The Killers’ Later Lives
If there were any justice in the world, you couldn’t admit to brutally murdering a child on the front pages and then just go about your life, and there might just be. Boycotts forced Roy Bryant to close his store and take up welding, which eventually left him blind. He and Carolyn divorced, and he served prison time for food stamp fraud. Milam was kicked off his farm, and when he finally wormed his way into a loan, he couldn’t get any black workers and went broke paying more expensive white laborers. His house was later turned into a black church, which seems satisfying but also dangerous. The only thing worse than ghosts is racist ghosts.
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