Everyone has heard of the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas. The following crimes, committed by blacks, are considerably less well known.
Caffey, Fedell; Ward, Levern; and Williams, Jacqueline — Three blacks from the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg killed a white woman, Debra Evans, who was pregnant with a mulatto child, because Miss Williams wanted a “light-skinned” baby. They cut open Miss Evans and took the baby, who lived. They then killed two of Miss Evans’ other children, Samantha, 10 and Joshua, 7, who were white. (Dan Rozek, “DuPage Jury Told of Murder Plot,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 12, 1998, p.8.)
