Wasn't too familiar with this story but quite a fascinating retelling and unearthing of this event in the paper yesterday. History and Details of Claude Neal Lynching in Florida | Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg Times
Seems like the fact that the cause of death didn't match the "confession" is often overlooked or downplayed. Neal said he/his accomplice hit the girl over the head with a tree limb. Yet she was strangled so bad her eyes were bulging out of their sockets...
