He arrived on their front doorstep and said he'd take them to their missing sister; then he led them down railroad tracks and, they remembered, to the mouth of the shallow grave that held her dead body. But did E. D. Johnson, who told police he saw Virginia walking near the railroads tracks on the day her family last saw her, rape, stab and strangle her, and leave her lifeless body in the grave on the edge of a woods in Richland County SC?
(Richland County is part of the Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area. Columbia is the state's capital.)
Even though she'd followed him down the tracks and, later, heard him confess to committing the crime, Virginia's 15-year-old sister, Lucille, thought E. D. Johnson was too old and infirm to have committed the murder, and police records do not indicate that he was a person of interest at the time - nearly 55 years ago now, in April of 1964. It’s officially Richland County’s oldest cold case.
But did police even care?
>The medical examiner’s report gave Virginia’s name and then “(F-C),” meaning female, colored. It said where her body was examined, Leevy’s Funeral Home, and the date the postmortem was done. The brief report gives her age as 14 even though she was only 13.
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>To the Williams family, the wrong age is just one example of the authorities’ apathy in the case.
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>Freddie Johnson and Sabrina Williams in recent years reviewed the original Richland County Sheriff’s Department case file from 1964. The lack of evidence and documentation struck both of them.
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>“I think it’s pretty clear they didn’t do an investigation,” Sabrina said. “There’s nothing in that file.”
A mere "those were different times" fails to disperse the ghosts of ancient prejudice, and wounds cannot heal until their causes are found and exposed to the light.
Is it too late to find a solution? Over half a century ago an African-American girl met her fate one bright spring day. In addition to Johnson, a man who was a prisoner confessed to the killing; his confession, too, was deemed false. And her family considered a young man who was her teenage sweetheart - he had given Virginia a ring, which was found to be missing when her body was discovered - to be a possibility.
But it's hard when the police don't do their due diligence. It sounds as if, clearly, that was the case here.
Can justice be found for the dead child her sisters called G-Boo? While justice delayed may be justice denied, even a late e
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FINAL SCORE:
MANCHESTER UNITED (Di Maria, Herrera, Rooney, Mata) 4 - 0 QUEENS PARK RANGERS
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Barclays Premier League Tie between Manchester United F.C. and Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Date: September 14th, 2014
Kick off BST: 16:00
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester
Referee: Phil Dowd
Weather: 17°C, 75% Humidity, 10 km/h Wind
Starting XI's:
| Manchester United F.C. | Queens Park Rangers F.C. |
|---|---|
| De Gea | Green |
| Rojo | Hill |
| Evans | Ferdinand |
| Blackett | Caulker |
| Blind | Phillips |
| Herrera | Fer |
| Di Maria | Sandro |
| Rafael | Kranjacar |
| Mata | Isla |
| Rooney (C) | Austin |
| van Persie | Hoilett |
Man Utd F.C. SUBS: Lindegaard, Shaw, Fletcher, Januzaj, Valencia , A Pereira, Falcao
Queens Park Rangers F.C. SUBS: Traore, McCarthy, Onuoha, Henry, Vargas, Zamora, Taarabt.
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I wish every episode wouldn't end after it's over. I can't wait for the next one. The acting is top notch. The writing is top notch. I can't think of a series in the last 10 years that I was so excited about. I'm a big 'ole fan girl.
