Today episode is our second of four featuring civil rights crimes. This one is particularly harsh. No word of a lie, it’s very upsetting, barbaric, heinous, really all the awful descriptors imaginable.

It is the case of the lynching of James Byrd Jr. He was unfortunate enough to be walking home after a night out and encountered a car full of racists. Two of the three perpetrators met whilst in prison and were members of the same white supremacy group. What they did next was some of the worst abuses I have ever heard of. It affected me so much that it took me twice as long to write up because I was so disturbed.

They didn’t just kill him, they brutalized him, they tried to destroy him. Even in death, even till recently, he has been degraded further. His grave has been repeatedly desecrated, racist remarks painted and carved into it. But his light shines on. New legislation came into effect, signed into law but our first black president.

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So we are doing something a little different for the next few episodes. For Black History Month, we wanted to cover some civil rights crimes and with everything going on in this country, and the world at the moment, it’s more important than ever to know our history and to try and avoid going back to the way it used to be.

This episode is covering the lynching of Michael Donald. He was a well loved and respected, 19 year old man who did nothing more than walk along the street to save his niece from going to the store at night. This was all it took for the Klan to grab him and murder him in a profoundly violent way.

This wasn’t a turn of the century thing or in the 1960’s, this was in 1981. What the Klan didn’t count on though was a mother whose love for her son and her faith gave her the strength to take on the organization and get justice for Michael.

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In today’s episode we are finally ending our series covering the crimes of serial killer, and pedophile, Robert Black. It has been an intense journey through his life and to be honest, we are glad it’s over.

We end this chapter by showing how he was connected to the Jennifer Cardy case which we covered in episode 24. However we also cover what other crimes he has been connected to, some are more compelling than others but one thing is for certain, there are monsters out there and this episode proves it.

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