Crime Scene Evidence Files

Solving murders in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi since 1995. Examine the evidence and solve the case.

We found letters from some Southern Civil War soldiers

The Kudzu Kids found a letter from Southern soldier John Lucas Beauchamp III in the university library

CSA soldier Beauchamp letter

The Kudzu Kids found a letter from Southern soldier Cleveland Jackson in the university library

CSA soldier Jackson letter

The Kudzu Kids found a letter from Southern soldier I.T. Stark in the university library

CSA soldier Stark letter

Kudzu Kids Investigation Day 5 — After we found out how the Y Building was used during the Civil War, we spent a whole afternoon in the Ole Miss library looking through the stuff in the Civil War special collections room.

We came across some letters written by Southern soldiers who were in Oxford in 1862.

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We talked to the janitor cleaning Professor Lowry's office

Kudzu Kids video — janitor

Janitor interview

Kudzu Kids Investigation Day 4 — While Zach was looking through Dr. Lowry's trash after the professor kicked us out of his office, we talked to the janitor who came by to clean to see if he'd seen anything suspicious.

 

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My grandfather talked to the UPD chief for us

My grandfather provides some help with our investigation

Gramps emails info

Kudzu Kids Investigation Day 4 — I asked asked my grandfather, a retired police officer and private investigator, to help us get some information for our investigation.

He talked to the UPD chief for us and found out what the chief thinks about the bone we found.

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We tried to talk to Professor Lowry

Kudzu Kids audio — Professor Lowry

Professor Lowry interview

Kudzu Kid Zach looked through Professor Lowry's trash after he left

Professor Lowry's trash

The Kudzu Kids found a rejection letter from a publisher in Professor Lowry's trash

Rejection letter

The Kudzu Kids found a memo to the history department chair in Professor Lowry's trash

Request for security

Kudzu Kids Investigation Day 4 — So after Professor Lowry got so mad, we wanted to know why.

We tried to ask Dr. Lowry why he was so interested in the bone, but he kicked us out of his office.

So we just waited until he left, and then Zach looked through the trash in his office and found some interesting stuff.

 

 

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Professor Lowry got really mad

Hunter recorded a phone call his dad had with Professor Lowry

Professor's angry phone call

Ole Miss professor's conference proposal rejected again

Controversial conference idea rejected again

Dr. Lowry is a popular, if controversial, history professor at Ole Miss

Charles Lowry biography
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Kudzu Kids Investigation Day 3 — So there's this professor named Charles Lowry who's a Civil War history teacher at the university, where my dad teaches anthropology.

After we found the bone, Dr. Lowry got really interested. He called my dad and was pretty mad because he said we were "messing around his work site."

Whatever. We were just looking around.

 

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