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Podcast: True Crime Garage
Episode: James Byrd Jr. /// Part 1 /// 163
Description: James Byrd Jr. /// Part 1 /// 163
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The Crime was unspeakable: June 7, 1998; 49 year old James Byrd jr. was picked up by three white men in Jasper, Texas. They took him to the woods where they beat James and chained him by his ankles to the rear bumper of their pick up truck. He was dragged three miles along country roads. His head was severed from his torso by a roadside culvert. Tonight we discuss a horrible senseless murder that shook the nation and forever scarred an East Texas town...