Free Republic

JACKSON, Miss. -- In 1964, FBI agents assigned to the biggest civil rights investigation of their time were searching for three missing voter-registration volunteers when the remains of two young black men were pulled from the murky Mississippi River. At the time, the FBI was more interested in finding the three civil rights workers. And this being Mississippi in the 1960s -- when a white man could kill a black man and get away with it -- the investigation into the other deaths did not get far. Four decades later, a federal prosecutor in Mississippi is renewing the investigation into...

NATCHEZ - Thomas Moore doesn't know how close he is to justice. But he believes the best opportunity to solve his brother's 41-year-old murder is at hand. The climate is right, the time is right, and the spotlight is on. Moore's crusade for convictions in the killings of his brother, Charles Eddie Moore, and a friend, Henry Hezekiah Dee, culminated this week in U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton's pledge to re-investigate the Franklin County murders, along with the truck bomb killing of Natchez's Wharlest Jackson in 1967. "For the first time in 41 years, the people that can bring this to...