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Inside Investigations: Who Killed Alberta Jones?

Alberta Jones was a civil rights pioneer when she was murdered in Louisville in 1965. She recently received a hometown hero banner but even with that, many still don't know much about her and even less about her unsolved murder.

Derrick Rose, Lena Duncan

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Published: 6:07 PM EDT May 7, 2018
Updated: 7:09 PM EDT May 9, 2018

Louisville native Alberta Odell Jones was an icon and trailblazer, yet, sadly in August 1965, she also became a high-profile murder victim.

"I do believe that she was killed because of the work that she was involved in," Bellarmine University professor Dr. Lee Remington told the ITEAM.

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