Mercy for George

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Betty and Mary's family was escorted by their fear, as the people started the search, and Stinney's father joined a groundwork team that night to locate the two girls. However, the night was deeply turning to stop the hunt and the girls had not still been found, not until the subsequent morning came, March 25, 1944. The morn was troubled and turmoiled when Betty and Mary's bodies were located. It was horrible to watch the innocent girls' condition seeing that they cruelly suffered from an unknown predator, in where a pursuit team consisting of Francis Batson, George Burke, and Sam Perry, all civilians, has located the bodies.

As Batson, one on the team recalled, the women were lying on their backs in a very ditch with a bicycle; Bicycle handlebars were found within the bushes that were removed from the ditch. As he moved the bodies in a trial to work out if the women were still alive but both were concluded dead.

One deputy named Sheriff Newman responded to the scene when the incident was reported, and as he arrived, he saw that the bodies were moved, one on each side of the ditch. He also saw that there was a bicycle next to Betty June Binnicker, and a wheel that had come off the frame and was also discovered within the trench.

A rumor circulated in the city that the girls stopped at a house of a crucial white family on the precise day they were killed, but this has never been confirmed. And also the police certainly don't seem like they're searching for a white killer.

When Clarendon County enforcement officers learned from a witness that Binnicker and Thames had been seen talking to Stinney after the incident, they quickly headed to his home, and clearly doubt was all over their minds. The serene roof inside the Stinney's home was filled with surprise and sting when the child, George Stinney Jr. was quickly and unhesitatingly handcuffed as they took him for an interrogation that lasted for hours in a very small room without his parents, lawyers, or any witnesses. Little Stinney became the central eye of the case and was arrested on quarter day, just shortly after the body was discovered. The police also arrested Johnny Green, Stinney's half-brother, but he was later released.

Law enforcement officers further searched Stinney's three-room home but found no evidence after Stinney was taken. None of the family were questioned that day, or at any time, by enforcement, although at least two of them, George's brother Charles and his sister Amie Lou, could have provided highly relevant exculpatory evidence.

Through their pointing questions they put under the child, police at the end claimed that Stinney confessed to killing Binnicker and Thames after his plan to touch with one among the girls, failed, which was a cap, whereas, an officer named H.S. Newman wrote in a very handwritten statement: "I captured a young boy named George Stinney. He then confessed and told me where to seek out a bit of iron about 15 inches long. He said he placed it during a ditch about 6 feet from the bike. Iron shards were found within the water even as he said."

Newman further refused to reveal where Stinney was being held, as rumors of a secession spread throughout the town. Even his parents had no idea where he was, and his trial quickly approached. At the time, 14 was considered the age of responsibility, and Stinney was suspected of being to blame for the murder.