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The Mississippi Burning Trial ^United States vs. Price et al.): A Trial Account	Page	9	of	11
Gregory Scarpa, the mobster who helped crack the "Mississippi Burning" case when he stuck a gun down the mouth of an appliance-selling KKK member.
More arrests in the case are expected. Carolyn Goodman, the 89-year-old mother of victim Andrew Goodman was pleased with the news. She hoped the killers would someday be "behind bars and think about what they've done."
Prosecutor John Doar told me in 1999 that the failure of the federal jury in 1967 to convict Killen was his biggest disappointment. Killen "was really central to the conspiracy," Doar said. He believed the jury might have divided on Killen because the evidence against him was more circumstantial that it was for those convicted. When Killen returned home to Philadelphia after the 1967 trial he greeted one of his neighbors by saying, "Man, I thought they were fittin' me for overalls over there [at the trial in Meridian]."
Update (June 13, 2005):
Jury selection opened today in Philadelphia, Mississippi in the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen. Killen watched the proceedings from a wheelchair he has used since he broke his legs in a tree-cutting accident in March. Security was tight with streets around the courthouse barricaded. Ben Chaney, the brother of murder victim James Chaney, told reporters he found the prosecution encouraging. Other civil rights observers complained, however, that other surviving conspirators, such as Olen Burrage. should be facing charges as well.
Update (June 23, 2005):
Judge Marcus Gordon today sentenced Edgar Ray Killen to serve three 20-year terms, one for each conviction of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964. Judge Gordon said in pronouncing sentence, "I have taken into consideration that there are three lives in this case
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