hopes some type of justice will prevail for the victims’ families, even if it’s not a criminal conviction. McCullough, Charlie Mack Murphy, James Stokes, Mack Wilson and William Wright Jr. Still, in Georgia, a leader of a group formed to tell the story of the “Augusta Six” - John Bennett, Sammie L. Fading memories, lost evidence and the death of potential witnesses almost always pose problems in the quest for justice in decades-old cases. Suspects were already tried and acquitted in some of these killings, making prosecution on the same charges all but impossible. And investigators are looking at cases in which seven more individuals were killed, including a girl in Pennsylvania, the report showed. The agency also is investigating the killings of seven other Black men involved in student protests in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana during the societal upheaval of the late 1960s and early ‘70s. The city best known for hosting golf’s Masters Tournament had been engulfed by riots after a Black teenager was beaten to death in the county jail. The department is reviewing the killings of six men shot by police during a racial rebellion in Augusta, Georgia, in 1970, according to the agency’s latest report to Congress. The Justice Department’s decision to close its investigation of Emmett Till’s slaying all but ended the possibility of new charges in the teen’s death 66 years ago, yet agents are still probing as many as 20 other civil rights cold cases, including the police killings of 13 Black men in three Southern states decades ago.