There was a family murdered in northern Michigan a number of years ago. The murders went unsolved until this last year when an old Indian Native-American was overheard in a bar and he said that the murders took place as revenge. One of the murdered boys strung a wire up across a wooded path and a kid in their tribe came along on his motorcycle and was decapitated. So members of the local tribe went into the people's cabin and shot all six members of the family. The local police will not arrest anyone for the crime.
The week before Byrd was murdered, a black man "loved" a white man to death in Jasper, TX, by beating him over the head until his eyeballs popped out. You never heard it mentioned.
About a year ago some blacks beat, ran over, killed a white loser. Trash. He wasn't from Jasper but they met up here at the dealer's house.
It is a common belief around Jasper that drugs were involved with ALL of the murders.
James Byrd was a felon, having been arrested for burglary and dealing. "Repeat offender" on all of the charges. He was on SSI.