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Charles Mumford

Case from Madison, WI dated Apr 15, 1969

Victim Details

Charles Mumford

Male

Black / African American

Madison

WI

1969-04-15

35

Charles

Mumford

09/24/2026

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Charles Mumford, a 35-year-old Black man, died in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 15, 1969. More than half a century later, the circumstances surrounding his death are unusually difficult to reconstruct from independently accessible online records. Wisconsin's statewide death index covers the period in which Mumford died, while digitized archives also preserve 1969 editions of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times.

Those surviving newspaper collections show that contemporar ...
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