MONROE, Ga. — Federal and state agents swarmed the backyard of a modest white house in rural northeast Georgia this week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects involved in the unsolved 1946 lynchings of four people.
Agents from the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation finished searching the property Tuesday as they probed the deaths, which are some of the nation’s most notorious unsolved lynchings. Authorities said they received “recent information.”
Activists in the area have long said that some of the culprits in the lynchings of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dor sey are still alive.
A white mob of as many as 30 people dragged the two black couples from a car and tied them to trees July 25, 1946. The mob fired three volleys of bullets at the couples. Dorothy Malcom was seven months pregnant.
An outraged President Truman dispatched the FBI to Monroe, about 45 miles east of Atlanta, but the feds were met with a wall of silence. No one was ever arrested.
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