Ku Klux Klansman Arrested In 1964 Slayings
 

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Reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged in 1964 slayings
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss. -- A reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested late Thursday on murder charges in the 1964 slaying of three voter-registration volunteers, one of the last unsolved mysteries from the civil rights era, officials said.

Neshoba County Sheriff Larry Myers told The Associated Press Edgar Ray Killen was arrested at his home without incident. ADVERTISEMENT


The arrest followed a grand jury meeting Thursday that apparently included testimony from individuals believed to have knowledge about the killings, dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."

Myers said Killen was being held on three counts of murder. "We went ahead and got him because he was high profile and we knew where he was," the sheriff said.

They recapped this case on a history of the KKK that the history channel did. I'm really glad they were finally caught. It's kinda how they finally got the guy who bombed the Birmingham church that killed the four little girls.

CONVICTED!
 

The jury just convicted him of manslaughter!

The last I heard the jury was deadlocked. I'm glad he was convicted of something!

A Stupid old man when He was young and a Red Neck Cracker is finally paying for His ineptitudal S*IT!

How can someone take another persons life and live with it!:(

I lived with the Power of God in My Holster, 357 Mag. and I was always worried about it. Almost had to use it several times, thank goodness I didnt have to!

It's ridiculous that bail was even granted to this convicted killer, but now it's been revoked after they found out he lied about his health. The guy was going to go to a hate rally even.

By the way one of the young men he killed was an AEPi (Michael Schwerner, Beta - Cornell University 1961).

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Klansman's bail revoked
Fri Sep 9, 2005 4:27 PM ET



By Jeff Edwards

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (Reuters) - A judge sent Edgar Ray Killen back to prison on Friday and said the Klansman jailed for orchestrating the murder of three civil rights workers had misled the court about his health to win bail.

Killen, who used an oxygen tank to assist his breathing during his trial in June, broke both legs in a tree-cutting accident in March. He testified at his bond hearing in August that he was in great pain, was unable to walk and needed therapy that was unavailable in prison.

But a sheriff's deputy testified on Friday that he saw 80-year-old Killen at a gas station, walking and standing beside his pickup truck. Several other deputies said they had seen Killen driving around town.

"I feel fraud has been committed upon the court," Circuit Court Judge Marcus Gordon told Killen, who sat before him in a wheelchair. The judge revoked Killen's bail.

In June, a jury convicted Killen on three counts of manslaughter for the 1964 killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, three young civil rights workers who were registering blacks to vote in Mississippi.

The notorious crime galvanized the civil rights movement and inspired the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."

Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison but in August, Gordon released him on $600,000 bail pending appeal because of his deteriorating health.

The judge noted on Friday that a local newspaper had quoted Killen as saying he planned to attend a "Killen Appreciation Day" reception proposed by a white supremacist group.

Gordon said Killen's mobility obviously was not as limited as he had claimed and ordered him back to prison. Deputies wheeled Killen out of the courthouse in his wheelchair and drove him to the Neshoba County jail to await transfer to the state prison.

"When you come into court and place yourself in front of the court in a truthful manner, you'll receive justice," the judge told reporters outside the courthouse later. "But when you come in there with fraudulent testimony, the courts can't stand for that."

-Rudey