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The Mississippi Burning Trial \united States vs. Price et al.): A Trial Amount
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Update (May, 2001):
On May 6, 2001, three days after falling from a lift in an equipment rental store, Cecil Price died of head injuries. Price's death was seen by Attorney General Moore as a huge setback to the ongoing investigation of the 1964 case: "If he had been a defendant, he would have been a principal defendant. If he had been a witness, he would have been our best witness. Either way, his death is a tragic blow to our case." Before his death, Price told investigators that, after jailing the three civil rights workers, he called Billy Wayne Posey and asked his to get in touch with Edgar Ray Killen, who then planned the killings.
Joe Ellis The Clarion-Ledger
Edgar Ray Killen in 2005
Update (October, 2004):
In the photo to the left, Jackson State University students and others march in downtown Jackson in October 2004 demanding that Attorney General Jim Hood prosecute Edgar Ray Killen, 79, a suspect in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.
On October 6, 2004 approximately 500 people marched in support of state prosecution of former Klan preacher Edgar Ray Killen for the murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Killen, now 79, escaped conviction in 1967 when a lone juror refused "to convict a preacher." Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, asked about the efforts to gain an indictment of Killen, said that he would not be pressured by emotion to reopen the old case. "This is going to be about facts," he said in an interview with Ryan Clark of the Clarion-Ledger. Killen offered no comment about public efforts to gain his conviction.
Update (January 7, 2005):
On January 6, 2005, the State of Mississippi charged 79-year-old former Klan preacher Edgar Rav Killen with murder in connection with the slayings of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. Police arrested Killen at his home following a grand jury session, according to Neshoba County Sheriff Larry Myers. Convicted Klan conspirator Billv Wavne Posev expressed anger at Killen's arrest: "After 40 years to come back and do something like this is ridiculous...like a nightmare."
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html
6/18/2013