The Mexican government has reported for the first time that a body was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio Grande river, across from Eagle Pass, Texas

The Mexican government has reported for the first time that a body was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio Grande river, across from Eagle Pass, Texas

  • @gAlienLifeform
    10•1 year ago

    Update on this story, they ended up recovering two bodies. Haunting similarity to what happened with Emmet Till James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,and Michael Schwerner , when the FBI dredged the Mississippi for their bodies they found a number of lynching victims they weren’t even looking for.

    e; I misremembered which hate crime the FBI was investigating when this happened, the Wikipedia article I linked under the correct names also notes

    During the investigation, searchers including Navy divers and FBI agents discovered the bodies of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in the area (the first was found by a fisherman). They were college students who had disappeared in May 1964. Federal searchers also discovered 14-year-old Herbert Oarsby, and the bodies of five other deceased African Americans who were never identified.

    • @NevermindNoMind
      8•1 year ago

      That reminds me of the serial killer Dean Corll, the candy man. He killed at least 17 young men and buried them beneath a boat storage shed. The police ignored the case for a long time because the young men were minorities and/or gay. When they finally started digging up the bodies and hit 17, setting a new Texas record for a serial killer, the police stopped digging up bodies, most likely because of the embarrassment and outrage of them essentially ignoring this serial killer for so long.