The girls had gone missing the day before, as they never returned home the previous night. Stinney's father worked at the town's sawmill, and the family resided in company housing. Alcolu was a small, working-class mill town, where white and black neighborhoods were separated by railroad tracks. The town was typical of small Southern towns of the time.
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Given segregated schools and churches for white and black residents, there was limited interaction between them. The bodies were discovered on the African-American side of Alcolu. The girls had been beaten with a weapon, variously reported as a piece of blunt metal or a railroad spike.
The medical examiner reported no evidence of sexual assault to the younger girl, though the genitalia of the older girl was slightly bruised. Both girls' hymens remained intact at the time of the autopsies. John was released by police, but George was held in custody.
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He was not allowed to see his parents until after his trial and conviction. He then made a confession and told me where to find a piece of iron, about 15 inches where he said he put it in a ditch about six feet from the bicycle. The year-old later claimed that the arresting officers starved him and then bribed him with food to confess.
A local white woman who remembered Stinney from childhood claimed in that he had threatened to kill her and a friend the day before the murder, and that he was known as a bully. The family feared for their safety.
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Stinney's parents did not see him again before the trial. He had no support during his day confinement and trial; he was detained at a jail in Columbiafifty miles from Alcolu, due to the risk of lynching.
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