The African American teen was murdered for allegedly flirting with Carolyn. Carolyn Bryant Donham the white woman at the center of Emmett Tills death has died at age 88. While they were standing outside a store, Emmett was allegedly telling his cousins his girlfriend back home was white. Emmett was a Black boy visiting family in Mississippi. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. She later divorced Roy and remarried twice. Carolyn Bryant stepped away from the spotlight after recanting her testimony and began to live a private life. The Guardian has learned that a reinvestigation of the boys murder that has been carried out by the FBI over the past three years could be wrapped up in weeks. It set in train a sequence of events that led African Americans in the south to make an unprecedented stand, sparking the civil rights movement. She needs to do her time in jail. Shes old, I dont want her in jail, she said. appreciated. The two men beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river where his body was discovered three days later. A lot of things have been said about what went on, things that incriminated Emmett, made him out to be a bad boy from Chicago, he said. As the Till family anxiously awaits news of the FBIs investigation, Edwards and another of Emmetts cousins, Deborah Watts, are launching a new push for redress on behalf of Emmett Till as well as the hundreds of other victims of racially motivated murders from the civil rights era whose cases have never been solved. Per the DOJ, when asked about the recantation, Carolyn "denied to the FBI that she ever recanted her testimony." One hundred days after the murder, Rosa Parks was riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, when the driver ordered her to move to the segregated black seats at the back.