Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen, a man convicted in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers that inspired the film Mississippi Burning, has died in prison, the brother of a victim said.
Killen was serving a total of 60 years for manslaughter for the June 21, 1964, deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County.
The three civil rights workers, all in their 20s, were ambushed on June 21, 1964. They'd been in the area to speak to the community of Longdale about a church that had recently been burned down.
After their release from the county jail in Philadelphia, a Ku Klux Klan mob tailed their vehicle, forced it off the road and shot them to death.
Their bodies were found buried in a red-clay dam in rural Neshoba County. The dramatic search for the missing men drew national attention to the violent resistance to the civil rights movement.
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His first trial in 1967 ended in mistrial, but Killen was retried almost 40 years later after state authorities reopened the murder investigations, according to the Clarion Ledger.
At the time, no federal murder statutes existed, and the state of MS never brought charges.
The slayings were among the most notorious of the civil rights era and were the subject of the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning". "The only person tried was Edgar Ray Killen, who wasn't even there", David Goodman said.
According to testimony in Killen's 2005 murder trial, he plotted the murders - right down to arranging for the bulldozer to bury the bodies - and later bragged how the civil rights workers had "been taken care of".
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