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Tuesday Dec 8 | WDAM-TV Hattiesburg

Marion Co. authorities confident in finding murder suspect

The Marion County Sheriff's Department says it has leads in a homicide. The body of 33-year-old Jeannette Tyson was found inside a home on Duncan Road in the Kokomo Monday morning.

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Tuesday Dec 8 | Hattiesburg American

Authorities probe woman's death

Investigators for Marion County and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations are treating the death of a Kokomo woman, found Monday, as a possible homicide, according to a news release.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Hattiesburg American

Marion County deputies seek man wanted for murder

Marion County deputies are searching for a third man involved in the 2008 double homicide of two Kokomo men.

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Fri Aug 28, 2009

Hattiesburg American

Man arrested in shooting

Marion County investigators arrested a man in connection with a Tuesday shooting that left another man critically wounded.

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Wed Jul 29, 2009

The Independent

Black rights leaders demand inquiry into 'lynching'

When Raynard Johnson's body was found dangling by a belt from a bough of a pecan tree in front of his family's cinderblock home in Kokomo, Mississippi, awful memories were stirred.

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Fri Jul 10, 2009

UPI

Emmett Till's family seeking casket

NOP2000070804 - 8 JULY 2000 - KOKOMO, MISSISSIPPI, USA: Mamie Mobley, 78, whose 14-year-old son Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi in 1955, supposedly for whistling at a white woman, speaks July 8, to demonstrators in Kokomo, Miss.

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