Atlanta (CNN) — 3 years ago at the Fulton County D.A.’s Office, a prosecutor stood over a table, cataloguing items in evidence bags.
The items were turned in by Jacque Hollander, a woman who said she could prove that James Brown aka the Godfather of Soul was murdered at an Atlanta hospital in 2006. More than a dozen people who knew Brown have called for an autopsy or a criminal investigation.
“He was murdered,” Brown’s manager, Frank Copsidas, said in a 2022 interview. “Somebody wanted him dead.”
In 2021 a deputy district attorney determined there was “an insufficient basis for the initiation of a Grand Jury investigation.”
Soon afterwards, the items in the evidence bags at the prosecutor’s office disappeared.
Hollander sued D.A. Fani Willis. The lawsuit demanded numerous documents related to the James Brown inquiry, as well as “any & all property & evidence submitted to, received by, maintained or possessed by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in relation to said investigation.”
On March 14, 2022 Hollander received a box that was considerably smaller & lighter than the bin she’d handed over. Few or none of the items from the evidence bags were in the box.
Don Geary, then the DA’s legal counsel, said there were no documents other than Hollander’s property receipt.
“Don’t employees from the DA’s office have to sign a log when they handle evidence?” CNN wrote to Geary. “Isn’t there a system for keeping evidence secure?”
“One would expect,” Geary wrote back, “however, there are no other documents concerning the property.”
“Willis should have opened an investigation,” Hollander said. “The FBI should open an investigation. Evidence just doesn’t walk out of the district attorney’s office.”
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