FBI reexamines '46 lynchings by white mob

Rights activists press witnesses to speak up

By Greg Bluestein, Associated Press | April 14, 2006

ATLANTA -- Nearly 60 years after a white mob lynched two black couples on a summer afternoon and got away with it, the FBI is taking another look at the case.

FBI agent Stephen Emmett said the case is being reviewed ''to ensure that any recent technology or techniques could be used to enhance the prior investigation." He would not elaborate and said a decision on whether to actually reopen the investigation has not yet been made.