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everything from the center of town for a couple of miles was white. you got past there, it was black. >> when i came to griffin, it really was a rude awakening. it was like stepping back in time. >> to be black in griffin is you always know you're black. you're never allowed to forget your blackness. >> i've been in griffin my whole life, and we have a lot of people that are still here that were bred with the racism and that are still good with it. >> new at 4:00, investigators say they are close to solving a murder they now consider a hate crime. someone killed a 23-year-old man 34 years ago. now new clues have detectives hopeful they'll solve this cold case. this was a horrible crime. in 1983, deputies found the body of timothy coggins here along

the rood. >> we live in the hood. okay? occasionally we hear shooting, but right on my street -- and on our block, we really haven't had any problems. and that could be due to god just looking out and watching over us and keeping us. when tim was murdered, and this was back, like, when we say early '80s, i think at that time no one here had ever seen a case like that where someone had been brutalized to that degree. and it became, even to me, so frightening. i can recall, i didn't normally ride around with my shotgun in the car, but i put it in there because i knew that these were some horrible people. had to be a terrible thing.

out here in the black dark. you know no one's coming. nobody's coming to your rescue. i know at some point in time, he had to come to the point where he realized, "they're not only trying to hurt me, they're going to kill me." . and that's exactly what they did. that's exactly what they did. worst part about it, they didn't kill him. autopsy showed he bled out. thrown behind a pile of woods. left to die. this is the place. this is the place. i can feel it. god have mercy. god have mercy.

>> my name is sheriff darrell dix from the spalding county sheriff's office. i was born and raised here in griffin, georgia. i started my career in law enforcement 30 years ago at the griffin police department. i retired 2016 and was elected to office of the sheriff 2017. i'm a brand-new politician. i feel strong about what my convictions are. i think that's what a lot of people don't have anymore. i mean, damn, what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. and i don't give a [ bleep ] who you are. griffin, georgia. we're located about 40 miles south of atlanta. for years griffin was known as a

mill town. that was the driving economic force here. years ago, the mills began to close down. a lot of people were put out of work. crack cocaine became a big thing, and that just seemed to compound the problem. it hit us very hard. we have a very high single-parent family rate. we have a very high teen pregnancy rate. we have a very low educational rate. so when you combine all those things, you kind of have a perfect storm for an area to be crime ridden. and we're trying as a community to dig our way out of that hole. my biggest issue was bringing the sheriff's office into the 21st century and doing everything that we could to build relationships with the

community and build bridges of communication. there has been a lot of distrust between the african-american community and law enforcement. sometimes the sheriff's office in the past has been indifferent to things that are going on in the african american community. and i think that that caused a lot of mistrust in the african-american community. i think that they -- they wanted answers sometimes, and those answers were not forthcoming. and that was the case with the murder of timothy coggins. mr. coggins was a young african-american male. his body was found in a clearcut area adjacent to a power line on the northern part of spalding county in an area known as sunnyside. he had been tortured. he was partially stripped and chained and drug up and down the power line behind a vehicle before his body was abandoned

in a wood line. >> the death of tim was hard on my family. my mom, the way she raised us, to be strong. but with tim, death was -- it took a toll. we were shocked. we're like, "who would hurt this guy?" you know, this was tim. this was the smooth guy. the guy that never bothered nobody, always helped somebody. >> my memory of tim that always stick with me is the fact that he was very sweet, and he was a very outgoing person. and a lot of tim friends was white. but, you know, tim was the type of person he'd get along with anybody. the coggins are well known, so he is a coggins. everybody knew him. so he had friends, friends and more friends. if you was looking for tim, you knew to go to the people's choice because that was his hangout. he was kind of like the

handyman. >> i used to go on little jobs with him, you know. we used to cut grass and rake yards and do things that make extra money and everything that he did was -- i really admired, because he always put me first and never let any hurt, harm, or danger come to me. >> i remember getting a call from the sheriff's department that i needed to go and see if i could identify the body of a young black male. being kinda familiar with a lot of other blacks in the community and all. i believe the sheriff's reason for calling me was that he thought, you know, that i would probably be the best person to identify him.

i went to the morgue, and they had the body laid out on the -- you know, the stainless steel table. he had seven stab wounds to the front of his chest. it was, like, one, two, one, two, three, one, two. and then he had a cross cut across the chest. and then the back it was the same way. i was later told that it represented the confederate flag. when i reported back to the sheriff and them and all, i told him i did not know who this individual was. there was no way that i could know because he was so disfigured. >> i remember i was at my sister's house, and investigators was out in the neighborhood showing pictures. when it got to us, i think my sister said, "that's tim." he had a tattoo on his arm that my sister recognized.

>> i was in eighth grade. 14 years old. and i had just come home from football practice, and my stepmom at the time told me with tears in her eyes that they found tim dead, and it was something that really devastated us all, you know, because we never knew what happened or how it happened or anything. you know, it was just a mystery. >> shortly after tim had been killed, tim's stepdad told me that he received a phone call and was told, you look into the face of the people responsible for killing tim every single day. and if he didn't want another family member to be killed, he needed to leave this investigation alone. >> it was very scary for my family, and sometimes we would

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it was very scary. my family was just like on edge because we didn't know why they killed tim. we didn't know what reason they had to kill tim. it was like every other day there was some stuff showing up. it was on a monday that my stepfather was getting ready to go out, because he drove a school bus. he went outside to crank his bus up and he came inside and he was

like, call the police. there's a shirt on my bus full of blood. so the sheriff came out, got the shirt, and we never heard anything else about it. it's like the sheriff's department is not interested. they just didn't care. >> racist white men basically controlled the city, ran the businesses, and you had these elected officials that were racist white men that pretty much controlled everything. it was a system of "we control what is said and what is done in this county." so basically, you know, a young black man being killed, that was not important to them. they didn't care about bringing the media in to try to figure out what happened, because it was just another black person dead. >> georgia's a deep south state.

georgia is the heart of the confederacy. georgia has a rich and, in many ways, ugly history of racism and white supremacy. it's helpful to look upon the south and to look at what happened as a succession of events that begins with the slave trade. coming out of that, you will have laws against blacks that you don't have against whites. the distinction between the north and the south was that in the south, racial discrimination was mandated. it was required by law that you discriminate against blacks. if in the 1940s and '50s and '60s, white people are getting

away with murder, literally getting away with murder in case after case after case, then why should it be a surprise in 1983? >> within the georgia bureau of investigation, field agents are assigned cold case files. and i was assigned the cold case file of mr. timothy coggins. and while i was doing that cold-case review process, which started in december of 2016, i was able to identify a couple of investigative leads in the case. i came and met with sheriff darrell dix, the spalding county sheriff's office. and he assigned lieutenant mike morris to be my liaison to work with on this investigation. >> you can see the -- that huge oak tree right there. and that oak tree is referred to

several times in interviews as the tree. it was a place where drug transactions occurred, parties. and the coggins body was found on the power line. >> in our community, a lot of trust had been lost and a lot of faith had been lost in the office of the sheriff. and i think that's what got me here, along with the things that i wanted to do, especially building the trust back with the community and being completely transparent. i am not a touchy touchy, feely feely sheriff, but i treat everybody with dignity and respect until they give me reason not to treat them with dignity and respect. >> sheriff darrell dix and i worked at the griffin police department for a long time. there was certain things that him and i just didn't agree upon. how you handle people. how you talk to people. that you don't have to be so

heavy-handed. that you can take a minute to talk to somebody instead of just the only talk you're gonna do is "you're going to jail" and that's it. you know, you can take a minute and you don't actually have to make the arrest. you can move towards diplomacy in certain situations. but darrell over the years had changed. >> lord jesus, i'm a sinner, but i'm sorry for my sin. i'm so sorry that i want to change. i believe that you died for my sin, and i confess them to you right now. >> as a young man, all i worried about was partying and drinking. that was what i lived for. things just really spiraled out of hand for me, and if he had not step in the and touched me, i would be in jail or i

would be dead. and i got on with the griffin police department, and there were things that i experienced in my 30 years there that let me know that god plays a role. you know, here i am, i'm 52 years o years old, and i went from being somebody that was literally homeless and a drunk to being the sheriff of this great county. so my motivation to solve this case without a doubt is the fact that it's the right thing to do. i believe that there's a lot of honor involved in doing it. and i want to give closure to the coggins family. i want to let timothy coggins rest in piece and by doing that, that's doing the right thing. when we were looking for some of the missing evidence, we were

looking everywhere that we could. and we went to where there are some old property archived downtown. and while we were looking for stuff dealing with the case, we came up with this small black notebook right here. norman foskey diary. that's the name of the officer who did this. what he has done is i think he has embedded himself, as they call it now, with the local klan group, kind of infiltrated it to see what's going on. and in this notebook, there are some -- some indications that there were things going on with the klan that some people here at the sheriff's office knew about. it centers around a gentleman named johnny knowles, who was one of the leaders of the klan here in spalding county. [ bleep ] and on johnny knowles said, "you are making the best move of your life. it's about time white people

stood up for their rights and put a stop to all this [ bleep ]." johnny knowles then stated that we could be given the oath. thursday, may 20, 1982. 15 minutes after midnight, myself and deputy [ bleep ] are sworn into the national order of the knights of the ku klux klan by johnny knowles. johnny knowles then stated that he had a number of good klan in the police and sheriff's departments. a star. at this point unsure of who to trust. will try and find out who in the department is klan. he kind of sets the tone for the climate that was here, you know, back -- you know, you're talking just a little bit around a year from the time that this was writing until the time that timothy coggins' body was found. and i think that back then racism and white supremacy were almost accepted as norms in some places in the south.

>> i was born a segregationist! i live a segregationist! and i'm gonna die a segregationist! >> my klan movement is on the rise back to power, and all the evils that's going on in the world is makes it easy for you to join us. >> in 1983, i worked for the spalding county sheriff department. and tim and i, we had always been good friends. with his death, i was just heartbroken. now, the way i got involved in his death was i saw tim on the street.

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were gone. tim was a free spirit type of person. it was like, you couldn't tell tim he couldn't talk to this person because he was white, but we always knew it was kind of bad to be out in public with black people. black and white couldn't just mingle together. >> it all centered around, i think, money and that girl, whoever she was. you see, tim, we had developed that he took money in a dope deal. >> what i started to learn and discover as i'm working along with this case was that these white males were in the community looking to buy drugs, and that they had given tim money to go and buy drugs. we never learned where the money went to, but i can recall being told that tim was absolutely terrified, you know, and he was

desperately trying to get up that money. >> for weeks, several of us worked on that case until we started getting a little bit too close to who had killed tim. where tim's body was found, i knew those people came from the trailer park, because who else knew about that secluded place over in there? you had a lot of vicious people in that trailer park, and i knew somebody in that trailer park called that sheriff. >> i reported back to the gbi at that time and the sheriff. i was sharing everything that i learned, but i wasn't privy to whatever they were finding out and whatever they learned. next thing i know, it ended abruptly. them just coming to me, saying,

okay, we've reached a dead end. we can't go any further. i don't think the attention that should have been put on this case was put on this case, probably due to, you know, the color. >> when they took me off, they told me that it wasn't my job, because i was a road deputy, and i wasn't a so called investigator. all because i was getting a little bit too close, along with oscar jordan. >> the people that were in law enforcement and higher ups made sure that nobody really talked about it. it was not important enough to them to even look at it, to try to figure out what happened. truthfully, i believe that someone in the sheriff department knew all the time what had happened and why it had happened.

♪ >> while you tend to see the majority of your murders solved with physical evidence, locating a gun at a crime scene and information like that, cold cases tend to take the other route, where witnesses tend to hear people admitting to the murder, like in this case. in 2007, the gbi received a letter and it read -- gbi, i would like to talk to someone about a murder that i know about. i know what happened and who did it. i show them and know how come they killed. would someone come and talk to me?

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when i was conducting the cold case review, i identified an individual named christopher vaughan, who had come forward and indicated that he had information. mr. vaughan is a convicted felon for offenses involving child molestation. and he had been interviewed a few times in the past, but nothing had really ever been done with that information. today's date is wednesday, april 26, 2017. about to attempt to conduct an interview with mr. christopher vaughan. what is it that you're looking to gain out of this? >> parole, maybe. see, i've got three sentences running consecutive. there's nothing, but maybe run them concurrent. >> as a law enforcement agent, i

can't make any promises to you. do you have information about who murdered timothy coggins? >> i know who done it. well, he says he done it, so -- >> okay. and who is that? >> frankie gebhardt. >> okay. >> christopher vaughan indicated that franklin gebhardt and william moore had committed the murder of mr. coggins. >> mr. moore and mr. gebhardt both have an extensive criminal history, and mr. gebhardt had been interviewed back in 1983, but no real further investigative acts were pursued in the investigation. >> christopher vaughan was 10 years old when this incident happened. and he lived at a house that was right at the corner of kerry's mobile home park, which is the last known location that timothy coggins was seen alive. >> you had seen timothy coggins and frankie hanging out before, right? >> yeah, as a matter of fact

that night it was bill, frankie, and i forget her name, his old lady at the time. >> ruth? >> i think so. >> okay. >> the one that was messing with coggins. >> yeah. how do you know that they were having sex? >> he told us. that was the whole purpose of him and bill killing him. >> based on that information and the fact that we knew that tim was dancing with a white woman, and we believe that white woman was ruth elizabeth guy. she also went by mickey guy. that that was the tipping point for the murder. we do know that a week or two weeks after the murder occurred that mickey guy left the state of georgia. but she died in 2010. >> i was with frankie from late '77 to '81. our son was born in '81. i left him then before my son was born. i mean, i was terrified of him. we rode down the road in a car, and how most people ride down the road and a car passes by you and you just look, i didn't do

things like that, because i would get slapped. what are you looking in that car for? yeah. i would be riding down a road in a car looking at the floor board, and that's the way i road in a car. >> we went in a store, my eyes stay straight ahead. i wasn't allowed to wear makeup. i wasn't allowed to wear shorts. i wasn't allowed to wear bathing suits. none of that. he's a very controlling person. >> gebhardt and moore coming up through the '70s and '80s, both of them had pretty bad reputations of being pretty rough people. they were very intimidating, and they played that, and i think that there were a lot of people out there that were just scare odd of them. so when things like that happened, people were scared to talk about what happened. they were scared to talk about what they knew because they were in fear of retribution. they were afraid that these

people were going to come kill them or kill somebody in their families, because that's the type of reputation those people had. >> during the course of this investigation, mr. gebhart was incarcerated in the spalding county detention center on unrelated charges to this investigation. >> date is april 27, 2017. the time is approximately 11:47 a.m. attempting an interview with mr. frank gebhardt. >> just have a seat right there. >> i'm 59 years old. i can't read. can't write. half-ass dumb. >> we're just trying to talk to you, sir. >> the reason we're here is in 1983 there was a body found in north spalding county. a black guy that was found. do you remember the murder? >> no, not really. >> but that picture of that guy, though -- >> i ain't never saw that

picture. i ain't never saw that [ bleep ]. >> when you're doing something like this, like an investigation like this, you know, it's no holds barred. we decided that this would be a good opportunity to do a wire tap. >> i tell them i didn't know a d damn thing. i was illiterate. i was dumb. >> keep your mouth shut. don't agree to no tests, don't agree to nothing. >> sandra bunn is frankie gebhardt's sister, and she was, at the time, the focal point of the wire. her phone had the most activity on it. she's the one that frankie gebhardt was calling from jail. >> don't take no drinks from them. >> don't take no drinks, no ma'am. >> yes, and don't give them no kind of dna, no swab or nothing. >> i told frankie not to give them dna. okay. so darrell dix gets a court order, and he said, "let me get

the dna." so he pulls his badge off and slings it on the floor. >> when i turned around, i threw my badge down on the ground and i said, basically, i don't have my badge on now. what are you going to do? don't just stand there and run your mouth. get up and do something. or shut up. >> and he started on that, i'm not going to do this. so i said i'll give you a choice, we can get your dna out of the back of your mouth or we'll swab it up off of this floor. choice is yours. >> i have never had this much trouble out of one sheriff in my life, and i have been living here all my life. never had i had this much trouble. darrell dix is playing the media to do this. to make him look good. to get the black votes. and they just hearing darrell dix's side. they're hearing nothing else . is now a good time for a flare-up?

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at that point in this investigation, we kind of made a move that some people thought was unusual when we reached out to the news media and told them that we believed that we were close to making an arrest in the murder of timothy coggins. and the gamble was that we didn't at that time have enough information to make arrests. and what we were hoping to do was stir people to step forward. >> investigators say witnesses are finally coming forward in a 34-year-old murder. >> the sheriff says some witnesses have already come forward, but he expects there are still some out there with even more information, betser information. he's hoping they're either going to contact either the gbi or the spalding county sheriff's office. >> as we went out into the community and began to really shake the bushes, things started to come together on the case. we started to gather more and

more information from more people than had originally come forward in the first investigation. >> back in 1980-something, you managed the a&b trailer park, wasn't it? >> oh, that was later. >> okay. >> pomona is where they lived. >> you're talking about -- >> i'm talking about brenda and bill. >> brenda and bill. >> yeah, that's when they lived there. see, his wife was frankie's sister. she dies years ago. >> is that brenda? >> yeah. >> and what you're talking about brenda telling you is what you was telling me the other day. >> yeah. >> will a tell me that again? >> she was drunk, and i don't know where bill and frankie went. she said, i'm telling you, he's going kill him. they're going to tie him up and they're going to drag him with a car or truck. i'm going, brenda, get your drunk an over there and go to

bed. you know, a drunk person, you just don't know. you really brush 'em off. then they -- when you got so many tenants, you really do. and you don't want to believe none of that, but it was something about a boy. well, it's several times probably. i'm thinking several times, because frankie was always going to beat up somebody. >> bill moore's the one who killed him. >> how do you know that? >> he told me he done it. >> bill told you that -- >> bill didn't, but frankie did. and he tell me he didn't kill him. all he done is tie the chain around his feet and drug him out down there in the woods. i was up at frankie's and we was having us a beer. and frankie said, i heard y'all found that body over yonder on the power line. i said, yeah, we found him. and he said, well, me be bill put him there. he said, bill stabbed him and i tied the chain to him and drug

him down on the power line. and i did report him. a week after frankie told me him and bill put him there. that's the reason i'm wondering why they're making such a big to-do about it right now. if they wanted to do something, they'd have done it 30 years ago. >> there were a lot of common threads that were -- that were in those interviews and the stories that were starting to come forward. we were able to hear conversations that dealt with this case. we were able to monitor phone calls that were going in and out of the jail. there was also some information there that was pretty damning. and that's how we believed that we had enough to go forward with the prosecution.

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this crime screams anger, screams hatred. >> timothy coggins was a young black man in 1983 who wasn't following the rules of 1983. >> the mentality is still the same. i don't care what year it is. >> he had been tortured and then he had a cross cut cross his chest. it represented the confederate flag. >> he was murdered brutally by these people that could care less about him and left him there like a dog. >> the people who committed this crime wanted to send a message.

why? >> not only do i not have dna, i don't have physical evidence at all. >> several of us worked on that case until we started getting a little bit too close to who had killed tim. >> i have never known my dad to be a violent person. my dad is not a heartless person. >> do you think they're going to find anything in the well? >> nothing but a bunch of dirt. >> it's been 34 years for us to be here, and we are finally here. >> i thought, oh, my gosh, this is it. i don't know if i can get in this car with this thing behind my back. i'm telling you now. >> we have to put him in front if we can. >> i wished you would cause i can't get in, i'm telling you.

i can't work my legs. i mean, i ain't got nothing to hide. i don't recall nothing about what y'all even talking about. i mean, my whole entire life now, i'm serious. hey, charles, you got brandy's phone number? >> who? >> brandy. down at the -- yeah, call the doctor's office and get a hold of her, tell her what's going on. >> tonight, an arrest in what investigators are calling a racially motivated murder going back to 1983. >> there is no doubt in the minds of all investigators involved that the crime was racially motivated. >> frankie gebhardt and bill moore senior were charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and concealing of the death of another. the victim's friends and family saying now they can rest a bit easier. >> even on my grandmother's deathbed, she knew that justice would one day be served. >> i was surprised when they were arrested, but i say my prayers every night, i got that

from my mama. and when i would ask them to watch over my siblings it was just like tim's name just kept spitting out of my mouth. telisa, mina, peggy, jacob, tyrone, tim and i kept saying why am i doing this? i just kept saying tim's name -- and it was just like so weird to me. i said lord bless him anyway. and i just felt like this is what lord was trying to show me because i kept spitting his name out and it felt good to know that they arrested somebody for tim's murder. >> they showed up on the 13th and arrested my dad. >> they had this hearing at the courthouse and darrell dix, the sheriff, announced to the news media, if you want to see the accused and the people who have done this to mr. coggins, be be at the spalding county jail at such and such time and you'll be able to take their picture and go from there.

>> frankie's arrest we found quite amusing, because he was literally brought out of the jail. he was walked around to the front of the jail where all the cameras were at and walked in in the jumpsuit that he was already wearing, because he was already under arrest and he was already in custody of the spalding county sheriff's department. >> these two men, i have seen them on the street, in the stores and the service stations, auto parts stores. you know, i know i have run into them. and to think that i was possibly standing this close to the person that brutally murdered by cousin. for 34 years they went on with their lives like nothing happened. you know, tim didn't get that opportunity. >> we had no knowledge of this timothy coggins case. i had never heard of this my entire life, and i'm 41 years old. >> hey, little man. what you got?

>> oh, man. we got all kind of toys in here to play in the bathtub with. oh, lord, look. who's that? >> i've never known my dad to be a violent person. i mean, he's always protected his family. he was the type of man who would go to work and work very hard, come home, and that was it. my dad did pulp wood. >> lord have mercy! >> everyone has their flaws, but my dad is not a heartless person. >> my name is marie green broder. i am the chief assistant district attorney for the griffin judicial circuit. when i wanted to go to law school, it was initially because i was very interested in prosecution. that was really my only passion at the time. my mother's brother was murdered

when he was in college. he was stabbed multiple times, and the judicial process left a poor taste in my family's mouth, and i saw the affects of that for years. and that is why i went to law school and became a prosecutor. >> all right, so the case file's short. this is become -- it's insane to me this is a murderer case at all. when you reviewed the case file did you feel the case was solvable? >> yes, i did. >> you sift through the 1983 case file. and you mentioned earlier that you also wanted to find out if there was any evidence. >> yes. >> what did you find? >> i found that the vast majority of the evidence that had been collected had since disappeared. >> okay. >> we located a large rock, a cast from where the rock came out of the ground, the jeans of the victim and the underwear of

the victim, and that was it. >> okay. preparing for this trial is exceptionally challenging. not only do i not have dna, i don't have physical evidence at all. i mean, i have clothing from the scene from our victim, and i have a sheet used to cover the victim, and i have a rock, and that's it. so you rely on statements. you rely on admissions. and you rely on the crime scene. >> frankie's allegation was that people don't like me. that's a lot of people who don't have any connection to each other. >> well, and we don't choose the witnesses to come in here and testify. i've never had a murderer trial that consistented of preachers, deacons, whatever you want to say. nuns. i would love that. >> so you've got convicted felon, convicted felon, convicted felon, convicted felon, convicted felon, convicted felon, convicted

felon, convicted felon. here's your case. throughout this investigation, when i've looked at it, reports are incomplete, evidence is missing, and the most disturbing thing to me in the investigation is somehow in these old reports, frankie gebhardt's name comes up. it's not clear as to why he becomes a suspect. he is interviewed, and then four days later no more significant steps are taken in the investigation. and then for all intents and purposes, the investigation ends. now, there is a well on frankie gebhardt's property. when i took this case and i began examining it, i have believed wholeheartedly that there was something in that well. he told too many people that he threw stuff in that well. so as i began to get more and

more involved in the case, i began to get, i think some people would say pushy, i tend to say passionate, about getting in the well. and our operational location's going to be at the residence of mr. franklin gebhardt, who's currently incarcerated here at the spalding county jail on those charges. once we secure the location, our non-essential personnel are going to be released from the scene. >> the important thing was if we found anything in that well that we could trace back to timothy coggins, then that's powerful stuff. >> we're pulling up at the west sunnyside church, which is going to be the staging location for the operation. frankie's house is about 400 meters down the road right there.

>> i woke up this morning to a very nice message telling me that my grandmother's house was swarmed by police officers and gbi agents. this is bright and shining star evidence of the extent that they want to go to to attack my family. >> would you be going there at some point? >> oh, no, i won't step on the property over there. that would give darrell dix a reason to put me in jail. >> do you think they're going to find anything in the well? >> i do not. nothing but dirt. but i'm interested to see how much dirt they can pull out of

it. >> so, we went out there, and i was a ball of nerves. what if it's just dirt? we find nothing? as the excavation began, it was just dirt and gravel and dirt and gravel. and then they started to hit burned trash. and at that point i thought, oh, my gosh. this is it. we're going to find something

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the next day we began to sift through all the trash. there was a huge pile of trash. >> we found a lot of items of evidentiary value during that search. we found a single knife. it was broken in multiple pieces. then on top of that, we recover a adidas shoe, and then we bring up a shirt that has what appear to be stabbing marks. >> so these wounds right here would actually be lower back

belt line. upper body. >> upper body. >> that's where he was stabbed. >> when we spread the shirt out, i was excited, but also sad, because in the back of that shirt were what appeared to be seven stab wounds. and accordingly to the autopsy report, timothy coggins was stabbed in the back seven times. you can't isolate one motive in this case. there are allegations that this was a drug deal gone bad. that timothy coggins dealt drugs. i think that's true. so, there's that. racial in nature. the crime scene itself lends one to believe wholeheartedly that this crime was racial in nature. the people who committed this crime, frankie gebhardt, bill moore, wanted to send a message. why? why would they want to send a message using someone like timothy coggins? because timothy coggins was

dealing marijuana in white areas of town and dancing with white women. timothy coggins was a young black man back in 1983 who refused to follow societal norms. he was not following the rules of 1983, if you will. and if you were a klan member or a racist, any of those things would infuriate you and anger you to the point where timothy coggins became a target. a target that needed to be eliminated and a message that needed to be sent. >> white power, brothers and sisters! white power. >> leading up to timothy coggins' death you had cross burnings, you had kkk rallies. the atmosphere is charged. and then in october of 1983 when this all comes to a head, timothy coggins is brutally murdered, the media doesn't seem to care about it. the police don't seem to care about it. the coggins family is receiving all these horrible threats to

stay quiet, and the community shuts down. has griffin, georgia, changed in the past 30 to 40 years? yeah. i mean, of course. racism was blatant back in 1983, and all the witnesses tell us that. but the griffin that we live in now, i think that the racism that you see is not as blatant. i think it's still there. i think sometimes people don't want to believe that. people tell themselves, right, that we've progressed as a society to the point where racism is gone, and that's just not true. >> well, as far as griffin being better or worse as far as racism is concerned, the mentality is still the same. i don't care what year it is. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the city of griffin board of commissioners. present a proclamation declaring april 2018 to be confederate history month. >> there are a group of people who asked for a confederate

month proclamation. now, what if i came in here one day and i said, can i get a proclamation for nat turner day? nat turner killed a whole lot of white people. would you be offended from that? >> my name is larry johnson. there were white folks. there were black folks when i was growing up. >> okay. >> there was white trash. my family. and there was [ bleep ] town. i lived next to [ bleep ] town. >> you lived next to what town? >> [ bleep ] town, son. i'm telling you now i've changed. i'm no longer white trash, and they're no longer called that. now, wait a minute. >> mr. mccord, let him have his minute. mr. mccord, please. >> i apologize for being offensive, but i told you back then -- >> the makeup of the room in the city commission meeting was majority white. he was very comfortable with saying what he said. but only thing larry johnson did

for me that day was he pulled the mask off himself. my point being, whatever is in a person is eventually going to come out. >> now if y'all think, if y'all want to clap and think that's okay for this gentleman to stand in 2018 and he is using the n-word, not once, twice, three times, and he just continues to say that word without worrying who it offends. and if nobody else is offended, then i am. >> we, as black people, you know, i think we're still trying to learn the lesson that, you know, freedom is not free. it'll always take a lot more to undo than it does to prevent. and i think, you know, if we ever come to the point where we learn that lesson as a people, then we're not going to have to struggle as hard or as much.

but i can see as a black man myself that if we don't stay alert and we don't stay vigilant, those things are always trying to be changed back. >> when the history of griffin is written, when these minutes are written, which side would you like to say you sided with, when your great grandkids and grandkids or your kids look at them? >> there is still a lot of racism. you can still see confederate flags flying in people's front yards and stuff. and that is still deep rooted in a lot of areas. and it does have an effect. and there are events that happen that are just absolutely polarizing. >> crowds are clearing after a rally in newnan. white nationalists were met by hundreds of counterprotestors. >> we are the national socialist movement and the nationals front.

we stand here today on behalf of the white race here in america. >> no hatred, no fear. >> from my perspective, again, dealing with mr. coggins, we go out and we do the right thing by arresting these people, bill moore and frankie gebhardt, who thought they were untouchable, and i wanted to send a message, you're not above the law, and you're touchable. >> william f. moore sr. well, how you doing? >> hanging in there. >> uh-huh. you ain't heard from your lawyer or nobody? >> no. >> nobody? >> no. >> oh, well. i know in my heart bill moore did not have nothing to do with

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>> dear heavenly father, thank you for today. and lord, we pray that the things that are discussed here today is very important to the outcome of the case that relates to tim. so we just thank you, lord, for favor. and just be with us all daily. these in all things we ask in your precious and holy name, amen. >> amen. >> so, we have court, and we never know what we're going to hear when we get there but we don't react to it. their family's going through something just like ours is, so we are there for one reason only, to see justice. they're going to possibly paint tim in an ugly light, but at the end of the day, whatever happens, whatever led up to it, whatever the reasons are, it doesn't negate the fact that he was murdered and murdered brutally by these people could carele less about him and

just left him there like a dog. >> the first witness that we'll be calling is the medical examiner. all right, there were a lot of injuries to tim. i don't know that y'all have seen or know exactly where those injuries are. he's going to talk about all that, and that's going to be difficult for y'all to see, right? because you're going to have to imagine what he went through, so i wanted to prepare you for that. the photos that i'm most worried about, um -- are tim at the scene and then tim at the morgue. so i do want to give y'all a opportunity to look at them.

>> i'm so sorry, y'all. >> you have nothing to be sorry about. >> you don't need to apologize. having to see somebody that you love like that, you never think you'll have to see that. in a case like this, there is a lot of pressure. there's pressure from a family who just wants closure and they just want justice. and every time you stand up in a courtroom, you feel that, right? it's right here. it's in your heart and it's on your shoulders, and all you want is to give them that gift of closure.

>> okay, i call the case of 18r-105a, state versus franklin george gebhardt. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. you are the jury on this case. you shall well and truly try the issue formed upon this indictment between the state of georgia and franklin george gebhardt, who is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another. and a true verdict give, according to the evidence, so help you god. thank you. you may take your hands down. are there any witnesses in the courtroom? if so, please raise your hands. okay. y'all will be required to wait outside the courtroom. you're also prohibited from discussing testimony in this case with any other or in the presence of any other witness on this case until the case is concluded. >> when i held up the indictment, the name bill moore is on it.

there's on only one man at that table faced with the charges here today. bill moore's trial will come. his day in court will come, but it is not today. this man's day in court is today. >> ladies and gentlemen, there's a matter i must take up outside of your presence so ask thaw briefly step into the jury room. and again, remember my instructions during any break or recess you're not to discuss the case. the bailiffs will please bring in ms. brandy abercrombie, please. ms. abercrombie, if you would please step to the podium please. and if you would state your name for the record. >> brandy abercrombie. >> and ms. abercrombie, are you

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>> state's exhibit four. that's the incise wound. and for the record, when i say that -- >> crossing the "x" here. >> so it is in the form of a "x." >> yes.

>> at one time he told me they stabbed him 18 to 30 times, drug him up and down the power lines, and then stabbed him again. >> this what he told you? >> yes, ma'am. >> what is your sentence that you're currently under for the child molestation conviction? >> 50 years. >> 50 years? and when you reinterviewed, did you recall asking them about consecutive opposed to concurrent sentences? >> that's what i asked for, but there was never nothing promised. >> did he ever give you any details about how the murder occurred? >> he said that they had drug him and gutted him. >> you decided it was a good time for you to come forward with this valuable information that you knew, right? >> yes. >> and you did that when you were incarcerated at the spalding county jail. >> yes. >> okay. and let me ask you -- in the 33, 34 years that you were sitting on all this information, why didn't you come forward with it at any point during that time? >> well, for your information, sir, i've been in and out of prison for the last 20-something

years. i thought myself, you know, it's all died down. nothing's ever came of that. >> the strategy that we had was to attack everything, because there seemed to be no smoking gun. it was basically jailhouse witnesses or people that had a vendetta against frankie gebhardt, and scant evidence that was eventually recovered from the well that we thought amounted to nothing. they had a piece of a very tiny appearing to be old steak knife that was in frankie gebhardt's trash sometime during the 1980s. sneakers that don't match anything. a chain that they're implying must have been used to drag mr. coggins' body. but then they don't match that up with the pulley and the bucket that were found also in a

well, which would make just total sense to find in a well. my opinion and our defense was what the state put up in all of their so-called evidence equaled zero. >> now, the items that came out of the well, one was this -- what we believe -- what y'all believe was a v-neck or tank top shirt, is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> that shirt was not sent to the crime lab for any kind of testing, correct? >> it was not. >> okay. thank you. >> the gbi was asked to test these items recovered from the well, correct? >> yes, we were. >> okay. but based on how the items were stored in the well and the extraction process, it was determined that no testing would be done on these items. >> that is correct. >> okay. >> in order to defeat the defense strategy or the defense theory in a case like this, you

want to be able to present a cohesive story, a believable story. you present the most compelling witnesses to the jury and you say, because it's the truth, and they believe in the truth, believe them. that's all we're asking you to do is believe them. >> in 1983 what was the racial climate here in spalding county? >> in my opinion, you know, there was a good bit of racism. there were a lot of times when, you know, you would get, you know, sense of not being welcomed or not being wanted. >> and i said, tim, now, if i told you once, i told you twice. you need to be careful about dating caucasian women in griffin. >> i recall one night, i was sitting home. we was watching tv.

and a loud noise hit the front door. and it was a brick and on the brick it said, you're next. >> during this second conversation with mr. gebhardt, what did he tell you? >> he stated to me that he was part of the ku klux klan. >> do you think that's why he felt comfortable talking to you? >> i do. >> they've made a apologies throughout this. well, we're sorry. this investigation was not done right in 1983, and we're sorry about that. and there was evidence lost and we're sorry about that. and our witnesses come from the jailhouse and we're sorry about that. that's just all we got. yes, we're sorry about that too. we're sorry that pretty much everybody apparently at the spalding county jail has decided that it's their free ticket out of jail. so they've got lots of apologizes for what they couldn't prove in this case. what they didn't prove in this case. and what they didn't prove is beyond a reasonable doubt that frankie gebhardt committed a murder. >> prosecutors are often

referred to as ministers of justice, and today you'll hear my sermon about good versus evil. right versus wrong. to say that the investigation in 1983 was bad is an understatement. it was horrific. it was shameful. it's no wonder that the sentiment was that all timothy coggins was another dead black man. because he was. he was. we can atone for the sins of the past. we can right the wrongs. this crime screams anger. it screams hatred. but make it scream justice. when migraine strikes, dissolve it with nurtec: the only quick-dissolve treatment for migraine attacks that can get many people back to normal activities

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>> ladies and gentlemen, i'm going to bring this jury in and we're going to receive the verdict. and we're going to receive it in silence and respect. in the superior court of spalding county, state of georgia, state of georgia versus william franklin gebhardt, having considered whether the state has proven each element of the following offenses, we the jury unanimously find as follows. count one, malice murder, guilty. count two, felony murder, guilty. count three, aggravated battery, guilty. count four, aggravated assault,

guilty. count five, concealing the death of another, guilty. >> we are completely grateful to be here today. it has been 34 years for us to be here, and we are finally here, and now we can go back to tim's grave, as well as my grandmother's grave, and we can say, hey, you guys can now rest in peace. so for that, judge sams, we are eternally grateful. >> mr. gebhardt, if you would please stand. mr. gebhardt, the jury having found you guilty of counts one through five, i sentence you as follows. count one is that you will serve life in prison. count two will merge into count one. on count three you will serve 20 years in prison consecutive to count one. count four will merge into counts two and one. and in count five, you will serve ten years in prison

consecutive to counts one and three. and hopefully, sir, you have stabbed your last victim. you have 30 days within which to file a motion for new trial or direct appeal in this case. y'all may take mr. gebhardt away, please. >> we never thought that this day would come. we always hoped that it would come. we've just been so happy that my brother finally, finally got justice. something that we wanted for all these years. and for us just to get it, you know, just was outstanding. you know, and i believe in my heart that the jury, you know, they got it right. you know, i believe in my heart that the sheriff's department, the gbi, the d.a., they all got it right. so we've just been very, very happy. >> frankie was, from the very start, being set up as the poster boy for atonement. the verdict was a combination of a lot of things. it's revolved around the need

for retribution for the racism of the past. so the emotion and the need to hold someone accountable was, i think, what the state was relying on. >> i think the defense did the best that they could with what they had. they threw considerable doubt, considerable doubt. but i think the prosecution had a much better story, and i think that there's enough memory in this case that was backed up by physical evidence or by another person's memory. as a matter of fact, we counted 17 times that mr. gebhardt admitted to the murder in some kind of way over the years. >> judge sams sent me to jail for 20 days, and i stayed in there for two or three.

and because they plastered my face all over the tv, i'm scared to go in public. i've went to the grocery store once, and that was it. >> originally my client didn't want me to represent him. he said, a black man will come here, i'm going to get hanged. with me, it's not about guilt or innocence. i would represent someone who killed my mother. i take an oath to represent my client to the best of my ability, so i have to strip myself from being a black man and be a lawyer.

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the evidence against moore was pretty convincing. and my job is to present to him

both sides of the coin. if you follow the jury in the first case, the evidence was circumstantial. but the jury will have felt sorry for mr. coggins. and i think the jury was sending a message -- we're not going to take that down here. so i say, okay, i need to talk to my client. and i tell him, if i take this case to trial, you know you're going to get life. and i went on every piece of evidence and tell him why. and he said, okay, why don't you start talking to the d.a. about making a deal on my behalf? so he pled guilty to manslaughter, not to murder. >> the state has agreed to allow you to plead to voluntary manslaughter and a charge of concealing the death of another. you understand that, sir? >> yes, sir. >> at this time, do you freely and voluntarily enter your plea of guilty? >> yes, sir. >> mr. moore, the sentence on count one shall be 20 years to serve in prison.

the sentence on count five will be ten years probation, consecutive to count one. you will get credit for any time served. thank you. now take him away. >> my client did the best he could have done in this situation not to die in prison. but he wasn't remorseful, because he felt he didn't do anything wrong. they were going to teach this black man a lesson. and they were going to teach that young lady stay away from black men, because when you mess with them, this is what happen to them. >> i'm glad it worked out. >> oh, i am. that's it, y'all.

>> that's it. >> that's it, y'all. >> i know. you've been through so much. and i understand and i'm so sorry. and i know that if the shoe was on the other foot, you would totally understand where we are. >> i'm sorry this happened to your family. i really am. but i feel like -- >> that's your dad. and you've loved him, and you see the good things about him. the good grandfather he is. good dad he is. and then this, you know, it's kind of -- you know? we know that no one wins here. our family lost 35 years ago. we know that your family has lost as well. nobody wins. >> i think brandy really needed someone. she had very limited family support there. and we're not angry at her. she didn't do anything to us or our family. this is something her father did. she had no control. i cannot imagine living 34 years thinking that my father, my dad,

or my grandfather was a certain man, to find out he was a monster, to find out that he was someone capable of doing something so brutal and so heinous. >> i think it's a different time in spalding county. i think that times have changed, i think that us, as a community, we're moving forward. is everything perfect? no, i don't think everything is perfect for one minute. but i can tell you that we're -- we're a long way away from where we were in 1983. we're going continue to make things better to the best of our ability. >> this is not a whodunnit. this is the why. and the why is history. the why is a way of looking at what's going on, and you can't look back at a history of, well, of course we punish white people for killing black people. we always have. there's none of that. there's no history of that. it's hard to stamp out evilness.

but i really want to believe there is change. and you start by revealing the stories, revealing the cases and putting a mirror up to the south and making it look at itself and the way it acted. and to ask, well, what am i doing today that encourages or enables that behavior or doesn't stand up against that kind of behavior? >> father god, we would like to thank you for allowing us to come together in celebration of timothy wayne coggins. amen. thank you for allowing the sun to beautifully set over all of us this morning. and the joy we feel is so profound. [ cheers and applause ]

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