If so, could this man be a co-conspirator?
Posted on 01/24/2007 1:39:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
The former deputy, James Ford Seale, of Roxie, Miss., was named in a federal indictment charging him in connection with the teens' disappearance and deaths while they were hitchhiking in a rural area of the state east of Natchez.
Until recently, Seale was thought to be dead, and the investigation into the two deaths had long been abandoned.
Seale was taken into custody by U.S. marshals Wednesday afternoon and was taken to Jackson, Miss. He is expected to be arraigned Thursday on kidnapping charges stemming from the May 1964 disappearances of Henry Dee and Charles Moore.
Two months after Dee and Moore disappeared, their bodies were pulled from the Mississippi River as part of an FBI-led search for three civil rights workers reported missing about 160 miles away near Philadelphia, Miss.
Federal authorities, who were focusing on the more famous "Mississippi Burning" killings, turned the Dee and Moore case over to local authorities. A short time later, a justice of the peace called an end to the inquiry without presenting evidence to a grand jury.
Moore's older brother, Thomas Moore, worked with Canadian film producer David Ridgen for two years piecing together what happened in 1964. The effort led them to a brief confrontation with Seale, a former sheriff's deputy who had been reported as deceased in several newspapers.
In 2000, the Justice Department's civil rights unit reopened the case.
Moore and Ridgen, along with Dunn Lampton, the U.S. attorney who has led the investigation in Mississippi, were traveling to Washington for a news conference as early as Thursday with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
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AP Writer Breed contributed to this report from Raleigh, N.C.
If so, could this man be a co-conspirator?
****Until recently, Seale was thought to be dead, and the investigation into the two deaths had long been abandoned**
I wonder what made them decide Seale wasnt dead?
Not sure at this point, it will likely come out now what happened, and when he left and under what scenario he "died".
.... I told you ...
See this posting:
77-year-old Pharr man arrested in California cold case [murder, flees to Mexico again]
"Two days after his arrest, Del Rio was released from the Hidalgo County jail.
Prosecutors in California had decided not to pursue murder charges against him, citing the passage of time, concern for his health and the weakened memories of witnesses."
I guess if you're an illegal alien Alberto won't prosecute.
He probably turned up on a Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes mailing list.
(All joking aside, apparently a number of long-term fugitives have been found this way.)
"Hey, Seale, guess what?! There's no statute of limitations on murder. Surprise!"
WOW- 2 cold cases solved within days of each other!!!
Killing of a cop inside the police station by Black Panthers has been "solved" in San Francisco, with the arrest of 8 suspects. One more is being sought. Cop killed in (I believe) 1964. Anyway, one of the suspects was a maintenance worked INSIDE City Hall. Wonder what other info he has been passing to the Black Panthers from that job position????
Remind me, please. You've told me a lot. :0)
ping
It's not so much important 'what' I told you... just the fact that I told you...
I'm reminding you. Let me in!!!
Well now I'm telling you.....
Don'tchoo tell me...
Yep, you are turning into a true Mississippian for sure.
Make winter go away and I'll be happier. I am sick of COLD weather and gray skies!
I just wonder how many more are still out there.
They will all soon face the "death" penalty anyway.
The wheels of justice just keeps rolling along.
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