The dragging death of James Byrd Jr. is one of the most notorious hate crimes in recent history.
A man is seen carrying a photograph of James Byrd Jr. outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in 2011. By Eli Rosenberg and Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow Lindsey Bever Lindsey Bever General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 23 at 11:11 PM James Byrd Jr.’s body was found in pieces on the side of a country road in Texas in June 1998.
A gruesome scene From the site where Byrd’s remains were found in 1998, police followed a blood trail up a logging road, finding a grassy area where it appeared a fight had occurred. There they found “a cigarette lighter engraved with the words ‘KKK’ and ‘Possum,’ three cigarette butts, a can of ‘fix-a-flat,’ a CD, a pack of Marlboros, beer bottles, a button from Byrd’s shirt, Byrd’s baseball cap, and a wrench inscribed with the name ‘Berry,’” according to summary written by a U.S.
The cigarette butts were also DNA tested, and one came up with a hit for King, who had previously served a prison sentence for burglary. And there was other evidence that linked him to the crime. “During his first stint in prison , King was the ‘exalted cyclops’ of the Confederate Knights of America , a white-supremacist gang,” an appeals court wrote in 2018. “King’s drawings displayed scenes of racial lynching. Several witnesses testified that King would not go to a black person’s house and would leave a party if a black person showed up.
A long history of appeals The two other defendants in the case, Brewer and Berry were tried later for their crimes. Brewer was convicted of capital murder and was executed in 2011. Berry, the last to be tried, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted that November; prosecutors said that he joined the murder for the thrill but did not share Brewer and King’s white supremacist believes.
Tensions in Jasper, Tex. Some community members still talk about the negative impression left by the horrific crime and legal aftermath. Wilson, the lead investigator, said that he felt that the media had given Jasper the image of a backward country town. Newton County Sheriff Billy Rowles, who was the sheriff in Jasper County in 1998, told The Washington Post that the case had “turned him into an old man.”
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