Did Emmett Till's father, Louis Till really rape two women and murder a third?

This is an example of a fact that is true but is hardly
relevant.

Emmett Till was, of course, the African American
boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for having offended (stories differ as to
what he did) a white woman.

Till's father was in fact
executed in Italy in World War II.  He was executed for raping two Italian women and
killing another.  There is no way to know if Louis Till was truly
guilty.

But this is of no real relevance to what happened
to Emmett Till.  Till did not know his father and so his father's attitudes towards
women could not have been passed on to him.  He also did not know the circumstances of
his father's death.  This is, therefore, the kind of fact that is presented to try to
argue that Emmett Till would have been likely to actually try to harm the woman involved
in the incident.  However, I would argue that the conduct of Lewis Till can have no
bearing on what happened to his son.