What were the economic consequences for the two murderers of Emmett till?

Answer 1

The jury did not indict them, but they did have legal costs.

Friends took up collections for them, but J. W. Milam claimed to have never seen most of that money. He ended up in financial trouble. A reporter for Look Magazine paid the two brothers $3,150 for their story. Knowing they could not get in trouble with double jeopardy, they confessed to everything they did in chilling detail. After this, many of their friends had nothing else to do with them. J. W. Milam ended up back in court on multiple occasions for bounced checks, stolen credit cards, and other debt.

Milam's brother in law finally assisted him in gathering the money to rent property for farming cotton. The black community refused to come do any work for him, so he had to hire whites to bring in the harvest, which he had to pay much more.

There isn't much known after that point. It isn't even totally clear if he remained married to his wife, Juanita. There is not much recorded about this aspect of the Bryant's lives. It is known that they divorced, and Carolyn Bryant remarried several times.