Jim Duncan, a Black man from Lancaster, South Carolina, was the top kickoff return man in the NFL and a rising star with the Baltimore Colts in 1970. Two years later, Jim would die inside his hometown police station: authorities told his family Jim had taken the gun off an officer and shot himself with it. “Most people didn’t believe that story,” Jim’s brother says. Now, reporter and fellow South Carolinian
Bret McCormick is trying to find closure on a story that seems all-too-current. If you like sports or true crime,
Longshot: Return Man will keep you riveted until the very end.