On May 7, 1971, Jack Slaughter, a 21-year-old African American male, was found dead alongside his 23-year-old brother, Frank Slaughter, and another man named Arthur Lee Walson, also 21, in East St. Louis, Illinois. The victims had been shot and stabbed, and their deaths remained unsolved for nearly a decade. The case resurfaced in 1980 when Andre Jones, an African American male born in 1956, confessed to the triple homicide. Jones claimed he killed the three men for failing to pay him money for
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