's sentence. He ran out the front, where he encountered the rest of the group. Three men had seized William Anderson and chained him inside a car. It read: Let this be a warning to you n-----s to leave white people alone or you will go the same way. Forced to jump to his death in the Suwanee River. Get an email notification whenever someone contributes to the discussion. Pulled from a car and shot our times by masked men. Simms was shackled and in jail when a mob searched the jailor for his keys and took Simms away, irons and all, and hanged him from a tree. A group of vigilantes broke into the jail, seized McCrory and hanged him from a bridge. The wife of a popular farmer, Mrs Dewey, was attacked. On February 4, 1891, three white men took Jesus Salceda and hanged him from an oak tree for supposedly seducing one of the white men's daughters. [citation needed], Ortiz from jail at gunpoint and hanged him from the Virginia Street Bridge. Of those, 3,446 were black. ; Furz, Hugh;Johnson, Bell, Peter; Harrison; Morral, Ralph. Fifteen men and teenage boys were indicted, but all were acquitted at trials. Closed early on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. Massie last year voted against a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. When constables walked out with Hamilton, the crowd seized and hanged him. Mr. Estes was taken from his jail cell at 2:00a.m. by a mob of 50 or 75 persons and hanged in front of the courthouse. Let us know what's going on! hanged from a lamppost at Cameron and Lee Sts., site of several lynchings. Taken by a mob and hanged from a tree before he could be transported to Rockville for a trial. Still, James Thompson said his mother lived with the decision to carry out the execution until she died in 1961. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 18681915, August 03, 1910, Image 6", "Lynching memorial shows women were victims, too", Eric S. Smith, "Zachariah Walker's lynching haunts the city", "Arming at El Paso to Repulse the Mexicans", "Burn Negro At Stake: Second Lynching for Murder of Mrs. Williams", "Mexican Americans faced racial terror from 19101920", "Negro Who Assaults White Man in Union Parish Put to Death", "Drive Out Negroes:Undesirables are driven out of Byhalia following lynching", "De La Rosa killed in Battle with Ranchers", "Americans Slay Ten Mexicans October 19, 1915", "Jones Co. family wants to shed light on dark past", "The Norman Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. Gilmer was accused of shooting Wood, who had whipped Gilmer for using offensive language near his wife. "Horrible fury of the mob500 horsemen." Arrested along with brother Mark in connection with a suspected murder of a white man, he was taken by a white mob, tied to a telephone pole with barbed wire, and burned. ROSSIMUS, Frank white, attempted murder, 17 July 1891, Bell. It was used to kill hopes for freedom. Five men were tried and acquitted. The execution drew national media coverage focused on a black man being executed by a white, female sheriff with the help of a professional hangman. WebThat research led to a 2015 report documenting thousands of lynchings across 12 Southern states between 1877 and 1950, including 168 lynchings of people of color in Kentucky. When the news spread across the city, a mob hanged Salazar due to the suspicion of him being the murderer. People break down and cry, some get down on their knees and pray quietly, he said. After trying to escape a mob that surrounded the 14-year-old boy, he ended up killing a German man named Charles Zieschang which led to the 14 year olds arrest. The others were hanged. Use the 'Report' link on Livestock theft and murder of a posse member. Brown Makes an Appeal in Behalf of Law and Order", "Historic Structure Report for Rancho San Andrs Castro Adobe", Helena weekly herald. Dragged from his jail cell and hung from a telegraph pole. "Vanished"; believed to have been killed because a white man coveted his successful saloon business. Around 100 black people left Sikeston and never returned. "No one knows where he's buried," said Sheila Heflin, information services manager at the Daviess County Public Library, which has an archive of materials related to Bethea's case. Taken forcibly from hospital. Wearing uniform of his WWI military service to the United States. Today's news and culture by Black and other reporters in the Black and mainstream media. Garcia was never seen again. Hanged by a mob. WebJun 21, 2022 Lynching in the United States is estimated to have claimed over 4.7 thousand lives between 1882 and 1968, and just under 3.5 thousand of these victims were black. One rope for two men (Patterson and West) was used which snapped. Rhodes was looking back three decades on the power of mob violence he saw firsthand as one of the lawyers in a 1908 shooting case in Russellville involving an African American named Rufus Browder. A Negro Murderer Lynched by a Few Citizens in NashvilleA Mob Looking On and Endorsing the Deed. This Pullman Porter was dragged off his train and lynched. Shot and killed by a mob led by the victim's husband who identified Green as the murderer. Abducted from jail by a mob. WILLIS, Wick black, attempted rape, 31 May 1892, Adair. None (Klan looked to kill a black man because accused killer of white policeman got mistrial). McDaniels shot, Townes burned alive. Browder was wounded, Cunningham was dead. Manslaughter of Deputy Sheriff Walter C. Byrd. To them he responds: Shouldnt the truth be told?, This is necessary these are necessary conversations, he said, adding that issues related to the conditions that led to lynchings are still relevant today. When returned for a court hearing and while under heavy guard, a mob led by George Hall pulled Dillingham and the Gillepsies, father and son, from their jail cells. But there still are direct descendants of the lynching victims living in Logan County, such as Drusilla Jones, John Jones granddaughter. Around two o'clock in the morning on December 26, 1911, a mob broke into the unguarded jail where Johnson was kept. Three Klansmen (Henry Hays, James Knowles, and Benjamin Cox) were convicted of Donald's murder. Accusations of rape added to incite lynching. He asked a white woman to wait until he had prepared another woman's train berth, Taken from jail by a mob of approximately 1,000 to the town square and hanged. Even though Harris had a history of break and enters he professed his innocence. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Museum Community FREE Days: Sat, Feb 25th 10am to 5pm CT & Sun, Feb 26th 12 to 5pm CT. WHITE, Thomas black, unknown crime, 10 Sept 1896, Caldwell. When Thomas River was arrested the community threatened to lynch him. Mob broke into jail and hung him from a bridge. The girls, when questioned by police, admitted they were unsure if Bell was in fact the same man who had accosted them. Charged with detaining Miss Mary Coley, a young white girl. Postcard of victim postmarked 1911 appeared in Crisis Magazine January 1912 p.118, Picture of victims appeared in Crisis Magazine Twice; first a cropped picture of one victim in December 1911 in article "Jesus Christ in Georgia" (p.70). [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) Later taken back to Goodlettsville. I started to hit him, when he drew a gun from his pocket and shot me in the breast. An N.A.A.C.P. Browder was arrested and sent to Louisville. Alleged accomplice to murder of white overseer. In Kentucky, it was used to kill three of my uncles. When the sheriff arrived, he cut Marshall down and was putting him in the car when Marshall made noise indicating he was alive. The local lodge, located in the Ash Spring community, supposedly had passed two resolutions after Browders arrest: one declaring the belief that Browder had acted in self-defense and the other pledging that Browder would be provided the best legal defense possible at his trial. Many lynched before trial was concluded. Newspapers treat it as a lynching. (Published 1867)", "Chapter 10. Professionally photographed; pictures sold as postcards. Several men were hiding in the woods entrance waiting for him. SKINNER, John Henry black, attempted murder, 14 Mar 1888, Christian. Man charged with lynching acquitted. "There was a feeling that with the pain and botched hangings it was inviting the worst in human behavior," Denno said. Taken out of his prison cell and lynched by a mob on the public square. The exact number of lynchings is unknown as many cases went unreported, but history professor George C. Wright, in the research for his 1990 book, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940, found documentation of at least 353 lynchings during that time in Kentucky. Attempting to criminally assault an eight-year-old white girl. The Equal Justice Initiatives Community Remembrance Project involves a multi-step process to promote racial reconciliation while acknowledging the past, which includes public meetings and involvement of schools, as well as placing historic markers. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. They later found out that they had mistaken Jesus Salceda for another Mexican. Accused of helping kill an abusive landowner. Many black homes burned to discourage citizens from coming forward, Assaulted a white women, Mrs. Virgie Haggard. Statistics of reported lynching in the United States indicate that, between 1882 and 1951, 4,730 persons were lynched, of whom 1,293 were white and 3,437 were black. Body then dragged behind car and hanged, and fire lit under it. It was Rhodes, writing to his daughter years later, who observed the ease with which lynch mobs formed in Logan County. A noose was placed around his neck and he was dragged by horse to the town square where he was hanged. Thank you for reading the Tribune. Taken together from jail by mob and hanged. When officials tried to move Smith to another jail he was seized, hanged from a tree and his body riddled with bullets. Greonimo was suspected to have assaulted one of the white woman in the town which led to him being shot and left dead. That's certainly the way Bethea's death was portrayed nationally. "I think it was over there," said Howe, an 81-year-old lifelong Owensboro resident and retired county coroner. When Browder said moving his ailing wife could kill her, Cunningham said he didnt care and would show Browder his place, according to a Browder interview with the Louisville Courier Journal in August of that year. A state jury in 2005 found the Ku Klux Klan organizer. Attempted rape of a 10-year-old white girl. Bethea, a farmhand and sometime criminal, went to the gallows near the banks of the Ohio River before a throng of people estimated at as many as 20,000 strong. Retracing the path of controversial Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe includes many stops in Connecticut. Morrow said lynchings were about intimidation, and the rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., just one year ago this month was also about intimidation.. Bernice King upholds her parents' legacy, Out and About: What's happening in Philly, Family, friends, Temple and law enforcement celebrate fallen officer, Philly native named 2023 regional youth poet laureate. Three men (Eugene Marshall, Wade Patterson, James West) lynched at the same time after the mob broke into jail after threatening the jailer for the keys. Isidro was accused to have choke Harry Hinton to death and escaped from jail. As of 2019, Rembert is a successful leatherwork artist. Logan County was especially The purpose was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate black people through racial terrorism. The mob placed a rope around Taylor's neck and dragged him down the steps and out of the jail into Cross Street. In this historic election, the choice is clear. WebLynchings in Kentucky From KYGenWeb Lynchings were hangings of course, but where the citizens took the law into their own hands. ?, November 15, 1919, Image 1", "America's Black Holocaust Museum | Lige Daniels", "A pair of lynchings year before massacre shook Tulsa", "Lynching of Henry Cade November 20, 1921", "The Lynching of Jess Eley as submitted to the National Peace Museum Montgomery Alabama", "Lynching of "Curly" Hackney December 13, 1921", United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1926, "Lynching victim remembered 100 years later with headstone, corrected death certificate", "New plaque memorializes 1923 lynching victim James T. Scott", "Mob Lynches Negro Boy Who Shot Grocer. Perpetrators convicted; two executed, one to life imprisonment. Taken from jail by a mob, hanged, then riddled with bullets. A mob of 3540 heavily armed men broke into the jail, seized Whitley and hanged him from a tree about a mile and a half away. Mob broke lock on jail, took Buddington out of town and shot him to death. Marshall was lynched in front of a crowd of 1,000. Believed to have assaulted a white woman in her home. that is degrading to another person. Attempted murder of his employer's wife following a wage dispute. A masked mob broke into the jail cell with sledge hammers, dragged Quinn and Tom McLain from the jail and hanged both from a gum tree with the same rope. ), Vol. Commander Blocksom ordered an investigation to investigate the killings. Sixty-three indictments, but the North Carolina Legislature, to end their cases, repealed the law they were charged with violating. Its an unpleasant story, Morrow said. Hung by a large party of masked men. Mayor voted out. [volume], February 06, 1873, Page 7, Image 7, https://crimecapsule.com/giovanni-chiesa-immigrant-miner-martyr-coal-war/, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ib87rSy7x5MC&dat=18730808&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, "A Fearful Outrage. Orozco successfully executed a planned escape to Sierra Blanca where he met up with leaders and future cabinet members where they crossed into Dick Love's ranch who accused them of stealing his horses and later got the Rangers and other law enforcement to look for the men where they found the men camping in a box canyon where they killed all 5 of the men. The next morning, he took him to Bowling Green for safekeeping to await his trial. 2003 and 2016 books on this investigation. On May 11, 1914, Leon was executed by hanging. An angry white mob broke into the jail and took Shaw, lynching him in. ABHM builds public awareness of the harmful legacies of slavery and Jim Crow in America and promotes racial repair, reconciliation, and healing. Widely publicized and privately investigated. (Library of Congress), "Lynching of Aureliano Castelln January 26, 1896", "The Kinsley graphic. Shown are names, race, crime, date of lynching, county. That number puts Logan behind only Fulton County in the number of lynchings in the state, by some estimates. Grand jury did not indict. Son of man believed to have killed lawman. Publicly opposed and threatened legal action against white people who had murdered her husband, unfairly accused (according to her) of killing an abusive landowner. Kentucky was the last state to do so. Again, this list certainly isn't complete, but white, adultery, 29 Dec 1895, Marion, DICKERSON, Charles black, burglary, 4 May 1884, Boone, DUDLEY, James black, murder, 28 Aug 1891, Scott, ELLIS, George white, rape & murder, 3 June 1882, Boyd, EMBERTON, Bishop white, rape, 2 Aug 1882, Christian, FINLEY, George black, prejudice, 23 Dec 1896, Graves, FOSTER, James black, rape, 10 June 1888, Henderson, GADLY, Caleb black, attempted rape, 25 June 1894, Warren, GAINES, Caleb black, attempted rape, 16 June 1898, Barren, GAMBLE, M. G. black, rape, 21 Jan 1894, Whitley likely, GIBSON, Lige unknown race, murder, 27 Jan 1892, Owen, GILLESPIE, Bill black, murder, 5 July 1884, Nicholas, GILLAND, James unknown race, murder, 15 Sept 1891, Pulaski, GILLAND, Joe unknown race, murder, 16 Sept 1891, Pulaski, GOIN, Pleas white, murder, 14 Dec 1898 Bell, GOUGH, Leonard black, murderous assault, 28 Aug 1893, Henry, GRAINGER, Jobe black, threats, 24 July 1891, Simpson, GRIFFEY, Willis black, assault/rape, 14 Oct 1894, Christian, GRUELL, Dan white, swindler, 19 Mar 1890, Harrison, HAGGARD, Robert black, attempted rape, 16 July 1895, Clark, HARPER, Bob black, rape, 28 Dec 1892, Warren, HENDERSON, Dick black, cutting a while boy, 6 July 1884, Todd, HENDERSON, John black, murder, 21 Aug 1890, Woodford, HICKS, Wes white, burning a barn, 26 May 1885, Simpson, HILL, Charles black, rape, 9 June 1892, McCracken, HOWARD, Marion black, rape, 16 July 1894, Allen Co, HOWARDTON, John white, rape, 16 May 1895, Crittenden, HUMPHREYS, Ernest black, murder, 1 Oct 1890, Caldwell, JACKSON, Wm unknown race, murder, 10 Mar 1887, Pendleton, JONES, Doc black, murder, 19 Dec 1889, Daviess, JONES, Meredith black, rape, 28 Apr 1886, Logan, KELLY, James black, rape, 26 July 1889, Bourbon, KENNEDY, Claude black, attempted rape, 24 May 1895, Union, KILBURN, Henry white, murder, 9 Apr 884, possibly Breathitt, LAFERDETTA, Louis white, murder, 17 July 1894, Boone, LEWIS, Harrison black, murder, 26 Aug 1895, Washington, LUCAS, W J male, resisted a mob, 14 July 1884, Daviess, MARTIN, Edward unknown, arson and theft, 30 Oct 1894, Crittenden, MARTIN, Fount unknown race, barn burning, 15 Feb 1896, Wayne, MARTIN, John white, murder, 10 Dec 1884, Rowan, MAY, Richard black, attempted rape,14 July 1884, Daviess, MILLER, Seay J. black, rape, murder, 7 July 1892, Carlisle, MITCHELL, James black, rape, 16 June 1882, Montgomery, MITCHELL, Josh black, theft, 7 Jan 1894, Harrison, MORTON, Oscar unknown, murder, 14 Oct 1894, Lee, MORTON, Robert black, insulted a white woman, 4 Feb 1897, Warren, MURPHY, Logan unknown race, murder, 16 Aug 1892, Montgomery, NALLS, Gabe unknown race, arson and theft, 4 Nov 1894, Crittenden, NALLS, Ulysses unknown race, arson and theft, 4 Nov 1894, Crittenden, NARY, Eli black, burned barn, 15 Mar 1888, Fulton, NORTH, Alexander black, attempted rape, 22 Mar 1886, Logan, PETTY, Miles black, rape, 9 May 1884, Hardin, POOLE, Felix unknown race, rape, 1 Aug 1892, Ohio, PORTER, Austin white, murder, 6 June 1892, Carter, PRICE, Samuel white, murder, 27 Feb 1888, Hickman, PROCTER, Arch white, murder, 18 Dec 1896, Logan, PROCTER, Dink white, murder, 18 Dec 1896, Logan, PROCTER, Wm white, murder, 18 Dec 1896, Logan, PULLIAM, Sam black, rape, 20 July 1891, Anderson. Sending Christmas card with "a note expressing his affection" to a white girl. The two Mexicans natives were accused of shooting and killing a patrolman Jeff Evans, which they were arrested and charged for. Beaten, tied to a tree, riddled with bullets and lit on fire. Killed his white employer in self-defense. Objected to her daughter being taken out for "rides" with white Klansmen. 4 blacks killed over 100 years ago? The report of the affair and the subsequent coverup led to the, Accused of murdering his ex-wife and shooting 5 others. Serving 6-month sentence when taken from jail and hanged. Just a year before, in Smithland, Ky., a convicted rapist scolded the crowd and argued with his accuser before telling the sheriff, "Do a good job with that knot.". Saladino, Lorenzo; Arena, Salvatore; Giuseppe Venturella. Lynched by a mob after an extrajudicial "trial". Under the law at the time, the maximum penalty for a rape conviction was hanging in the county where the offense occurred. 1000 men broke through three steel doors to abduct Clay from jail before hanging, shooting, and burning him. Accused of getting into an altercation with a white man. A mob broke into the jail captured and hung from the girders of a Bridge. Threatening and frightening a white woman with a pen knife. When he refused to open the back door, they broke in. THOMAS, John black, rape, 17 July 1887, Madison. By 9:00p.m. on May 19, nearly 1,000 men and women gathered at the jail. They rushed him to the hospital where three men had called the hospital asking if the Mexican was being guarded by authorities which the nurse confirmed he wasn't. After seeing Scraggs, Thompson and Despano die, a fourth man after "a good deal of reluctance" avoided lynching by implicating five others, including Simpson's own son-in-law, though the son-in-law was "generally considered innocent.". 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