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Louis Till (died July 2, 1945) was the father of Emmett Louis Till, who was murdered when he was 14 in Mississippi. Louis Till was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943. While in Italy, he was convicted of raping two women and murdering a third, and executed by the Army by hanging near Pisa on July 2, 1945. He is buried in Plot E of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery. A fellow captive of Ezra Pound (imprisoned for his fascist radio broadcasts in support of the Axis powers), Till is mentioned in lines 171-173 of Canto 74 of the Pisan Cantos:
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Ted Bundy vs Louis Till, 
