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   (CNN)The Justice Department has officially closed its   
   investigation into the infamous killing of Emmett Till without   
   federal charges for a second time, leaving only more questions   
   after a potentially significant claim from one of the last   
   living witnesses led investigators on a fresh hunt for evidence.   
      
   In 2017, professor Timothy Tyson unearthed what appeared to be a   
   key piece of evidence in one of the most haunting and grisly   
   murders documented in the Jim Crow Era: a recantation from the   
   woman at the center of the case who had accused Till of making   
   sexual advances at her over 60 years ago.   
      
   Yet after an exhaustive investigation, the Justice Department's   
   Civil Rights Division has now concluded it cannot prove the   
   woman lied to federal investigators about her story.   
      
   After CNN reported the development in the case earlier Monday,   
   the department subsequently made public a memo explaining the   
   evidence investigators reviewed and its reasons for closing the   
   matter without federal charges.   
      
   Fourteen-year-old Till, a Black teen from Chicago, was visiting   
   family in Mississippi in 1955 -- the scene of his fateful   
   encounter with then-20-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham. Accounts   
   from that day differ, but witnesses alleged that Till whistled   
   at Donham as she left the market she ran with her husband.   
   Donham later testified in 1955 that Till grabbed her hand, her   
   waist, and propositioned her, saying that he had been with   
   "white women before." Yet when that trial testimony was raised   
   with her years later in a 2008 interview, Tyson claimed Donham   
   told him: "That part's not true."   
      
   The explosive reported confession set off a firestorm of calls   
   for authorities to re-open the cold case. The Justice Department   
   had already re-examined the case once and concluded in 2007 that   
   no one could be prosecuted at the federal level based on the   
   evidence available and the statute of limitations had long since   
   run out.   
      
   Armed with Tyson's new claims, federal investigators once again   
   spoke to Donham.   
      
   The goal, sources familiar with the investigation say, was to   
   determine if Donham actually recanted her previous testimony in   
   her interview with Tyson, and if so, what other evidence she   
   might be willing to provide that could shed light on her role in   
   the killing or in identifying others who might be culpable.   
      
   "A recantation would directly contradict both her testimony at   
   the state proceedings in 1955 and the statements she provided to   
   the FBI during the previous investigation," the Justice   
   Department explained in the memo Monday.   
      
   Yet when questioned directly, Donham adamantly denied to   
   investigators that she had recanted her testimony.   
      
   And other investigators ran into additional evidentiary problems.   
      
   The most damning statements Tyson attributed to Donham were not   
   recorded or transcribed, and he gave authorities inconsistent   
   statements on whether a recording had ever been made, the   
   department said. Tyson took some notes of their conversation,   
   but he did not provide a firm timeline of when her confession   
   reportedly happened.   
      
   "These facts would preclude the government from proving, beyond   
   a reasonable doubt, that (Donham) recanted her previous   
   testimony when speaking with Tyson, and therefore that she lied   
   to the FBI when she denied having done so," the department wrote   
   Monday, taking care to note that DOJ lawyers were not suggesting   
   they necessarily credited her original story.   
      
   "There remains considerable doubt as to the credibility of   
   (Donham's) original account of what happened inside the store,"   
   the DOJ memo went on to explain.   
      
   However, "there is no witness the government could now call to   
   disprove her account."   
      
   When reached for comment via email, Tyson provided a lengthy   
   statement, standing by his story.   
      
   "My reporting is rock solid," Tyson said in a statement to CNN.   
   "Carolyn Bryant denies it and avoids talking about it like it   
   was the plague. I am standing in the public square telling the   
   truth as I see it based on solid evidence."   
      
   While accounts differ, memories have faded and most witnesses   
   have died, any real measure of accountability in the case has   
   eluded federal prosecutors for decades. Till was kidnapped,   
   tortured, and killed at the hands of two White men who were   
   prosecuted in state court and acquitted by an all-White jury.   
   The men later admitted to the killing in an interview with Look   
   magazine and are now dead.   
      
   Donham could not be immediately reached for comment.   
      
   This latest chapter in the notorious case is likely to leave   
   Till's remaining family members with more questions than   
   answers. The haunting picture of his mutilated body, first   
   published in Jet Magazine at his mother's request, was seared   
   into the minds of many as an enduring image of the racist   
   violence of the era.   
      
   Justice Department officials, including the head of the Civil   
   Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, flew to Chicago to brief Till's   
   remaining family members in person on Monday on what   
   investigators had found and the decision to close the case,   
   according to sources familiar with the matter.   
      
   "We cannot stop even though we don't feel that we got justice,"   
   said Ollie Gordon, one of Till's cousins. "We still must move   
   forward so that these particular hate crimes will not continue   
   to be done and no justice is found."   
      
   This story has been updated with additional reporting Monday.   
      
   CNN's Nicole Chavez contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/politics/emmett-till-case-   
   closed/index.html   
      
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