1968.

Racial equality, politics and social justice converge on America and spills over into Indiana.

“Martin Luther King was shot and and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.” [screams] Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy stuns a crowd of Hoosier supporters with news of Dr. King's assassination You have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond or go beyond these rather difficult times.

A message of hope built on the promise of a new civil rights law.

But Kennedy himself would also fall victim to hate.

And just months later, another horrific crime would place an Indiana town into rights history.

“It was just the way she was killed, walking down the street.

And heartbreaking that somebody that had hatred for them would do that.

It was evil.

Carol Jenkins, a young black woman, murdered in a former sundown town.

Who did it and why?

There's secrets and lies.

Race is at the heart of it, and it's not just Martinsville.

A family awaits justice.

There are murderers who have walked free for decades While their families of victims cry out for justice.

What is the legacy left behind?

“We can't change history.” We need to learn from mistakes that were made.

Now, for the first time, witnesses bring light to a 50-year-old murder mystery.

Beyond the headlines of the Girl in the Yellow Scarf.

I'm Sandra Chapman.

As an investigative reporter, my career has spanned more than three decades, and I've covered thousands of stories.

But none has had more impact than the murder of Carol Jenkins and the quest for justice.

[Soft piano music] “Carol was a remarkable person” People loved her.

“And if anybody had ever met Carol,” they would have known she was a good person.

“She was fun.” “She was bashful, quiet” total opposite of me.

[laughs] [Soft piano music continues] Carol Marie Jenkins was just three years old when her mother, Elizabeth Jenkins married Paul Davis of Rushville.

Davis was the only father Carol had known.

She eventually became the big sister to five younger siblings.

The Davis children spent their formative years in Rushville until Paul and Elizabeth divorced.

Elizabeth later remarried and relocated to Indianapolis with her girls.

Carol, who graduated with the Rushville class of ‘65, split time between both households.

On the weekend of September 14th, 1968, Paulette, the next oldest daughter and a 17-year-old senior in high school, met her big sister, Carol, in their hometown of Rushville for a celebration.

I had spent the whole weekend with her and we had so much fun.

And that night she just hugged and kissed on Daddy and told him how much she loved him.

The following Monday, Carol was scheduled for sales training with Collier's Encyclopedia in Indianapolis.

The 21-year-old had signed up for the adventure with none other than her 19-year-old best Paula Bradley.

“We worked at Philco-Ford, which was in Connersville, and they went on strike.

And so we were trying to think of something else to do.” We wanted to have a job.

So there was an ad in the paper for Collier Encyclopedias, and they were having a training in Indianapolis.

“So I'm in study hall,” and I just get this weird sensation that came over me.

And I left school.

My mother was outside in the back and I asked her, I said, “Did Carol stop here before she went to sell encyclopedias” And my mom said, “No.

Why?” And I looked at my mom and I said, “I don't know.

I'm worried about her.” “We were supposed to go to Vincennes, ” and for whatever reason, we stopped in Martinsville.

Oh, my gosh!

‘cause we knew of the history of Martinsville.

And I can distinctly remember Carol saying to me, she said, “Well, I'm glad I wore pants today because I might have to run.” Martinsville, Indiana, renowned in the early 1900s for its artesian mineral water, is now but a faded shadow of its once towering image as a city offering healing streams.

The same city that welcomed white socialites to indulge in its health resorts was also a sundown town, with posted signs similar to these near the city limits and in store windows warning Negroes, “Don't let the sun set on you.” If you were caught in that town after dark and you happen to be black, you best find a way out quick.

[applause] While the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed the practices associated with sundown towns... it could not legislate the hatred steeped in the hearts of those who subscribed to it.

The Ku Klux Klan had been actively reviving chapters across the state in the 1960s.

During the summer of 1967 the hate group marched and held membership rallies in Martinsville and other surrounding communities.

So when we found out we had to go there, How do you prepare yourself for that?

You know, you just hope for the best and pray to God that the worst doesn't happen.

But unfortunately, it did.

Paula, Carol, and another trainee were each assigned certain areas of the city to canvass and sell encyclopedias.

They worked alone, going door to door as rain and nightfall settled in Trouble was waiting almost from the start.

Carol was being followed by two men in a car who shouted derogatory comments at her.

It led her to knock on the door of newlyweds Don and Norma Neal around 7:40 that evening.

Don and a neighbor stepped outside to investigate.

Their wives attended to Carol.

She was scared to death.

She was scared because she said they had been following her for quite some time.

And I just opened the door and let her in.

Donny and Jack stepped out on their front porch and seen a car sitting outside waiting for her to come back out of our apartment.

So Donny called the police and told them and described the car down to the hubcaps.

Don Neal had also jotted down th plate numbers of a second car, a light colored 1968 Chevy, Buick, or Oldsmobile with Morgan County license plates.

Martinsville is the government seat for Morgan County.

That car had also been sitting outside the Neal's home with its side parking lights on.

The driver pulled away when Don Neal went back inside.

Officer Clarence Richards responded to the Neal residence, but the Neal's found him more interested in Collier's Encyclopedia Company not having a permit to sell there than Carol's safety.

It was sad because they just...

They didn't even offer to take her back to the police station and wait That's what got me more than anything.

Jack's wife, Linda... We took her around Martinsville trying to find somebody that was with that group.

But we never did locate nobody.

I went to several homes, and when no one seemed to be interested in buying encyclopedias, I just went in a laundromat, and I just sat there waiting until it was time for us all to meet.

I didn't have any problem, and I think a lot of the reason is because of my skin color.

Probably they didn't know what I was.

We come back to the apartment and Carol said, “Oh, I'm going to go on.” And I said, “No, you don't need to.” “You just stay here until it's time for you to meet them...” “at 9:00 and we'll take you.” And she said, “No, I've bothered you people long enough.” “I'll just go on back.” And I tried and tried to get her to stay.

I walked her all the way down to Columbus... on the corner of Columbus and Home Avenue, and that is the route she took when she left our home.

When I got to the location where all supposed to meet, and I thought now this is weird because I really thought she would be one of the first ones to meet at that location.

And when she didn't show up, I thought, “This is really strange.” Back on Morgan Street, from the second floor of a converted apartment, Hayward Bellah heard a jarring noise and a door slam just after 9 P.M From his window, he saw a woman stumble to the ground Bellah ran downstairs and found Carol unresponsive on the sidewalk, and then ran across the street to the Dairy Bar to call for help.

Carol's supervisor from Collier's was inside the restaurant.

Officer Clarence Richards, who had responded to the Neal's home earlier was one of the first on the scene.

Carol was transported to the Morgan County Hospital and pronounced dead at 9:25.

A series of notifications began, starting with Carol's supervisor He came in his car and he told us to come with him because something had happened.

[knocking at the door] Somebody was knocking on the door.

That's when we knew that she had been killed.

I mean, I was just floored.

And I just, I cried and and course, Donny had to go down and identify her.

You know, and it heartbreaking that somebody that had hatred for them would do that.

Why would they take her life?

When she was not hurting nobody.

She told us she was from Rushville.

And she said, “when I heard that we were going to Martinsville, I didn't want to do it, because I was afraid.” And she said, “I wished I had stopped and got me some...” what was it, mace or something?

But she said, “we didn't have time.” [phone ringing] The phone rang and it was the morgue from Martinsville.

When they used her biological name, it didn't register with me.

They said that they had a Carol Jenkins there at the morgue, that she had been killed.

And I hung the phone up because I'm like “somebody's being stupid.” I thought it was a joke.

And then they called right back and I asked them to describe her And they did.

And then I had to tell my mother And she just basically went crazy.

“At that point, I knew I had to grow up really quick.” My mom was not functioning.

My dad was totally distraught.

“I can remember being at the police station and my family came to get me.” It was hard.

It's still hard.

It was one thing that we all knew Martinsville was known for was discrimination against black people.

But it was just the way she was killed.

Walking down the street.

But you know what really was hurtful was when I found out she was looking for me.

She was out looking for me and I was sitting in a laundromat.

I had a lot of guilt for that because, I mean, I had people tell me that, you know, “Well, if you hadn't been as fair as you were,” “you probably would have been killed, too.” Well, you know, how does a girl live with that guilt?

Because I kept thinking what I could have done to help her, you know... but...

It's all up to God.

I still dream about her.

And I dream like we're still together.

[Mysterious music] The morning after Carol Jenkins lifeless in downtown Martinsville, Indiana, shocking, bold headlines circulated around town.

I worked at the hospital and the gal that worked in the emergency room, she said, “You know, when they brought her in, we didn't even know what happened to her.” “She only had a small cut here, like somebody come from behind and got her.” She said, “Until we took her clothes off and found that she had been cut and it was in the and she bled internally.” Autopsy reports confirmed Carol had died from a single puncture wound to the heart.

But who killed her and why?

The two men who had been following Carol, 23-year-old Stanley Shireman and 21-year-old John Burns, turned themselves in to police headquarters.

They admitted to yelling crude comments at Carol, but denied having anything to do with her murder.

Police instead were still looking for that light colored sedan with Morgan County license plates.

That's when they discovered Neal had inadvertently written the numbers down wrong.

The plate came back to a farmer who was eventually cleared.

Carol's family and friends were left with no answers, heartbroken and reeling from the brutal crime.

“When Carol was, was murdered,” it was such big news and such devastating news that I can just vividly remember the crying the shedding of tears, the hurt.

Investigators suggested Carol was attacked by an old boyfriend who followed her to town or as the result of an attempted sexual assault, both based on popular police theories but lacked credible evidence.

Someone in Martinsville knew what had happened.

We got harassed.

[Sandra Chapman] Harassed?

Harassed by the people in Martinsville.

Donny's dad sat on the porch one night with a shotgun all night because he didn't know what they were going to do.

It was terrible.

It was terrible.

I was never brought up to be like that, and neither was Donny.

But it turns out one of Don Neil's relatives was questioned repeatedly about Carol's murder.

Stanley Shireman, the 23-year-old driver who followed and harassed Carol the night she was killed, reportedly passed a polygraph and was cleared by investigators But the Neils never let go of their suspicions.

Carol's family and black communities throughout central Indiana believed the motive was obvious; that Carol was killed simply because of the color of her skin.

The Indianapolis NAACP sent a telegram to the United States Department of Justice asking then Attorney General Ramsey Clark to investigate what it termed a racially motivated killing.

But the DOJ declined to step in.

The idea of a racist attack was all but dismissed.

They tried to pass it off as not being the reason why she was killed.

Lead Detective Wayne Hall of the Indiana State Police told reporters, “I think her race was the least likely motive” They didn't a bit more care.

Black girl got murdered down there.

They didn't care.

They didn't give a doggone.

Days, weeks, and years eventually passed with nothing, no arrests, and no promising new leads.

The Martinsville murder was delegated to the Indiana State Police cold case files.

The bitterness of injustice ... palpable.

I think things were hidden.

They were hidden and ... there were people who knew.

They chose not to speak out.

[Dennis Goins speaking] As an 8-year-old person, it was kind of hard to grab a hold of it because there was something inside that you knew was not right.

It was evil.

Now it's in your community.

It's in your backyard.

And it made it even more profound.

You grew up with a hatred toward that type of action, that evil.

For the next three decades, the community of Martinsville, IN, dug in its heels to rebuff any notion that a racially motivated killing took place there.

The city's unsavory reputation took on new roots, often intertwining between Carol's case and other racially insensitive incidents.

It resulted in a grip that squeezed the life out of Martinsville, its city's social status and economic growth.

The death of Carol Jenkins particularly grew to have a chilling effect on blacks throughout Central Indiana, including those who left home to pursue studies at Indiana University, just 30 miles south of Martinsville.

Indiana, University Professor Emeritus, Kevin Brown experienced the impact as a student in the early seventies.

It was a statement that basically said, look, you do not want to go to Martinsville, but almost you do not really want to go too far from the campus.

We dreaded ever having to stop in Martinsville.

Coming through Martinsville on your way back to Bloomington, you're always holding your breath.

It's fascinating to me that when I moved to Indianapolis a little over 20 years ago, that was one of the first names that I actually heard.

I was told that by young white people that I'm teaching.

And they said, “So you probably will want to go Indiana University, drive to Bloomington.” “You have to pass through Martinsville.” “Make sure you gas up before you go there.” “Don't stop.

Keep going.” A warning to black people, I guess, for generations to come.

College athletics are good in every respect.

In the 1970s, the legendary John Wooden, who played basketball for Martinsville in 1927 and led them to a state title, was emerging as a Hall of Fame basketball coach, taking UCLA to the pinnacle of national championships.

They're good students, too.

While Wooden promoted sportsmanship, integrity and respect for all players, black athletes in Indiana reported being subjected to racially charged taunts and threats during athletic events against Martinsville.

Dennis Goins, an Indiana Hall of Fame inductee, experienced it firsthand.

I remember one year riding on the bus, going into the football field.

There was an effigy hanging from the tree and it had my name on the back, and my number, and Rushville.

“My junior year, there was a bench clearing brawl in Rushville, and it was against Martinsville.” The Martinsville fans came on to the court and trying to get to me and literally ripped my numbers off the back of my jersey.

It just showed that the rivalry, the hatred, the evil had still existed in the seventies.

Law enforcement had all but given up on the case The burden to find out what happened to Carol weighed heavily on Paul Davis.

My father was so determined.

He was very diligent about trying to find out what had happened.

And then in September 2001, Paul Davis invited me to his home after I had inquired about Carol's case.

I had seen him on various news stations, including WISH-TV, where I worked at the time.

It's a wonderful honor to be here today.

The Indiana State Police and its new superintendent, Melvin Carraway, had just announced the formation of a cold case unit that would revisit unsolved cases, including Carol's.

Mr. Davis and I decided to also put Carol's murder under the lens of an investigative news report... [TV News Report Carol Jenkins stepfather said... ...that would ultimately bring the case, the delicate issue of race, and police blunders into the living rooms of thousands of Indiana residents.

And no one could have predicted the outcome.

I can't understand why anybody want to hurt her.

Had it been a white girl, I feel like they would have had it solved.

Just seemed like to me that they could have been more done.

And I just felt like they was...

I just always felt like, they was covering it up.

[Sgt.

Don Kuster] It was a ... a group of people around the place and it wasn't secured or anything like that.

I had some lady came up to me and hand me a pair of glasses and she said “I think this was this girl's glasses.” Which they were.

And somebody else had her notebook that was ... that she dropped.

And it was just chaos.

Sure would like to solve it, but didn't.

Our investigation found state police had identified three potential suspects.

The first one, 19-year-old Hayward Bellah, the young man who heard something from his upstairs apartment and saw Carol stagger and fall to the ground.

Bellah is actually the person who jumped into action to get help for Carol.

He was eventually ruled out.

The second suspect was Keith Ford, a former Indiana State Trooper who owned the Flowing Well Gas Station, a block from the murder scene.

Ford, who had been fired from the Indiana State Police for inappropriate behavior towards a female employee, told investigators he heard a scream, followed by a car squealing out of the alley around the time Carol was killed The third and most promising suspect was James “Harley” Smith He had reportedly bragged about killing Carol to at least a half dozen people.

But in the early seventies, investigators crossed Smith's name off the list, too.

Investigators said he was killed after a bar fight led to a deadly police shootout.

But not one investigator on Carol's case bothered to confirm whether the story was even true.

He was supposedly a police officer at that time in some place in Missouri.

And he ...

It was a cop gone bad while they were looking for him.

And the word was that a shootout occurred.

I think it might have been in Illinois at the time and that he was killed.

I don't know where it came from.

And I had told people that I had information that he was dead, but apparently that was not right.

And when I ran that guy's name and found out he was still alive, I thought, “You've got to be kidding me.” Bill McAllister is a former state police officer turned private eye who works with some of Indiana's top criminal defense attorneys.

Due to his work, he asked that his face not be shown.

Paul Davis and his family hired McAllister in early 2001 in hopes of solving Carol's case.

I could tell pretty quickly that a lot of people had a lot of information, and nobody was talking to anybody.

ISP investigators Maurice “Bud” Allcron and Allen McElroy turned their sights solely onto James “Harley” Smith.

I turned my stuff over to Allcron and McElroy, it was pretty obvious to me they didn't want any help.

So “there it is, boys.

It's all yours.” But investigators soon learned the WISH-TV I-Team was also on the trail of Smith.

Our information traced him from Illinois to Missouri and a stint in prison in between.

to eventually a goat farm in Florida.

That's where we obtained undercover video of James “Harley” Smith.

Did you know that you were supposed to be dead?

[TV News report] If you have information regarding this case, contact the Morgan County Prosecutor.

Then a phone call that changed everything.

[Voice Mail alert] Beep... That message gave me chills and still does.

So many questions.

Was it a hoax?

And who was this woman?

When we finally connected, she was having second thoughts and would not divulge her last name, her father's name, or where either of them were living.

This was huge.

But I had to confirm it.

I started with Paul Davis and asked if Carol was wearing a yellow scarf.

I didn't know she had one because it was never in the papers or anything about her having a yellow scarf.

The only report mentioning a scarf came a year after Carol's death.

Detective Hall told The Indianapolis News a resident had given Carol a head scarf because it was raining, but there was no mention of a specific color.

The return call from Paul Davis told me all I needed to know.

He said, “There appears to be something to the scarf.” “Investigators from the State Police were very interested and didn't know she had a scarf,” he told me.

Allcron and McElroy instructed Paul Davis to end our communication.

But Mr. Davis kept talking, and so did the caller, who I later was able to identify.

Her name - Shirley McQueen.

I can remember even before she came... before she actually said she thought her father killed my sister.

My mother would get anonymous phone calls.

She never could get the story out.

She would always hang up.

Even though we knew Shirley McQueen's name and where she lived, we didn't know much else about her.

She refused my phone calls and visits and information wasn't as readily available back then.

Finally, in March of 2002, Shirley was talking again and shared a major development.

State Police Investigators had found her.

She thought I had told them about the voice message she left for me about her father being the killer.

McQueen talks about it in a recorded interview I knew that they needed somebody to come forward that had the information.

All they had to do was find her, and they did.

State Police had also received an anonymous letter implicating Shirley's father by name.

[fax machine printing] On the morning of May 8th, a fax came into the newsroom.

There was a break in the decades old murder mystery.

This is News Eight, your 24-hour News Station.

“34 years of myster may have ended in Martinsville.

This Indianapolis man is under a for a notorious murder, the 1968 stabbing death of young encyclopedia saleswoman.” Kenneth Richmond had gone undetected for nearly three decades.

It wasn't until an I-Team investigation last November that a local woman got up the courage to come forward with some disturbing details.

She told the I-Team and the State Police her father was the killer.

It's something I've been praying for and waiting for 34 years, almost.

The filing of criminal charges against Kenneth Richmond is just the beginning.

70-year-old Kenneth Richmond was arrested after his daughter, Shirley McQueen came forward last November following an exclusive I-Team investigation.

That does appear to strongly suggest a race ... racial motive Prosecutor Sonnega confirmed for the first time that Carol Jenkins was the victim of a hate crime, based solely on her race, and the WISH-TV reports prompted the big break in the case.

As a result of some news coverage back in November, this other person came forward, and that's what really was our lead.

It turns out Shirley had told he sister-in-law, Connie McQueen, 15 years earlier that she had witnessed her father kill a black lady.

After seeing our reports, that same sister-in-law called Shirley and wrote the anonymous letter to investigator telling them Shirley's Story.

In court records, Shirley told investigators her father and another man saw the pretty well-dressed lady walking down the sidewalk, wearing a yellow-orange colored and carrying a box-like case.

She said her father whistled at the woman and then as he got closer, realized she was a black lady.

He started yelling racial epithets at her before turning the car around to follow her.

And then the car stopped abruptly.

McQueen said her father grabbed a screwdriver from the floorboard or seat.

When the lady saw them get out.

She started running.

They chased her.

The passenger grabbed her from behind and her father, Kenneth Richmond, stabbed Jenkins once in the chest.

McQueen told police her father laughed and said, “she got what she deserved.” Seven dollars to buy a seven-year-old's silence.

Money she says her father later demanded back.

[emotional music] [Paula Davis] It's a deep, deep, deep hurt, that never goes away ... never goes away.

I don't think it ever will.

Even though it's been 50 years?

Oh, yeah.

You know, especially when you talk about the facts, it brings it back just like it happened yesterday.

I still see her as a young, vibrant, beautiful, intelligent, kind-hearted, loving person.

And she's gone.

For no good reason.

[somber music] For the first time in three decades, an alleged killer was facing charges for the 1968 death of Carol Jenkins in Martinsville, Indiana.

[Paulette Davis] I saw broken down old man.

But, you know, he took something very, very precious.

70-year-old Kenneth Richmond was arrested from an Indianapolis nursing home based on the testimony of a star witness, his own daughter, Shirley McQueen.

After the arrest calls poured in from The New York Times, and a slew of national newspapers, CBS News, Good Morning America, The Associated Press, Salon magazine and a producer from the former 60 Minutes II program spent the day in my office.

I had been the only journalist with access to Shirley McQueen.

And they all wanted to speak with her, too.

But there was a big problem.

Shirley was traumatized by the legal process and by the secret she had carried for 33 years.

When the charges were announced, she and her son hid out in a movie theater the entire day as the real life drama unfolded.

She was no longer talking, at least for a while.

Shirley told prosecutors she and her family had suffered years of domestic violence and abuse at the hands of her father.

in 1998, three years before Richmond's arrest.

Shirley's therapist wrote, “Her father killed a black lady when she was seven.” “She has flashbacks.” The allegations are the misguided ramblings of a troubled daughter who hated her father for.

What he did to her.

She's competent and she's being honest and telling the truth.

It takes a lot of courage to for a young girl to come and turn her father in.

Shirley had even worked with investigators to try to get a confession from her father.

In January 2002, she visited Richmond for only the second time in nearly 20 years.

Wired up and wearing a hidden recording device.

According to State Police transcripts.

Richmond told his daughter... Those are things you don't forget.

You can either learn to live with it or it will ruin your life.

[Sandra Chapman] Mr. Richmond, how are you feeling?

Not good.

[Sandra Chapman] Not good?

No.

No ma'am.

Within months of his arrest, Richmond's attorney reported the 70-year-old suspect was dying from bladder cancer.

The court ruled him incompetent to stand trial.

I was glad that they supposedly found the person that did it, but it was a little too late.

Three months after he was arrest for the killing of Carol Jenkins, Richmond was dead.

He died at 3:00 this morning, and the cause of death is disseminated Bladder cancer.

I regret that he died and didn't reveal the second party's name.

He doesn't get a trial.

We don't get a trial.

We wanted that.

We're just going to have to accept that this is the best that we can do.

[Bill McCallister, P.I.]

So who was the second person?

And my feeling is they should have got that, gotten that out of him at the time that they arrested him.

A lot of times, law enforcement people get in too big a hurry.

You know, they've... they arrest a guy for murder, so their job's done.

Well, it isn't done.

What else does that guy know?

I mean, he didn't just wake up one morning and decide he's going to go kill Carol Jenkins.

Records reveal Kenneth Richmond had a sordid past where psychotic behavior and excessive drinking led to violence and death.

Richmond's stint in the Army in 1951 was short-lived, just six months, and he never completed basic training.

On his way to Camp Breckinridge in Kentucky, he became violent and went into a state of rage and had to be restrained.

Army doctors diagnosed Richmond with schizophrenia.

In the mid-seventies, Richmond attempted to castrate himself.

Shirley's mother told police he would take a knife to bed and asked her to castrate him.

He told her that this would “tame him.” In 1982, he carried out his earlier attempt.

Then in 1985, Richmond shot and killed his friend, Sam Leverett, in Owen County, Indiana after an argument over a card game.

It was at that time investigators took pubic hair, and blood samples from Richmond as part of a DNA panel.

But it wasn't for Sam Leverett's case.

Alan McElroy, the same investigator who arrest Richmond in 2002, was on Richmond's Owen County case when Richmond first emerged as a possible suspect in Carol's death more than 15 years earlier, but for unknown reasons, investigators failed to connect the dots.

Shirley recalls the moment Detective McElroy realized the major misstep.

And it's disappointing.

You need to follow through and do the right thing and get to the bottom of the issue.

A prosecutorial blunder in that Owen county case allowed Richmond to beat the murder charges in his friend's death.

Instead, he spent just two years in prison on a gun violation.

After his release, he moved to Florida and in 1987 was charged with attempted murder for nearly beating a man to death with a hammer.

He was cleared in that case by reason of insanity and ordered to a treatment facility for four years, where he admitted to taking part in criminal activity with the Klan.

Oh, wow.

They should have never let him out.

Mr. Richmond was sick, sick person.

I just saw pure evil.

Shortly before Mr. Richmond's death he acknowledged his involvement in the death of Carol Jenkins.

He consistently maintained that he had nothing to do with Carol Jenkins' death.

The detectives told us that he confessed.

He didn't speak, but he shook his head, “Yes.” Said this guard, ask him, did he do it?

and he shook his head, “Yes.” Yeah.

I believe it.

I believe it.

But what about the accomplice?

Shirley could only say the man was taller than Richmond and had black hair.

FBI records show there was a second person identified, but the report did not include a name.

The accomplice purportedly served in the United States Marine Corps in the sixties and was discharged for unknown reasons.

Shirley's sister-in-law told police in her letter, the man with Richmond the night of Carol's murder was Richmond's best friend, Russell Harrison of Martinsville And it's possible Harrison and the two men who had followed the night of the murder, Stanley Shireman and John Burns, all knew each other.

They were all members of the American Legion in Martinsville.

Still, Shirley insists she would have known Russell Harrison, whose own family confirms he was a person of interest.

And I felt moved by the story.

This relative agreed to speak, but asked that her name be withheld.

It just hurts to know that that could be a part of someone in your family and I ...

I just want to help.

Stories from family is how I know him.

What had happened that made your mother want to sit down and tell you about this family member?

She wanted to get ahead of the story before we saw it on the news.

[Relative speaking] Sat us down and let us know about Carol.

What had happened and that someone had come forward with Kenneth's name.

And that there was a second suspect and that Russ was ... was thought to be possibly the second sus...suspect.

I was crushed.

And as time goes on, it doesn't get easier.

If anything, it gets harder.

It's horrible.

And that should have never happened.

I will not be like that.

And I hope he's just rolling in his grave by my actions.

Treat everybody with kindness.

And I don't want to be a part of ... racism.

I just can't believe it sometimes.

I can't believe that I came from that.

I thought I'd come out who the second person was.

Why did you think that?

Justice.

When you're young, you just assume everything is going to be okay and everything works out and is fair.

And you learn quickly that it's not like that.

And people are evil and people will take secrets to their grave How would you feel if someone killed your child, knew something, and wouldn't come forward?

It's not right.

It's not Christian-like.

It's not moral.

It's not just.

Russell Harrison died in October 2005.

He was never charged in the death of Carol Jenkins.

Nearly 50 years after Carol Marie Jenkins was killed on the main thoroughfare in Martinsville, Indiana... [People fighting in the street] Violent clashes erupted in cities across the country that resembled race relations in the 1960s.

It was now time, time for the two cities where Carol lived and died to wrestle with history.

[John Mellencamp sings “Small Town”] ♪ I was born in a small town ♪ and I live in small town.

It was wonderful.

I am so thankful that I grew up in a small town like that.

Rushville, I think they were more welcoming to people of color.

We knew our boundaries, what we in Rushville, but we felt very safe.

♪ Educated in a small town.

♪ Taught the fear of Jesus in small town.♪♪ [Rushville Mayor Mike Pavey] I'm a mayor of a small town.

It's a small rural community.

And that tends to make people think that it's going to be pretty backwards.

And I get that and understand it.

But I think some of the times we're blessed, with not not being as backwards as people might think.

There have been some who have said Rushville was much less race sensitive because in the early years the all-black school burned.

And so they were incorporated into the high school system years and years before any of the communities around us.

I wish I could say there isn't ever any racism that exists out there because we never get it 100%.

[”Unite the Right” Marchers] You will not replace us.

[”Chuck D” - “Cuttin' Heads”] ♪ Delta Blues got ‘em dazed and confused.

♪ ♪ Came a long way crazy seems the abuse is racism's baby.

And it's wild.

♪♪ [Protesters chant] Black lives matter.

Black lives matter.

[ Mayor Pavey] We experienced the racial sensitivity situation that existed in every major city.

We were already way ahead of the curve.

We were already doing things.

Mayor Pavey set into motion a plan, a reckoning with race relations, intensely focused on the case of one of their own, Carol Jenkins.

We connected with Martinsville and said, “We're going to do this and whether you do anything or not, we're doing this.” [Bells chime] There were two families that were tragically affected that day.

One is Carol's family, which a life that was taken far too young.

The second family was the city of Martinsville family.

We have been tagged with a reputation for, for many years since then ... ah ... ... that... is not completely true.

[Tense music] They've not been misjudged.

You judge people by their actions.

There's good white, and there's good blacks.

There's, there's good people and there's bad people.

Nothing changes until it changes.

It's almost like we're supposed to just forget about it.

Like, okay, check.

We've done enough.

Let's move on.

And that mentality bothers me.

[Mayor Costin] We've had, you know, our, our troubles like any small community.

Back in the mid-to-late nineties there was an incident at a basketball game.

The IHSAA reprimanded Martinsville.

They...we could not have any home athletic events for a year.

As a community that, that hurt us.

We can't change history.

We need learn to, you know, accept it, and, and learn from mistakes that were made.

But continued to try to change our image.

So as the younger generation comes in, then I think you're going to see this change.

[footsteps] I'm Jim Loewen.

I wrote the book “Sundown Towns.

I submit to you that every sundown town needs to take three steps.

First of all, admit it.

Second of all, apologize.

We did this and it was wrong, and we're sorry.

And third, and we don't do it anymore.

[solemn music] [Mayor Costin] They had a ceremony here.

There was a memorial that was placed out in front of City Hall in memory of Carol.

That's minor compared to what They've gone through.

[Church bells ring] I didn't want to go there.

I didn't want to go past Morgan Street where she was killed.

And it just made me sick.

[Then Martinsville Mayor, Shannon Kohl] On behalf of our entire community, I want to welcome everyone to Martinsville's remembrance event for Carol Jenkins Davis.

On behalf of the Martinsville community, we are profoundly sorry for what happened to Carol and for the pain, and sadness, and grief that followed her family and friends.

[Church bells toll] Father, we deeply regret that this travesty took place in our town nearly 50 years ago.

We confess and repent for all racial intolerance that has occurred here.

From this day forward, we declare Martinsville to be no longer a city known for racism, but instead known as a city of refuge.

Welcome to all.

[Attendees applaud] [Paulette Davis] We just can't hold the tears back.

You try.

I wanted to see for myself if people seemed to have changed.

What surprised me was that they made the dedication to Carol.

And that in itself told me that people who are trying in that city.

And so it was really encouraging to hear him speak about life in Martinsville now, the way he sees it.

Of course, I, I ...

I still have my doubts.

Okay.

But that was encouraging.

And, you know, the glory of it all is the fact that Paul was alive to see it.

It was just a very emotional time.

[Pastor Chris Page praying] Carol, we honor you.

We remember you, and we celebrate you.

And everyone says, [crowd in unison] Amen.

[Congressman John Lewis Mr. Speaker, the time has come.

There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of these crimes that were never brought to justice.

There are murderers who have walked free for decades while the families of victims cry out for justice.

In 2016, President Barack Obama reauthorized the 2007 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act to include the review of cold cases across the country Carol Jenkins' case was one of them.

Like Emmett, Carol is among the youngest victims and one of the few women killed during the civil rights era as the result of a racially motivated crime.

There's secrets and lies in this world.

There's still the possibility that this is going to come back and you're going to eventually get caught.

That you'll be prosecuted today, whereas in my day, you know, I mean if you were a victim of racial violence, I think the notion was “too bad for you.” Professor Emeritus Brown taught Race, American Society and the Law for decades at the Indiana University, Maurer School of Law.

The Yale Law graduate, has long advocated for efforts to address systemic racism.

I was an original participant in the first Critical Race Theory workshop in 1989, and from that experience developed the first race and law class in any law school in the state of Indiana.

[Patriotic Music] We believed in America.

We believe in capitalism.

Our country does have this dark past and it's not like the dark past is in the past.

[”Unite the Right” Marchers chanting] The problem is the dark past is still shaping the present.

[”Unite the Right” participant] “Fire the first shot of the race war, baby!” I think we're seeing a lot of rising of hate groups.

Dr. Terry Jett is a Professor of Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies at Butler University.

No longer can people say, “Well, it was that generation.” When we're talking about very young people who have not grown up during Jim Crow or during other times.

These are young people that are being influenced in different ways.

That are being indoctrinated with ridiculous theories and conspiracies that have no value or truth.

[Rioter yells] White Power!

They are being encouraged, even supported, to respond in this violent way.

[Rioters yelling] [Soft piano music] Carol's legacy is about educating the next generation and creating a more equitable and unified nation.

Collectively, the community has to think about what can they do to be more welcoming to people?

How can they really put that message out there that it is okay to stop here?

In fact, it's okay to live here and go to school here.

We're trying to show people that you know, you can stop into Martinsville, you can come through town.

There's a lot of positive things that are going on.

We're not a racist community.

We are going to treat everyone equal.

The one thing that I say hits me personally, closest is Carol Jenkins Davis Community Park, because I think it touches so many lives and it touches so many things.

The park sits in the neighborhood that that would have been the park that most of the African-American kids would have played in.

And it was the one we knew we wanted to refresh and make something different, something educational.

It speaks to a lot of different things.

There's race, there's diversity in general.

There's inclusion.

[Soft piano music continues] I think it's great.

When they built the labyrinth down at the park and I did walk it, I just I talked to my sister and I'm like, “They did all this for you, in your memory.” They just put together this beautiful monument.

She had brought so much emphasis to race and to what can happen if people find the purpose.

And I think Rushville, they found a purpose.

I would say that it's changed me in so many ways.

It allowed me to be much more understanding of what I want to be as a leader, about what I want my son to grow up to be like.

[India.Arie “Peaceful World”] ♪ Racism lives in the U.S.A. ♪ Get hip to what Martin Luther had to say ♪ If you don't teach them about the past, how can you improve on the future?

It's not about making white children feel guilty or anything like that.

It's about exposing all children to various perspectives, and cultures, and possibilities also.

That should not be something that any family should fear.

[John Mellencamp sings “Peaceful World”] ♪ It's what you do and not what you say.

♪ ♪ If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way.

♪♪ I've always said everything rises and falls on leadership, but I think the most important thing is that you have to have hope.

And hope is not going to come through feelings, emotions, or circumstances.

Hope is going to come through joy.

Forgive, and try to teach, and not be a stumbling block.

I see us doing the work that we need to do to come together to live more harmoniously.

Race is at the heart of it, and it's not just Martinsville.

[Paulette Davis] I never thought in a million years this would be her legacy.

My sister has come to me one time and it was... it was beautiful.

And the sky was just totally blue, a very beautiful blue.

And there was one cloud in the sky.

The cloud opened up.

The cloud opened up and it was my sister's face in the cloud.

And she told me not to worry, that she was okay.

[India.Arie and John Mellencamp sing “Peaceful World”] ♪ So be careful with your heart ♪ and what you love.

♪ Make sure that it was sent from above.

♪ ♪ It's what you do and not what you say.

♪ ♪ If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way.

♪ ♪ Come on, baby, ♪ Take a ride on me.

I'm up from Indiana down to Tennessee.

♪ ♪ Everything is cool as can be in a peaceful world.

♪ ♪ So, lay back the top and ride on me ♪ ♪ I'm up from Indiana down to Tennessee.

♪ ♪ Everything is cool as can be in a peaceful world.

♪♪