ZEBULON, Ga.— When a young black man was found slain outside Griffin, Georgia, in 1983, his family was too traumatized to put a headstone on his grave.
Relatives say they didn't know who killed him or if the killer might come back to vandalize a well-marked burial site. So they held a hurried, fearful funeral and left it unadorned.
Now, 34 years later, after two white men have been charged in the racially-tinged cold-case, Timothy Coggins' grave has finally been marked with his name.
The Coggins family unveiled the new headstone Saturday at their home church in Zebulon, Georgia, about 50 miles south of Atlanta.
SOURCES:
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/ex-cold-case-victim-finally-gets-headstone-in-georgia/article_5774b29b-c055-5891-b06a-22466e414c36.html
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/5082766/timothy-wayne-coggins-grave
Relatives say they didn't know who killed him or if the killer might come back to vandalize a well-marked burial site. So they held a hurried, fearful funeral and left it unadorned.
Now, 34 years later, after two white men have been charged in the racially-tinged cold-case, Timothy Coggins' grave has finally been marked with his name.
The Coggins family unveiled the new headstone Saturday at their home church in Zebulon, Georgia, about 50 miles south of Atlanta.
SOURCES:
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/ex-cold-case-victim-finally-gets-headstone-in-georgia/article_5774b29b-c055-5891-b06a-22466e414c36.html
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/5082766/timothy-wayne-coggins-grave
ZEBULON, Ga.— When a young black man was found slain outside Griffin, Georgia, in 1983, his family was too traumatized to put a headstone on his grave.
Relatives say they didn't know who killed him or if the killer might come back to vandalize a well-marked burial site. So they held a hurried, fearful funeral and left it unadorned.
Now, 34 years later, after two white men have been charged in the racially-tinged cold-case, Timothy Coggins' grave has finally been marked with his name.
The Coggins family unveiled the new headstone Saturday at their home church in Zebulon, Georgia, about 50 miles south of Atlanta.
SOURCES:
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/ex-cold-case-victim-finally-gets-headstone-in-georgia/article_5774b29b-c055-5891-b06a-22466e414c36.html
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/5082766/timothy-wayne-coggins-grave
Relatives say they didn't know who killed him or if the killer might come back to vandalize a well-marked burial site. So they held a hurried, fearful funeral and left it unadorned.
Now, 34 years later, after two white men have been charged in the racially-tinged cold-case, Timothy Coggins' grave has finally been marked with his name.
The Coggins family unveiled the new headstone Saturday at their home church in Zebulon, Georgia, about 50 miles south of Atlanta.
SOURCES:
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/ex-cold-case-victim-finally-gets-headstone-in-georgia/article_5774b29b-c055-5891-b06a-22466e414c36.html
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/5082766/timothy-wayne-coggins-grave
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