Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Scandal

[Police Moderator]

Solving Kathy Mabry's Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Decades-Long Mississippi Scandal
Posted: 01/17/2013

BELZONI, Miss. -- J.D. "Bubba" Roseman, the first black sheriff of Humphreys County, is a convivial man. In his office and in casual conversations on the street in this town of 2,200, he engages people quickly and easily, inquiring about a son on the football team, a niece in college or a grandmother in the hospital. He talks loud and fast, always smiling, and works a deep, infectious laugh into just about every conversation.

But when Roseman, 57, talks about Kathy Mabry, the mirth drains from his face. His brow straightens. He speaks softly. He pauses from time to time to swallow the catch that latches onto his words, and his eyes sometimes well up. It's an unexpected thing from a stout man wearing a gun.

Mabry was murdered here in 1997 at the age of 39. This part of America once produced murder ballads about brutal crimes like this one -- blues greats like Pinetop Perkins, Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson have all called Humphreys County home.

Kathy Mabry's killer raped her, then slashed her face, head and throat with a rusty razor blade. She was left to bleed to death on the floor of a vacant house. "I think about that case every day," Roseman says. "I told Kathy's momma I wouldn't get an honest night's rest until we got the man who did this."

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Kudos to the Innocence Project and Radley Balko for exposing these frauds.

[TNBear]

You do realize that The Huffington Post is nothing but a bunch of liberal BS don't you?

[Police Moderator]

You do realize that The Huffington Post is nothing but a bunch of liberal BS don't you?

Yes.

But, even a blind squirrel, can find a nut, every once in a while.

In this case, Mr. Balko, and the Mississippi Innocence Project are dead on.

[Tsavodiner]

Jan 19, 2013 19:38:56 GMT -5 TNBear said:

You do realize that The Huffington Post is nothing but a bunch of liberal BS don't you?

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