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® @ LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE Police Officer, took photographs of the body. Miller then prepared the body for burial in Money, Mississippi, and transported the body to a cemetery there. The body was not buried and Miller carried the body back to his funeral home in Greenwood, Mississippi. He later delivered the body to an undertaker in Tutwiler, Mississippi. Miller stated the body was not clothed when he observed it in the boat. Muller - described the body as. approximately five foot four or five inches in height, weighing approximately one hundred-fifty or one hundred-sixty pounds, “looked to be that of a colored person" and "the flesh in the palm of the hand, well, it looked like it was the body of a young person. And from certain parts of the body -- well, in my experience = im” in handling those kinds of bodies, by certain parts of the body it looked like a youth more so than a grown person or an older person.” Miller described what he saw of the body as "the whole crown of his head, from here above (indicating with his hand) was just crushed in.” Miller also said "The crown of his head was just crushed out and in, you know, and a piece of his skull just fell out there in the boat, maybe three inches long or maybe two and a half inches wide, something like that.". "I saw a hole in the skull," further describing the hole as "Oh, about -~- maybe half an inch square, something like that", located about three- quarters of an inch above the right ear. The other side of the head was "crushed on the other side. You couldn't tell too much it’ was crushed so. And it was all cut up and gashed across the top there." Miller said the wounds he described were sufficient to cause death, but could not tell if the wounds were caused before or after death or "in a car accident or otherwise..." '“# ‘** Appendix A - Transcript - State of Mississippi vs. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie ' County, Seventeenth Judicial District, September 1955 - Testimony of Chester Miller, 64 to 80 and 94 to 99 75 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. [t is the property of the FBI and is foaned to your agency; it and its . contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.