1 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: You may remember seeing something about the death of Donye 2 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: Jones on your social media feed Around the end of 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: well the Ferguson, Missouri activists found her son hanging from 4 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: a tree and police are ruling it a suicide, but 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: the mother believes it was a lynching. Now she is 6 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: calling for an investigation after she says police failed to 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: do their job. He was not suicidal. I'm rain over Shelski. 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: Starting only six weeks after don Ye was found hanged 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: by a bedsheet, my colleague John Duffy and I spent 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: two and a half years working with Donye's mother, Melissa, 11 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: with many members of his family, his friends, and even 12 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: members of the Ferguson activist community to follow the trail 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: and find out what exactly happened to him. Wasn't that 14 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: type of person. I didn't expect to never see him again, 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: and he had a very bright energy. The whole situation, 16 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: that's a bunch that I don't know. Finding him in 17 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: the backyard hung up, I will say, telling yourself, what 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: would have cheat in a chair? That's that's what people 19 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: do in jail, bro, when they when they know they're 20 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: about the faith life. You know what I'm saying my boyfriend, 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: no guy has followed out, no one has gotten his 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: phone open. Yet, not only did we find apparent holes 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: in the investigation into Danyae's death, but also it appears 24 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: to be racism in local law enforcement. I do remember 25 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: the lead detective in the case, and I remember him 26 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: because he had the black eye. He was laughing what 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: would need to do to work on during an interview 28 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: with the officer and or as a reasonable the person, 29 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: would you think that the officer Andrew would be interested 30 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: in this? After everything we've seen, it looks as though 31 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: the possibility that Danya was murdered was never taken seriously 32 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: by St. Louis County official. She said, we're going to 33 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: destroy the sheets, and I said, why are you going 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: to destroy the sheets? That's part of the evidence. We're 35 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: going to have a private investigation. The bit that was 36 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: used was was sent down to our lab and they 37 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: did DNA on it, secondary DNA at all on the 38 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: There is another one if a water proponent. When we 39 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: have suicide, there is a certain amount of investigations, but 40 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: it is not much more than this from Double Asterisk. 41 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: Now this and I Heart Radio comes an unforgettable new 42 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: investigative podcast series After the Uprising. Listen to the first 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: episode on June and new episodes weekly after that. Subscribe 44 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: today on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or 45 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: wherever you find your podcasts. See everybody else wants to 46 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: make it seem like it's one thing. My main thing 47 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 1: is who the hell kill my son. I don't care. 48 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: If it was police, I don't care. If it was 49 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: President Obama, I don't care. I need to find out 50 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: who killed my son.