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—_= _ LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE ba Repotot = SMe Office: IACKSON Date: February 9, 2006 Case ID#: 44A-JN-30112 62D-JN-30045 NARRATIVE OF THE OFFENSE I. SYNOPSIS: On August 24, 1955, Emmett Louis Tul, a fourteen-year-old black male from Chicago, Illinois, visiting relatives in Leflore County, Mississippi, entered the Bryant Grocery & Meat Market in the town of Money, Mississippi. Till exited the store and shortly thereafter Carolyn Bryant, the store owner's wife, exited as well. Upon Carolyn Bryant's exit, Till whistled. The relatives accompanying him knew his whistle would cause trouble and they left in haste, taking Till with them. On August 28, 1955, at approximately 2:30 a.m., Roy Bryant (Carolyn Bryant’s husband), J.W. Milam and at least one other person appeared at the home of Mose Wright, Till's great uncle, looking for the boy who had "done the talking" in Money and abducted Till from the home. Following Till’s abduction, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were arrested by the Leflore County Sheriff's Department and charged with kidnaping. On August 31, 1955, a naked body presumed to be Till’s was found floating in a section of the Tallahatchie River running along the border between Tallahatchie and Leflore Counties. A seventy-five pound cotton gin fan was tied with barbed wire to the neck of the floating body and there was extensive trauma to the head. Upon discovery of the body and its subsequent 6 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency,