On This Day in Weird, June 21...
1964: At the onset of Mississippi's "freedom
summer," Ku Klux Klan members kidnap and murder civil rights workers James
Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. An informer leads FBI agents to
their bodies in August. Trial of the killers is delayed until 1967, when white
jurors deliver a mixed verdict. Justice for the lynch party's ringleader—Edgar
Ray "Preacher" Killen—is delayed until his conviction in 2005. Not
Fortean or cryptozoological, but further proof of real-life human monsters
among us.
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