Mystery Murder & Mayhem · Andrea Lea

Mississippi Justice

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A tip from Highway Patrol Officer Maynard King led the FBI to the buried bodies of the three civil rights workers at the Old Jolly Farm.
The host recounts the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. The episode details their arrests, the FBI investigation, the delayed justice, and the unexpected friendship between KKK leader Edgar Ray Killen and his African American cellmate decades later.

As heard by us

A grim civil rights case shaped into a steady fight over justice, jurisdiction, and belief.

Mississippi Justice follows a 1960s Mississippi civil rights case from Klan violence to the discovery of the buried bodies, then through the long federal fight that followed.

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You want a serious Civil Rights-era case that moves from Mississippi violence into a hard-fought courtroom battle.

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