If you’re a fan of TV crime shows, you might be interested to know about one of 107 FBI cold cases being investigated just down the road from Gwinnett County. (That road would be Highway 78.)

And if you’re from the Walton County area, you might even be able to help solve it. That’s what the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and FBI are hoping.

I’m referring to the murders and lynchings of two black sharecroppers and their wives by an angry white mob on July 25, 1946, at the Moore’s Ford bridge between Walton and Oconee counties. What’s happened since then is referred to as “a veil of silence.”

According to a panel discussion this past Saturday, March 28, the case might likely be solved if the “veil” could be lifted and if anyone who knows anything would come forward. That panel included GBI Director Vernon Keenan, Gregory Jones, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta office and Cynthia Deitle, the FBI’s civil rights unit chief. Along with stating their commitment to solving the whodunit,  a documentary film, “Murders In Black and White,” was presented by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp. Mr. Beauchamp and the FBI have joined efforts in helping to solve the case.

The assembly met as part of a regular tradition of the Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee  that grows in numbers and diversity of attendees with each passing year. The aim is that the “veil of silence” will eventually be lifted. Some key person will come forward and help solve the case.

If you have any information that could help, please click here to contact the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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