After almost 35 years, investigators have identified the victim of a 1988 homicide and arrested two suspects in connection with the crime. The victim, Kenyatta “KeKe” Odom, was found encased in concrete near Millwood in Ware County and was known only as Baby Jane Doe. The suspects, 56-year-old Evelyn Odom and 61-year-old Ulyster Sanders, were taken into custody without incident and are believed to have been the victim's mother and live-in boyfriend at the time of her death. The GBI is continuing to investigate the case.
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified a body found in a suitcase in a dumpster 35 years ago as 26-year-old South Korean woman Chong Un Kim. DNA analysis, funded by donors, was used to make the identification. The GBI is now asking for the public's help in finding out more information about Kim and her death, and is committed to finding justice for her and her family.
Leonard Cure, a Black man wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 2003 and exonerated in 2020, was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in Georgia. He had been released from prison after over a decade and was working in security, hoping to go to college and work in broadcast radio production. Seth Miller of the Innocence Project of Florida has expressed his devastation at the news and called for an investigation into the shooting.
The Grier family has filed a $100 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the Hancock County Sheriff's Office after Brianna Grier, a 28-year-old Georgia mother, died last summer after falling out of a sheriff's patrol car. The lawsuit alleges that deputies "unlawfully and willfully seized and restrained" Grier and failed to provide medical assistance, causing injury to her head and brain. The Grier family is seeking justice and accountability in the case and is seeking $100 million in damages for the wrongful death of Brianna Grier.
A male shooter killed two of his relatives and a fast food worker in Moultrie, Georgia before taking his own life. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation, and the identities of the victims and shooter have not yet been released. The tragedy has left the small town of Moultrie in shock, with the community mourning the loss of life and offering support to those affected.
The family of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, an environmental activist known as "Tortuguita", released the results of an autopsy which revealed that he had been shot 14 times. The family's attorneys are now filing an open-records lawsuit to force Atlanta police to release more evidence about the killing, which occurred during a peaceful protest. The GBI has been investigating the shooting for nearly two months, and the family is hoping that the lawsuit will help them get the answers they are looking for and bring justice for Tortuguita and other activists.
After 45 years of searching, the remains of Auburn University student Kyle Clinkscales, who disappeared in 1976, have been identified. The remains were found inside his 1974 Ford Pinto in a creek in Cusseta, Alabama, and were positively identified by the Troup County Coroner's Office after DNA analysis. The Troup County Sheriff's Office has asked anyone with information about the case to contact them, providing closure to Clinkscales' family and friends.
On Wednesday morning, a 26-year-old activist, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, was fatally shot by law enforcement in Atlanta, Georgia during a clearing operation near a planned law enforcement training facility. Protests have erupted in the city, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is continuing to investigate the shooting. The Georgia State Patrol Trooper who was shot is expected to make a full recovery.