At Last: Timothy Coggins

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On October 9th 1983, the body of a young man was found in a field off of Minter road, near the small community of Sunnyside, Georgia. Although the man’s killer would confess to different people at least 17 times over the years, the case was not solved until it was reexamined 33 years later.

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Episode Transcript

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There is no doubt in the mindsof all investigators involved that the crime was
racially motivated and that if the crimehappened to day, it would be prosecuted
as a hate crime. Welcome toCrime Maps. I Am Aileen and I'm
Charlie. This episode deals with topicssuch as hate crimes and racism that may

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be triggering for listeners. Listener discretionis advised. On October ninth, nineteen
eighty three, the body of ayoung man was found in a field off
Mentor Road near the small community ofSunnyside, Georgia. Although the man's killer
would confess to different people at leastseventeen times over the next years, the

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case was not solved until it wasre examined thirty three years later. This
is at last, decades after legislationfor civil rights were passed, areas in
rural Georgia was still what was knownas sundown towns. The term comes from

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discriminatory and ethical exclusions by residents forcefullykeeping black people and people of color from
their area with a warning not tobe seen there after. Sundown from force
segregation to lynching. The majority ofGriffin County and Georgia were far from integrated
klu Klux Klan factions still held significantinfluence, having infiltrated government and policing positions.

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On October ninth, nineteen eighty three, a group were out in a
field along Minto Road near Griffin,Georgia, around thirty miles from Atlanta.
As they were hunting for squirrels.One of the young boys in the group
told one of the men not toshoot because he'd seen a man sleeping beneath
a tree. The tree was knownto some locals as the Hanging Tree.

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During the height of brutality against blackpeople in America, innocent black people were
sometimes hung from trees. Decades earlier, Billie Holiday had sung about those atrocities
in the song Strange Fruit. Thewords go, Southern trees bear strange fruit,
blood on the leaves and blood atthe root. Black bodies swinging in
the southern breeze, strange fruit hangingfrom the popular trees. When the hunting

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group approached the Hanging Tree, theysaw a young man lying on the ground.
It was clear that he was deadand had been for a few days.
It was ten thirty am on aSunday morning in October. The men
rang the Sheriff's office, and theyarrived soon after. Crime scene analysts began
documenting and collecting evidence from the scene, which indicated that the man had died

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of violent death. The young blackmale lay topless on the ground. His
blue jeans were dirty and hung low. He was soiled with mud and blood,
and decomposition had begun. The victimalso had no shoes or socks on
his feet. A sweater was foundalong a pathway, and there were also
tire tracks and drag marks which indicatedthat a car had dragged the victim along

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the ground before he died. Notonly that, but there were a number
of areas of an apparent struggle.Grass was flattened and blood stained a hole
where a rock had been a bloodyrock found fifty feet away from the hole.
There were also a Jack Daniel's bottle, blue fibers, and a broken
wooden club found near the areas whereheavy blood staining was seen. The victim's

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body was covered with a white sheetand taken to the Spalding County Hospital,
where a post mortem examination was carriedout by the medical examiner Warren Tillman.
There are various methods of determining avictim's estimated time of death. From measuring
the victim's body temperature, the rateof rigor mortis observed, and he remains
that have begun to decompose. Amedical examiner can use a process called forensic

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entomology. This is the study ofinsect activity and a corpse to determine the
time that has passed since they died. If maggots a press and on a
corpse, the developmental stage of themaggots can be used to give an estimated
time of death. Maggots are thelarvae of flies. Soon after death,
flies will be attracted to any openwounds or offices on a body and they

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will begin to lay eggs. Overa period of time, these larvae will
feed malt and pupates, which isa process before they emerge as adult flies.
Each of these stages has identifying featuressuch as the color of the insect,
the breathing holes present in the shell, or an empty shell. By
examining the insect activity on the victim'sbody in this case, the medical examine

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was able to determine that the victimhad been dead for approximately two days.
The victim's body was covered in injuriesranging from abrasions, which are hemorrhages beneath
the skin, from the skin beingscratched against the surface, to lacerations,
which are open wounds that are usuallycaused by blunt trauma, and puncture wounds
caused by a sharp object penetrating theskin. The victim's body had abrasions all

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over. There were eight lacerations ontheir head, two inside wounds on the
neck, a puncture wound in theback of the neck, puncture wounds to
the chest and back, two ofwhich had pierced each lung by penetrating the
fourth intercostal muscle between the ribs.There were over thirty apparent knife wounds on
the victim's neck, chest, back, and legs. Most alarmingly, an

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X shaped wound had been carved intothe victim's chest and back, resembling the
Southern cross on the Confederate flag.After the Confederate flag became a symbol for
opposers of civil rights and segregation supporters, it became a symbol used by white
supremacists instead of the stainless banner itwas supposed to be the level of brutality

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in the murder made it clear thatthis was motivated by hate before the cross
was seen etched into the young blackman's skin. The stab wounds that pierced
the victim's lungs caused pneumothorax, whichis when the air inside the lung leaks
out into the cavity between the lungsand chest wall. This puncture would have
caused the lungs to fill with blood, causing the victim to drown or choke
on their own blood if he hadnot bled out from his other injuries fast.

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The police were having difficulty identifying thevictim, so they went door to
door in predominantly black areas with aphotograph of the man to see if anyone
recognized him. When they got toTelsa Coggin's house, she initially didn't recognize
the man, but her sister did. It was their brother, Timothy.
Timothy Coggins was the middle child ina family of eight. He was an

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outgoing, friendly young man who,despite the racial climate in Griffin, Georgia
during the early eighties, didn't careabout the color of a person's skin.
He would make friends with anyone.Known as Tim to those who knew him,
he was funny, caring, anda great dancer. Tim could often
be found in a local nightclub,the People's Choice, on the dance floor.

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Tim's sister went there too and sawthat in the time before he was
killed, he had been with awhite girl. She thought that Tim was
teaching her to dance. In thisarea, at this time, it was
unusual for a white person to frequentthe People's Choice, which had a predominantly
black customer base. A lot ofpeople wouldn't have felt comfortable dating or socializing

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with someone outside of their race,but Tim didn't seem to worry. On
October seventh, nineteen eighty three,Tim was making his way to the People's
Choice for a regular Friday night.He flagged down a guy he knew and
asked for a ride to the club. Jesse Gates grew up next door to
Tim's aunt and worked at the SpaldingCounty Sheriff's Department as a road deputy.

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He picked him up along Camp CreekRoad before midnight, and they spoke as
they drove to the club. Timtold Jesse that he was seeing a white
girl with brown hair and hazel blueeyes. Jesse told Tim that he needed
to be careful dating Caucasian girl.It was a lot more acceptable in Atlanta,
but not out in the small townsof Spaulding County. Tim told Jesse

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that he was old fashioned and borrowedfive dollars from him before getting out.
Near the club, the area wasbusy, not unusual for a Friday night,
but there were three white men standingoutside the People's Choice, which was
very unusual. Tim went in andwas dancing with the Brunetti told Jesse about
when his sister spotted him across thedance floor. She was on her way

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to the bathroom. Telessa was toldthat there was a white guy looking for
Tim, and she tried to getacross the floor to find out why,
but Tim had already left with theman. When she went outside, Tim
was gone. Two days later,his body was found near a mobile home
park and Sunnyside. Jesse Gates triedto help the Sheriff's department with the case

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and spoke with members of the blackcommunity and canvassed the mobile home park,
but he was told to leave italone. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation were
called in to assist the Sheriff's department, but they did not make much progress.
The Coggans family were devastated and afraidnot only had Tim been murdered,

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but they were being threatened and tauntedby someone. A brick was thrown through
the window with a note attach thatsaid, hush, you're next. On
another occasion, a bloodstained piece ofclothing was left on Tim's father's bus on
the driver's seat. Another time,the family found the body of a black
dog on their doorstep. Its throathad been cut and there was a note

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telling them they were next. Investigatorsand officers who were actively trying to get
answers on the murder were pulled offthe case for trivial matters such as vandalized
mailboxes. The family were never interviewedand began feeling that the police didn't care.
They felt that in the authority's eyes, Tim Coggins was just another dead
black man. By December nineteen eightythree, Timothy's murder case was closed,

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just two months after he was foundkilled. For over three decades, it
remained cold until June twenty sixteen,when Special Agent Gerald Coleman with the GBI
was assigned the case. A coalcase is a criminal investigation that, despite
exhausting all known investigative leads, remainsunsolved and is not actively investigated. A

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number of factors will hinder a reviewof a coal case. Some evidence will
be lost or degrade over time.The original records may be incomplete, The
case could have been mishandled. Thewitnesses may not remember much, or they
may have passed away. By reviewingthe records in Timothy Coggan's file, Agent
Coleman could see that it was anextremely violent crime scene and there was evidence

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that Tim had been dragged behind avehicle in a square shape. He was
also stabbed over thirty times. Itwas clear to Agent Coleman that the murder
was meant to send a message.When the GBI attempted to locate the physical
evidence that had been recovered, alot of it was missing. This can
happen when evidence is not stored effectivelyor passed from one person to another.

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Agent Coleman felt that the case wassolvable despite the lack of physical evidence.
Apart from Tim's jeans, underwear,the bloodstained rock, a cast taken of
the whole the rock had come from. There were also postmortem and crime scene
photographs and reports in the police archivesfrom the early eighties. A notebook was
found that contained entries from an officerwho was working undercover within the klu Klux

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Klan. The entries stated that theremay have been clan members within the Sheriff's
office and that he was unsure ofwho to trust. The case had been
looked at on different occasions when potentialleads arose, an Agent Coleman made a
list of people to interview. Whenhe reviewed the investigative summary of an interview
with a man named Christopher Vaughan intwo thousand and seven, he decided to

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speak with them about it. ChristopherVaughan was in the group that found Timothy
Coggan's body in nineteen eighty three.He was ten years old at the time,
and in twenty seventeen he was servinga long prison sentence for cholmellestation.
He had written to the GBI intwo thousand and seven saying that he had
information about a murder. Vaughn livednear the trailer park where Tim's body had

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been found, and he said thathe knew who killed him. Agent Coleman
interviewed Vaughan in April seventeen and wasinformed of two suspects, Frankie Gebhart and
Bill Moore. Frankie Gebbart lived inthe mobile home park in Sunnyside, and
his brother in law Bill was oftenwith him. They both had lengthy criminal
histories and were known for being unsavorycharacters. Frankie lived in the mobile home

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park a mile from where Tim's bodyhad been found, and was known for
having a violent temper and racist ideals, along with Captain Morris from the Spalding
County Sheriff's Office, Agent Coleman,spoke with Vaughan about what he knew.
He said that Frankie and Bill killedTim because he had been sleeping with Frankie's
ex girlfriend, Ruth Guy, whoalso went by the name Mickey. Ruth

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Guy matched the description of the whitewoman Tim had been seen with on a
number of occasions. Vaughan said thaton the night Tim went missing, he
was woken up by a loud partyin the mobile home park, and when
he looked outside, he saw FrankieGebhart, Bill Moore, Ruth Guy,
and a black man he didn't recognize, arguing before getting into a car and
driving off. Christopher Vaughan said thatin the years that followed, Gibbert would

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openly admit to killing Timothy. Hesaid that he stabbed him up to thirty
times. This fact was never releasedto the media. He also told Vaughan
that he and Bill had dragged Timothyalong the power lines where he was found.
Vaughn said that Gebart would use theN word instead of Timothy's name and
would threaten people by saying, I'llkill you like I did that N word.

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Christopher Vaughan also told the investigators thatFrankie had told him that a well
at his property had the murder weaponin it and closed from the victim,
evidence that had never been recovered.Over sixty people were interviewed, and it
turned out that Frankie Gebhart had openlyadmitted to killing Timothy Coggins on a number
of occasions. Willard Sanders had beendrinking with Gebart a few weeks after the

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murder. Mister Sanders had also beenin the group that found him body,
and when Frankie asked him if hehad been the one to find it and
was told yes, he said thathe and Bill had been the ones to
put him there. He told misterSanders that he had tied him up with
a logging chain and dragged him alongthe power lines, and Bill Moore had
stabbed him. Mister Sanders had toldthe deputy about Frankie's admission at the time,

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but he was never contacted again untilthe case was re examined thirty four
years later. Frankie Gerpart had beeninterviewed briefly in nineteen eighty three, but
as alibi was that he was withRuth Guy at the time, and she
supposedly corroborated this. Bill Moore wasmarried to Frankie's sister, and the mobile
home park manager came forward and toldinvestigators that Bill's wife had been drunk before

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and said that her husband and brotherhad killed a black man and dragged him
with their truck. At the time, Frankie Gerpart was in prison for a
sexual assault charge, and Christopher Vaughanwas asked to speak with him while wearing
a recording device. They moved themso that they shared a cell, and
on April twenty seven, twenty seventeen, Vaughn spoke Frankie about the investigators,
asking questions met a murder in nineteeneighty three. Frankie denied knowing anything about

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it, and Vaughan said that hejust told the investigators what he knew,
to which Frankie replied I sure hopeyou didn't, Frankie said, they have
to prove it. Words aren't worthshit. Agent Coleman and Captain Morris interviewed
Frankie shortly after. They asked himif he had been speaking with Christopher Vaughan,
and Frankie said he hadn't. Atfirst, the investigators made it seem

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as though they were looking into Vaughanas a suspect, and Frankie denied knowing
anything about the murder at all.He even denied knowing who rude Guy was.
Most of the responses he gave weredeflections or non answers like I don't
remember, or threats to sue thepolice force. He claimed that the police
were messing with him and wouldn't leavehim alone. At one point he became

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emotional and cried about being unable toread or write, but at another stage
he asked for a pen and paperto take down the names of people who
said he knew about the murder.When he was told that DNA and HERE
evidence had been found of the scene, he seemed surprised about it and asked
after thirty years. He was clearlyirritated by the end of the interview when
he showed it. I never seenthat n word. He said he was

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going to call his sister, sothe police began to monitor their jailhouse calls.
In May twenty seventeen, investigators wentto Frankie Keppart's residence with a search
warrant. They recovered sixty one knivesfrom his house and two knives from his
truck. A number of witnesses hadinformed the police about a well on the
property that Frankie had said he threwevidence in, but the well was inside

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an extension that had been added tothe back of the house and they could
not excavate it without damaging the structureof the property. In July twenty seventeen,
the Spalding County Sheriff of Daryl Dixtold the media that they were close
to arresting someone for the murder ofTimothy Couggins thirty four years earlier. He
said that new information given to theGBI shed light on the case and that

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they were close to solving the crime. In a Facebook post, he said,
I can say without a doubt thatif mister Coggins was murdered today in
two and seventeen, it would absolutelybe classified as a hate crime. Thirty
four years have passed since his horriblecrime was committed, and those who killed
him have believed that they would remainuntouched until literally just a few days ago.

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We understand that over the years,those suspected of being involved in the
murder of Timothy Coggins have threatened andintimidated potential witnesses. We believe that there
are people with pertinent information regarding thiscase that are still out there, and
we are asking them to come forward. The Coggins family had suffered another tragedy
in two thousand and one, whenTim's brother Eugene was found dead at the

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Spolding County Jail, just two hoursafter he had been arrested following a domestic
disturbance. Eugene had apparently been hallucinatingafter ingesting some drugs and was banging on
his grandmother's front door. It wasone thirty am, and someone called the
police. When officers arrived, theyattempted to restrain him while one officer lay
across his back. Another pepper sprayedhim in the face. At the county

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jail, another altercation led to Eugenebeing placed in an isolation cell, where
he was later found dead. InitiallyThe cause of death was unknown, but
a medical examiner found that Eugene hadbeen choked. A civil suit filed by
the family was settled in their favor, but they never knew what actually happened
to Eugene when he was in jail. When the police failed to properly investigate

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the murder of Timothy Coggins and wereimplicated in the death of his older brother,
the family found it hard to believethat they would ever get justice.
Reading through the case file, agentssaw that the GBI had spoken with a
man named Charles Carrey Junior in Maynineteen ninety one. Mister Carrey told them
that Frankie Geppart had been bragging aboutkilling a black man by dragging his body

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after tying a logging chain to hispants. When they spoke to an ex
girlfriend of Geparts, she told themthat in the early two thousand Frankie would
threaten to shrug her down the road, that he had dragged that in word,
and that she would end up likethat N word in the ditch.
They were granted a core order toobtain DNA from Geparting on October thirteenth,

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twenty and seventeen. Frankie gepart andBill Moore were arrested for the murder of
Timothy Coggins. A press conference washeld with the investigators, sheriff, and
Tim's family. We got some newswe would like to make an announcement of
We have a statement that we're goingto issue regarding the cold case murder of

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mister Timothy Coggins. On October ninth, nineteen eighty three, the body of
Timothy Coggins was found in a grassyarea adjacent to a high tension power line
on Manly Road in the Sunnyside areaof northern Spawling County. Coggins had been
brutally murdered in his body abandoned.Soon after the body was discovered, Spawning
Canny sheriffs offs investigators began interviewing theacquaintances, developing suspects, and gathering evidence

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in their search for Cogan's killer.After an exhaust exhaustive investigation, the case
went cold and until this date,has remained unsolved. In March of this
year, new evidence came to lightthat led investigators with the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation and the Spawning County Sheriff's Officeto re examine the case. Spawning County
investigators and GBI agents met with theCoggan's family on July twenty six, twenty

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seventeen, and briefed them as thenew leads and if state in contact with
family representatives since that day. Shortlyafter meeting with the Coggan's family, it
was decided to release information on thereopened case to the media in order to
generate new conversations witnesses and leagues.Original witnesses were contacted and reinterviewed. New

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information was received, and, thanksto the assistance of both local and state
news media coverage, previously unknown witnessesstepped forward. When interviewed, many of
the witnesses stated that they had beenliving with this information since Coggan's death,
but had been afraid to come forwardor had not spoken of it until now.
Each new lead was checked out andfollowed up. The attention to details

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slowed the pace of the investigation,but was necessary to ensure that the investigation
was successful and that no stone wasleft unturned. The ultimate goal was to
get the justice Timothy Coggins and hisfamily had waited for since nineteen eighty three,
based on the original evidence recovered innineteen eighty three and new evidence and
interviews. There is no doubt inthe minds of all investigators involved that the

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crime was racially motivated and that ifthe crime happened today, it would be
prosecuted as a hate crime. TodayOctober thirteenth, two seventeen, thirty four
years and four days after Timothy Coggins'sbody was discovered a bandon off a manly
road, a joint effort between thespot and County Sheriff's Office, Georgia Bureau
of Investigation, Griffin Judicial Circuit DistrictAttorney's Office has resulted in the arrest for

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the murder of Timothy Coggins and additionalarrest for other criminal acts discovered during the
course of this renewed investigation. Thismorning, investigators, agents and deputies made
those arrests and executed search warrants,seizing evan and documents related to these crimes.
This investigation is not over. Ithas entered a new phase leading up

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to the prosecution of those people responsiblefor this heinous crime and those that obstructed
or hindered this investigation. Arrested forthe murder of Timothy Coggins, where Frankie
Gibhart, white male, aged fiftynine. He's charged with murder, felony,
murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and concealing the death of another.
Also arrested was Bill Moore, senior, white male, fifty eight years

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of age, who was arrested formurder, felony, murder, aggravated assault,
aggravated battery, and concealing the deathof another. A white female,
Sandra Bunn, was arrested fifty eightyears of age and charged with obstruction.
Lamar Bunn, white male age unknownat this time, was also arrested for
obstruction, and Gregory Huffman, whitemale, age forty seven, was arrested

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for violation of oath of office andobstruction to law enforcement officers. There will
be other arrests and charges coming forwardas we go further into this, but
the focus that we want to haveto day is the fact that this is
about Timothy Cargans, and it's aboutCargan's family, and it's about getting justice
for him and bringing those of murderhim to justice. And that's what we

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intend to do. We are goingto do everything we can to fight for
this family and make sure that theyget the justice that they deserve. There
had also been others arrested in relationto the crime. Sandra Bunn, Gepart's
sister was arrested after the police monitoredtheir calls and she advised him not to
accept drinks from the police in casethey got his DNA. Her son,

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Lamar Bunn, who worked with themill in the police department, was charged
with obstruction, as was his mother. They were accused of feeding Gapart information
that hindered the investigation. Gregory Hoffman, a detention officer with the Spalding County
Sheriff's Office, was charged with obstructionand violating his oath of office after being
accused of alerting Gepart about the investigation. He allegedly revealed the identity of a

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confidential informant. On November two,a bond hearing was held for those arrested.
D A. Ben Coker said thatTim Coggins had been killed for socializing
with a white female and it wasonly thanks to tips in the last year
that the case had been broken open. Spolding County Judge Fletcher Sam's denied bond
for Frankie Geppart and Bill Moore,citing that it would be inappropriate. Huffman,

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Sandra Bunn, and Lamar bun werereleased on bail. At the hearing,
Tim Coggins family heard the details ofhis violent death for the first time.
A grand jury were due to convenethe following month. A probable cause
hearing was held on November thirtieth.Here it was revealed that witnesses had seen
Tim speaking with Frankie and Bill outsideof a gas station across the street from

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the People's Choice Club, and thenthey got into Frankie's gold car. Some
witnesses said that Tim was killed becausethe woman he was seeing was Geppart's ex.
Others said it was over a drugdeal that went bad. Either way,
race was a factor because Frankie hadspoken about the good old days when
he could kill a black man forno reason. Apparently, Bill and Frankie

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were at odds over the years aboutwho was responsible and had bragging rights for
the murder. Bill had said hewould kill Frankie if he kept running his
mouth, while Frankie had said Billjust put the chain on Tim. Prosecutor
Marie Broder said that they wore themurder as a badge of honor. The
family spoke of how hard it washearing that the defendants had no remorse and

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how many times they admitted it toeach other, but there was still no
justice. Over three decades later,on December fifth, twenty seventeen, as
Bolding County Grand Jury formally charged FrankieGebhart and Bill Moore with felony murder,
malice, murder, aggravated assault,aggravated battery, and concealing the death of

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another. Once charges were filed,the prosecutor's office decided to try and get
more evidence for their case against FrankieGebbart, so they tried to find a
method to extract whatever was in thesealed well of Gebpart's property. Two months
before the trial began, they decidedto try a technique called hydrovac Liz Pump's

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highly pressured water into the well whilea vacuum removed any items that were in
it. They knew that this woulddegrade any evidence, but they had no
alternative and it had already been inthe well for decades before the trial.
The DA's office and the GBI appliedfor a search warrant for the search of
alleged evidence contained within the well onGebpart's property, which had been encased and

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in tomb for approximately thirty four yearsand no prior known excavation efforts had been
conducted. They were granted the warrantto search for biological evidence, including but
not limited to DNA, knives,chains, photographic evidence, and any other
items of evidentiary value. The wellhad been sealed with concrete, and in

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order to diget out they would haveneeded more space, but the property was
built beside it, so they usethe hydrovack process to take any items out.
Among the burnt trash and materials thatwere removed, there was also a
T shirt, a shoe, socks, a broken knife and handle, and
the logging chain. The items werenot suitable for DNA analysis, but the

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T shirt had holes in it thatwere consistent with Tim's injuries, and the
shoe and socks looked like the itemshe was known to wear. Tim's family
had not placed a headstone at hisgrave out of fear the killers would vandalize
it. On January second, twentyeighteen, they felt it was time.
A service was held at a Methodistchurch in Sebulon, Georgia. Tim's brother

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Tyrone told the media that there hadbeen dark clouds over the family and they
could finally see that the sun willshine again. The attendees wore purple ribbons
and T shirts, Tim's favorite color. The T shirts red at last.
Tyrone told the media that Tim hadalways wanted to make sure everyone got safely,

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and now they felt like Tim hadmade it home. The trial for
Frankie Gabbart began on June twenty first, twenty eighteen. The prosecution's opening statements
began with Chief Assistant District Attorney MarieBroder telling the court sometimes these crime scenes
whisper about what happened. Sometimes thecrime scene screams. You will hear a

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crime scene scream of what happened toTimothy Coggins back in October nineteen eighty three,
listened to it. Attorney Broder alsotold the jury that there were issues
with the case. The investigation wasn'tconducted as it would have been today,
and a lot of the evidence thathad been collected had disappeared in the last
three decades. But she said thatthe evidence that they did have and the
witness testimony pointed to Frankie Gaippart.He had bragged about the murder for years,

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never referring to Timothy by name,but dehumanizing him by only referring to
him as a racial slur. Theprosecutors said it was a crime fueled by
rage and anger, and still heldthat rage against African Americans in his heart.
Gepard's defense attorney Scott Johnson said thatthe prosecution wanted the jury to reach
a verdict based on their emotions ratherthan the evidence. Attorney Johnson blasted the

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lack of evidence and said it couldprove his client's innocence. Outside the presence
of the jury, Judge Fletcher Sam'scalled Brandy Abercrombie and into the courtroom.
Brandy as Bilmore's daughter, the otherman accused of killing Timothy Couggins. She
was due to be sequestered as awitness, but a bailiff saw her watching
the live stream of the trial inthe hallway. The judge said that she

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was not supposed to know what wasgoing on inside the courtroom and found her
in contempt of court. She wasimmediately sentenced to twenty days in county jail.
Sequestered witnesses are not allowed to knowwhat is happening before they testify,
so that their testimony is unaffected byanything that is said before them in the
trial. The first witness called wasWarren Tillman, the g I medical examiner.

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In the eighties, a medical examinerdid not have to be a qualified
doctor to perform an autopsy. MisterTillman was not a qualified doctor, but
he had performed many post mortems.Timothy's remains had been brought to Spalding County
Hospital. He was wearing blue jeansand underwear. Judging by the insect activity,
mister Tillman was able to determine thathe had been dead for two days.

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On the stand, he differentiated thedifferent types of cuts that had been
seen. A laceration is the tearingof skin. A cut or a slice
is an insized wound. A puncturewound is a stab wound that penetrates the
skin, and an abrasion is hemorrhagingbeneath the skin. Timothy Coggins was covered
in abrasions across his entire body.He had eight lacerations on his head and

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a puncture wound on the back ofhis neck. On his chest and torso,
he had a puncture wound that piercedthrough his fourth intracostal muscle between the
ribs and punctured his alone, causinga numer thorax as lung. He had
a linear incised wound on his torsothat was an X shape. He had
seven knife wounds on his back,including another puncture wound that pierced his other

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lung. There were slash wounds andanother incised wound that was in an X
shape. The wounds indicated that theweapon used was a single edged blade,
not a double or serrated blade.The medical examiner noted at least thirty injuries
in total, enlisted the cause ofdeath as being due to multiple stab wounds
to the chest. He said thatit may have taken over fifteen minutes for

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Timothy to sucumb to his injuries fromeither bleeding out or drowning on his own
blood from his punctured lungs. JesseGates testified next Jesse had dropped him to
the club that night and warned himabout dating a white woman. Jesse was
working at Spalding County Sheriff's Department asa road deputy at the time, and
also testified about the racial climate andKKK activity in the area. After Tim's

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murder, jesse Gates tried to helpwith the investigation and canvass them up while
home park next to where Tim hadbeen found. He also spoke with members
of the back community and passed onany information to the investigators. He was
told to stop looking at the caseduring the original investigation when the GBI got
involved, but the case was closedwithin two months. To Lisa Coggins,

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testified, Tim's younger sister, saidthat there were two years between the siblings,
who came from a family of eightchildren. She said that her brother
was loving, caring, funny,and love to dance. To Leisa said
Tim would make friends with anyone.He was outgoing and didn't care about race.
She would hang out with the People'sChoice Club too, and she saw

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Tim dancing with a white girl withlong brown hair on a number of occasions.
She didn't know if they were seeingeach other or if Tim was teaching
the girl how to dance. Shedidn't feel comfortable with it, as she
knew it could draw the wrong kindof attention on her brother. She was
at the club on October seven,nineteen eighty three. Someone had told her
a white man was looking for Timwhile she was on her way to the

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bathroom, but by the time shegot out side, Tim was gone.
She spoke about how the police calledto the house with an autopsy photograph a
few days later, and at firstshe didn't recognize her brother because he was
so badly injured. Following the murder, her family were scared and tormented.
Bricks were thrown through the window,a dead dog was left on the porch,

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but they were never interviewed by thepolice. They felt as though the
police thought to him was just anotherdead black man. Linda Cook took the
stand. She went by Linda Morganat the time of the murder and she
knew Tim. She was hosting anafter party on October seventh, nineteen eighty
three, and said Tim showed upwith three white men. Miss Cook said
that Tim was really drunk and shetold him that the men couldn't come in.

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Tim then told her that they weregoing to Sunnyside. Continuing the first
day of witness testimony, Samuel Freemantook the stand. He testified that Tim
had called him that night and saidhe was with Frankie. Mister Freeman said
that he was worried for him,as though was prejudice back then and Tim
was a black man. Robert EugeneSmith testified next he had met Frankie and

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Bill when they were working for hisdad and was friends with Bill's brother.
He would attend parties and sunnyside.He said that Bill and Frankie always caused
trouble at the parties, and herecalled how they even butcher the baby cow
and the trailer before. Another time, he remembered Tim Coggins running from one
of their parties and asking to hidein the trailer where they were. Frankie

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and Bill came running after him,shouting where did that little N word go?
After Tim's murder, Frankie Gabbert wasspeaking about not liking interracial relationships,
and he indicated that he had draggedand gooded Tim for messing with a white
girl. In twenty sixteen, Robertmet up with Frankie in Robert's house.
They were drinking and Frankie was reminiscingabout how back in the day that one

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never got to tell about the timehe was with a white girl. Robert
was one of many witnesses who hadcome to the court from prison. He
had been convicted for possession. Thefinal witness was Christopher Vaughan. Vaughan had
been the first and forem in thecase. He was ten years old at
the time of Tim's murder and livedbeside the trailer park in Sunnyside on the

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corner of Minto Road. He saidhe saw Frankie Gapart, Billmore, Ruth
Guy, and a black man arguinglate at night before getting into a car
and heading down into road. Vaunwas in the hunting party that discovered Tim's
body. A few months later,when he was at a party, he
overheard Frankie say that he and BillMoore had killed the man they found at
the power lines. Vaughn said thathe heard Frankie talk about it a number

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of times. Frankie said that hehad stabbed him eighteen to thirty times before
dragging him up and down the powerlines and stabbing him again. He said
that it was because Tim had beensleeping with Ruth Guy. Vaughn said that
Frankie also used it as a threatand in arguments he said, I'll kill
you like I did that inward.Vaughn had reached out to investigators on a

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few occasions beginning in two thousand andfour, and when the GBI reopened it,
he told them all that he knew. Vaughn was also one of many
witnesses that testified he had been toldthe murder weapon was inside a well on
Gepard's property. Upon cross examination,the defense tried to make it seem as
though Vaughn was testifying to try andget a reduction on his prison sentence.

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began with crime scene analyst Larry Piece. Mister Peterson had thirty years of experience
working with the State Crime Lab andGBI. He had been called to the
crime scene on October ninth, nineteeneighty three, and collected evidence, tire
impressions, and photographed the scene.Most of the evidence collected was gone by
the time of the trial. AgentRobertson had been the primary officer at the

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scene and mister Peterson compared their crimescene diagrams and notes. A number of
cartridges had been found on the road, but were ruled as being unrelated because
Timothy had not been shot. Therewere blood stains in two different locations,
indicating two areas where there had beena struggle. There were drag marks on

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the ground from those areas to whereTim's body had been found. There was
also a rock with a blood stainon it, and it had come from
a hole fifty foot away. It'sthought that the rock was dislodged as Tim
was being dragged behind the vehicle,and that's possible cause of the lacerations found
on his head and body. Therock was presented at the trial, along

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with the casting that had been madeof the whole had come from. Tim
was discovered lying on his side,soiled with mud and blood, and there
was evidence of decomposition. Tim's trouserswere low, probably from being dragged.
Fibers that looked as though they werefrom his blue jeans were found along the
road. Analysts from the GBI crimeLab testified about the DNA analysis process carried

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out on any of the evidence thatwas recovered in the new investigation. The
items that had been taken from thewell were too degraded for testing. Willard
Sanders knew Frankie care Part since hewas a child. He'd been in the
hunting party that discovered Tim's body.He testified that he'd been at Frankie's house
two weeks after Tim's body was found, and Frankie told him that he'd put

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the body there. After he tiedhim up with a logging chain and dragged
him along the power line. MissusSanders said that Frankie told him Bill had
stabbed Timothy. Missus Sanders told anofficer he knew about what Frankie had said,
but no one ever contacted him afteruntil the case was re examined in
two and seventeen. Terry re testBy the next he was in prison for

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violating the terms of his parole,and he worked as an orderly with Frankie
Geppart. When the news stations playedfootage of the police searching Frankie's home,
Frankie told mister Reid that they wouldn'tfind anything with DNA on it because he'd
thrown everything in the well. Healso told mister Reid that they had taken
sixty one niyes from his house,a fact that was not released from the

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media at the time. He contactedhis sisters and asked them to tell the
GBI about what Gebhart had said.After Terry Reid told the GBI, he
was suddenly removed from being a trusteein the prison and He told the agents
that he thought the guards were passingon information. Jonathan Bennett knew Frankie as
a friend of his mother's. Hetestified that Frankie had said that he and

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Billmore had killed someone by stabbing inthe thirty eight times and dragging them down
the road. Mister Bennett was servingtime in prison for terroristic threats and had
not been offered anything in exchange forhis testimony. Patrick Douglas was a known
member of the Arian Brotherhood, awhite supremacist group. He was in prison
with Frankie Geppart in two and seventeenand worked as a trustee, carrying out

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duties such as cleaning and being abarber. He met Frankie when he was
cutting his hair. Douglas believed Frankiespoke to him because he was easy identifiable
from his white supremacist tattoos, andFrankie told him that he was a member
of the klu klux Klan. Frankiewas irate about the Sheriff's department. He
said that it was unfair that thesheriff could get away with killing an N

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word, but he couldn't. Hetold Douglas about the Jack Daniel's bottle that
was found at the crime scene,something that had not been reported in the
media. He also said he'd rescueda white woman from a black man before
GBI. Investigators then testified about thesearch warrants executed at Gippart's home. They
said that they recovered a white shoethat was the same size as Timothy's foot,

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two socks, a logging chain,a broken knife, a knife handle,
and a white T shirt. Audiofrom the jailhouse recording of Christopher Vaughan
and Frankie Gappart was played to thecourts. Vaughan had been moved to share
a sale with Frankie, and whenVaughn said that he told the investigators what
he knew, Frankie replied, Isure hope you didn't. He also said

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they didn't care what evidence they had, they had to prove it, and
that words aren't worth a shit.The third day of trial consisted of the
taped interviews Captain Mike Morris and agentColeman had with Frankie Gappart. In it,
they asked him if he had beenspeaking to Christopher Vaughan, and Frankie
denied that he had been. Theinvestigators made it seem as though they were

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investigating Vaughan. Captain Morris testified thatFrankie gave mostly non answers or deflected by
saying things like I don't remember,or he would sue the Sheriff's department.
Frankie claimed that the police were messingwith him and would not leave him alone.
During the interview, the investigators mentionedDNA evidence, and Frankie seemed surprised

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even asking after thirty years. Hekept changing the subject and began crying about
being unable to read or write,but he later asked for a pen and
paper to write down the names ofpeople who'd said he did it. He
denied knowing about the murder or evenknowing Ruth Guy, despite her being his
alibi for that night. He alsospoke about calling his sister, which is

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why the police began monitoring their calls. The fourth day of testimony began with
Charlie Sturgill. He'd been seventeen atthe time and lived in Sunnyside. He
testified that a lot of people wereafraid of Frankie. He recalled one night
at a party, Frankie came upand was too drunk to drive home,
so Charlie drove. He was pulledover and arrested, and Frankie's car got

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impounded. The next day, Frankietold him that if he didn't get his
car up by six pm that evening, the same thing that happened to the
N word would happen to him andhis mama. Another time, a group
including Frankie and Charlie were going tothe liquor store. There was an argument
in the car and Charlie got out. Gippart commented, that's the most blood
I've seen since I stabbed that inword twenty five times and cut him open.

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Charlie said that Frankie even threatened toblack deputy who came to the trailer
part, telling him that if hecame over, he would do what he
did to the other in word.After Charlie moved to a predominantly black neighborhood,
Frankie visited him and remarks how hefelt about black people and what he'd
done on the dirt road. CharlieSergil would put himself at risk by testifying

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he was incarcerated in another state,but said he wanted to tell the truth.
He didn't know that it was anactive case who hadn't come forward before
Special Agent Jared Coleman with the GBItestified at the end of the fourth day
he was assigned the unsolved case inJune twenty sixteen. He spoke about the
difficulties with cold cases, being thatsome witnesses may have died, some may

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not recall information, and evidence mayhave been lost. He said that he
felt the investigation was incomplete, nothingbeen done in the original investigation after October
twenty fifth, nineteen eighty three,just two weeks after Timothy was killed.
He said that Gepart had been mentionedin the case file, but seemed to
have an alibi. Ruth Guy haddied a number of years earlier, so

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they were unable to speak with her. Agent Coleman said that the crime scene
review showed that Timothy was dragged ina square shape and that it was extremely
violent scene. This usually indicated thatthe killer had some level of connection or
hatred for the victim. Because ofthe level of violence, Agent Coleman felt
that the killing was done to senda message. The media coverage at the

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time in nineteen eighty three was extremelysparse. There were less than a handful
of articles, and there had beenno mention of Timothy being dragged behind a
car, the number of times he'dbeen stabbed, or that he had an
ex carved into his chest. AgentColeman said that they could not recover a
lot of the evidence from the originalinvestigation, but he still felt as though

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it could be solved. Most coldcases are solved by new witness testimony as
opposed to physical evidence. Agent Colemanknew that Tim's t shirts, shoes,
and socks had not been recovered fromthe scene, so those were items that
they thought they might find in thewell, and they did. They interviewed
over one hundred people in relation tothe case. The state then rested their

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case. When the state rested theircase, Frankie Gerbert did not wish to
testify. The defense called Daniel Greento testify. Mister Green previously worked with
the GBI and had been assigned tothe case. At one point. He
had interviewed Jesse Gates, who workedfor the Sheriff's Department and knew Tim Coggins.

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He did not recall jesse Gates mentioningseeing white men standing outside the club
on the night he dropped him off. Mister Green also interviewed Samuel Freeman,
who said that Tim had called himon the Friday night to say he was
with Frankie. Mister Green said hedid not place that information in his summary.
This was the hen's attempt at paintingthe witnesses as not credible. On

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cross examination by the state, misterGreen admitted that the GBI weren't privy to
some of the information the Sheriff's Departmenthad, and that he had limited involvement
aside from speaking with Jesse Gates andSamuel Freeman on one occasion. The second
and last witness for the defense wasthe agent who examined the case in two
thousand and eight. He testified thathe had spoken to Christopher Vaughan and said

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that Vaughn did not mention things hementioned in later interviews. Following this,
the prosecution delivered their closing statements.Spalding County District Attorney Ben Koker told the
jury that the indictment lists all ofthe elements that the state must prove,
and that the burden of proof laywith the state. He reminded the jury
that beyond reasonable doubt is not beyondthe reasonable probability. It is just what

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someone would conclude as likely using commonsense. DA Cookers said that the witnesses
that testified were considered direct evidence andthe jury could infer from that alone that
Frankie was guilty. He made thecomparison that circumstantial evidence is the inferred conclusion
from something, and direct evidence isactually seeing something like going out in the

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rain would be direct evidence that itwas raining, and seeing someone come in
wet with an umbrella would infer thatit was raining. Like circumstantial evidence.
DA Cooker said the circumstantial evidence wasthe items recovered from the well. He
explained the charges malice murder and felonymurder being that Frankie Gebhart inflicted the injuries

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that led to Timothy Coggin's death,aggravated assault because he stabbed him thirty times,
aggravated battery because he had sliced theX into Tim's back, and torso
concealing a death because he did notreport the death and delayed people finding tim
The DA said that the inconsistencies andwitness testimony could be explained by time that

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had passed, but all of themsaid that Frankie Gebbert was a racist who
admitted to killing Timothy Coggins. Hereminded the jury that they did not have
to like the witnesses, many ofwhom serving time in prison, but they
could believe them. The defense deliveredtheir closing statement and said that the state
could not prove beyond a reasonable doubtthat Frankie Gebbart killed Timothy Coggins. Frankie's

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attorney said that the state did nothandle the case well enough and they were
full of apologies, and he believedFrankie Gebhart was being used to make up
for their poor investigation. Attorney Leesaid that the witnesses lied in the hopes
of getting a deal from the DA'soffice for lesser time in prison, and
that they had gotten their information fromnews reports. He said that Frankie Gebbart
was being used by the state toatone for mistakes of the past. During

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the prosecution's rebuttal, DA Cookers saidthat they can atone for the mistakes of
the past by riding the wrongs,and that the case should have been in
court thirty four years earlier. Hesaid that a murder investigation being closed after
two weeks was unheard of, andthe investigators had not followed up or shared
information. They had lost evidence,and had taken officers off the case to

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investigate torn down letter by da Cockersaid that the statement had been that tim
was just another dead black man untilit was opened by the GBI in Sheriff's
office. He said that Frankie Gebharthad told people he had killed Timothy Coggins.
He told people he put evidence downthe well. Witnesses relayed information only
the killer would know. Timothy wasmissing his T shirt, shoes, and

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socks, items that had been founddown a well on Gibbart's property following information
from witnesses. DA Cocker told thejury they can believe Christopher Vaughan despite his
conviction, because everything he said wasin the well was found there. When
Gipart told Vaughan in the recording thatwords aren't weren't shit, the testimony was
worth it. His evidence. Hisstatements were corroborated by physical evidence that was

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found. DA Cocker said that thecrime scene screamed anger, hatred, and
eva. He said that Gibbart admittedto killing tim on at least seventeen different
occasions. He said that Gibpart worethe crime as a badge of honor when
it was a badge of hate.The prosecutors said that there was no other
explanation for the knife and chain tobe down the well, other than to

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hide them. They had found sixtyone knives in Gabbart's house, many of
them were rusted or broken, butthey hadn't been thrown out. Only one
knife had been disposed of in thewell, and you don't use a logging
chain to pull water up from awell. He finished his statement by saying,
Frankie Gapart had said words weren't worthshit, but it was his own

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words that I condemned him. Aftersix hours of deliberations, the jury returned
would a verdict. They found FrankieGepart guilty of malice murder, felony murder,
aggravated assault, aggravated battery, andconcealing the death of another. Heather
Coggins, Timothy's nieces, delivered avictim impact statement on behalf of the family.

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She thanked Da Benjamin Coker and MarieBroder for their work as prosecutors on
the case, and acknowledged that thetrial had not only been taxing to the
Coggan's family, but to the Gabhartstoo. She was grateful that after thirty
four years, they could go toTim's grave and tell him that he could
rest in peace. Please state yourname for the record time. Heather Coggins,

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what would you like to share withme at this time? On behalf
of the Coggins family, we wouldlike to say thank you to you,
Judge SAMs, to the DA,mister Ben Coker, as well as Marie
Brother to the GBI, as wellas the Shaff's department. So everyone who
works tirelessly to come up to whatwe are today. And I would personally

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want to thank each juror for itdedicating your time and you're dedicating your time
to look at what was covered andcome up with the best solution as possible.
I want to say that this hasbeen taxing not only to the Coggins
family, but to have her familyas well. And we understand that this

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has been tiresome and taxing to everyone, but we are completely grateful to be
here today. It has been thirtyfour years for us could be here and
we are fallently here and now wecan go back to team's great as as
my grandmother's great and we can sayhey, can you ask can now wrestling
peace? So for that j Sales, we are It's currently grateful. It's

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terribly grateful, So I'll just we'llhave to say thank you, thank you
so much. In thirty five years. It's too long, but we're we're
thankful to God that we are heretoday. Thank you, thank you.
The judge immediately moved to sentencing.The prosecution said that Frankie's history of two
prior aggravated assault convictions for knife crimesshould be aggravating factors. The defense offered

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no mitigating factors. Judge Fletcher Sam'smerged family murder with malice, murder and
aggravated battery with the murder charges.Concealment of a homicide carries a maximum sentence
of ten years. Frankie Gabhart wassentenced to life in prison plus thirty years
to be served. Concurrently, JudgeSam's told him, hopefully, sir,

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you have stabbed your last victim.Outside the courtroom, the Coggans family spoke
with the media about their relief atthe verdict and how they felt that Tim's
parents could finally rest in peace.Tim's mother had said shortly before her death
that she knew the police were goingto find his killers soon and that she
wouldn't be there to see it.Justice was finally being served in a rare

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outpouring of love from the members ofthe victim's family to the family of their
loved one's killer. The members ofthe Coggans family embraced Frankie Gippart's daughter as
she cried outside the court. Theyunderstood that she had now lost her father
and that the man she knew wasdifferent from the Frankie Geipart who was so
full of hate that he murdered ayoung black man for no reason. Bill

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Moore was due to stand trial inAugust of that year. He pleaded guilty
to voluntary manslaughter and concealing the deathof another in early August. The plea
hearing was held in private, buthow Their Coggins later told CNN that she
spoke to Billmore and told him thatthey forgive him and that they hoped he
was forgiven. She also told himthat she hoped he spent the rest of

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his natural life behind bars. Therewas no physical evidence linking Billmore to the
crime, or as many witnesses totestify that he had admitted to it,
like there had been in Frankie Gebhart'strial, so the family and the state
were happy to accept the plea deal. The family even supported Bill Moore's plea
to serve probation for the concealment charges. Instead of ten years in prison,

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he was sentenced to twenty years inprison and ten years of probation. He
was also forbidden from returning to SpaldingCounty or the nearby counties in Georgia if
he has ever released. Timothy Cogginshas still loved and missed almost thirty seven
years after he was brutally killed.He left high school and worked with his
stepfather, who instilled a hard workmetality into the children. He adored his

(55:46):
mother, who loved taking care ofsuch a big family. His sisters said
he always looked out for them,and he brought joy to the people he
met with his joyful laugh and pearlywhite smile. Timothy Coggins would dance anywhere
and anyone. He did not deserveto be killed because of the color of
his skin. This case is nota century old case. The barbaric practice

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of lynching and hate crimes continue inthe shadows. It doesn't always look like
Timothy Coggan's case, or James ByrdJr. Or the nineteen forty six More's
forward lynching. It can look likea black man, woman, or child
being killed by someone who believes theirlife is less important because they are black.
It isn't always committed by mobs,but it shouldn't take crowds or decades

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