Tag: racism
Leon Turner and the Whitt brothers, 1950
On Jan. 1, 1950 ne’er do well brothers Malcolm and Windol Whitt, and Leon Turner broke out of the Attalla County Jail in Mississippi. The three men were serving time for the attempted rape of a 15 year-old black girl named Verlena Harris. Leon Turner had suffered the shame of being convicted for molesting a […]
Posted: November 8th, 2013 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1950s, Murder, racism, Sex Crimes
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