Revisiting suspicious death of small-town football star and the questions that remain

In 1970, Jim Duncan was a rising star for the Baltimore Colts. Two years later, the only Super Bowl champion from Lancaster, S.C., died of a gunshot wound while inside his hometown police station. No autopsy was performed; no independent investigation was done.

This three-year-long multimedia investigation chronicles Duncan’s rise “from the cotton fields to glory,” as he described it. It also reveals how the questions surrounding his death are still acutely relevant.