Emmett Till investigation closed by U.S. feds; no new charges

The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi.

The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi.

The announcement came after the head of the department's civil rights division and other officials met with several of Till's relatives.

Till's family members said they were disappointed there will continue to be no accountability for the infamous killing, with no charges being filed against Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman accused of lying about whether Till ever touched her.

"Today is a day we will never forget," Till's cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., said during a news conference in Chicago. "For 66 years we have suffered pain. ... I suffered tremendously."