1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Want DOJ — Not City — to Search for Graves of Victims of White Mob

Fires burning in Tulsa’s Black community of Greenwood on June 1, 1921, during the Tulsa Race Massacre.Photo: Courtesy of University of Tulsa - McFarlin Library Special Collections “There are innumerable reasons why the Department of Justice should intervene in this case,” said the letter dated Friday from the groupJustice for Greenwood. “First, the City perpetrated the massacre and then led the cover up of the massacre for 75 years. Over the last 20 years and currently, the City’s official position is they are not responsible for the horrendous loss of life, land, or livelihood that they caused.

1970s Glam Rock Star Released Early from Prison After Serving Half His Sentence

Photo: Paul Hackett/Landov Former glam pop star Gary Glitter was released early from prison on Friday after serving half of a 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s, theAssociated Press reported. The singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was released from a prison in Dorset, England, and will serve the remainder of his sentence on probation. Gadd, 79, was convicted for one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 12,The New York Timesreported.

1972 Olympian Barbara Cochran on Son Ryan's Success in Beijing Games: 'Knew He Could Do It'

Like mother, like son! Former Olympic medalist Barbara Ann Cochran proudly cheered for her son Ryan Cochran-Siegle on Tuesday as heearned a silver medalin the men’s super-G race at the Beijing Olympics. Last January, Cochran-Siegle was severely injured when hecrashed during a World Cup racein Austria. He underwent surgery to repair a broken bone in his neck nearly a year to the day of his silver medal-winning performance on Tuesday.

1975 Murder of 16-Year-Old Girl Solved by New DNA Link to Man in West Virginia

Sharron Prior.Photo:Longueuil Police/Facebook Longueuil Police/Facebook The murder of 16-year-old Sharron Prior has been solved nearly 50 years after her death. After lying open for more than four decades, investigators finally had a breakthrough when they linked DNA found at the 1975 crime scene to a family living in West Virginia. When they discovered a member of the American family was living in Montreal at the time of the murder, but had since died, they obtained a warrant to exhume his body.

1980s Serial Killer Who Murdered Women in Oregon Identified as Convicted Criminal John Charles Bolsinger

Geraldine Spencer Toohey; Gladys May Hensley; Janice Marie Dickinson.Photo: Eugene Police Department (3) The serial slayings began in Eugene, Ore., on June 5, 1986, when police and paramedics responded to an apartment and discovered the body of 62-year-old Gladys May Hensley. An apartment employee had called the police after Hensley had not been seen for a few days. Police determined that she had most likely been killed in the early morning hours of June 4.