Netflix Docu-Series “Who Killed Malcolm X” May Lead To The Re-Opening Of His Assassination Case

For more than 50 years, scholars and skeptics have believed prosecutors convicted the wrong men in the assassination of Malcolm X. Now, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is reviewing whether to reinvestigate the murder…thanks in part to activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad and Director Rachel Dretzin.

“What got us hooked was the notion that the likely shotgun assassin of Malcolm X was living in plain sight in Newark, and that many people knew of his involvement, and he was uninvestigated, unprosecuted, unquestioned,” Dretzin said.

One of the prosecutors conducting the review, Peter Casolaro, played a vital role in throwing out the convictions of The Exonerated Five, who were wrongfully imprisoned for raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989.

New evidence from the six-part documentary called “Who Killed Malcolm X?” suggests two of the men convicted could not have been at the scene that day based on witness testimony and solid alibis. The docu-series, instead, points the finger at four members of a Nation of Islam mosque in Newark, N.J.

Talmadge Hayer was arrested, leaving the Audubon Ballroom after the shooting, with a clip from a handgun used. Later, police arrested two men from Malcolm’s former Harlem mosque, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, both known as enforcers.

At the time of his death, Malcolm was a marked man: spied on by the F.B.I. and police and denounced as a traitor by the Nation leadership. Allegedly, Farrakhan declared Malcolm “worthy of death.” A week before his assassination, his home in Queens was firebombed while he and his wife and four daughters slept inside.

To judge for yourself, check out the Netflix documentary airing now!