Fifty-three years ago, on June 24, 1972, 14-year-old Michael Steven Akey, with two juvenile friends, hitched a ride with an unknown white male in a 1962 or 1963 four-door Chevrolet. The kids visited a watermelon patch at Trammell’s Market in Burton, Beaufort County, South Carolina. When they arrived, two of Akey’s friends were in the…