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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE . ee — : vor eT rd foe . od eat Ring Taken From the Body and Identified as Till’s Photograph from “Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case” by Chris Crowe ¢ Chester A. Miller (deceased): Testified that Miller was an undertaker in Greenwood, Mississippi. Miller and his helper, Simon Garrett, were summoned to the Tallahatchie River, near Philipp, Mississippi, on August 31, 1955, to pick upa body. Upon arriving at the scene, they found the body to be lying, face down, in a boat. The boat was pulled up on the bank of the river. They turned the body over and ~ discovered a silver ring on one of the body’s fingers. Miller identified a ring which was inscribed "May 25, 1943" and with the initials "L.T.", as the ring that was taken off of the body by his helper [Simon Garrett}. Miller later gave the ring io Mose Wright. Miller observed a metal wheel and a strand of barbed wire to bei in the boat with the body and the barbed wire was wrapped around the neck of the body. Mose Wright identified the body to Miller as being the body of Emmett Till. After loading the body into a casket shipping container, Miller transported the body to his funeral . fot ee eet F home in Greenwood, Mississippi. At the funeral home, Mr. Strickland, a Greenwood , ; 74 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE ; This document contains neither recommendations nor conctusions of the FBI. [tis the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.