Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 race case

[Recursion]

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press Writers

JACKSON, Miss. - A white former sheriff's deputy who was once thought to be dead was arrested on federal charges Wednesday in one of the last major unsolved crimes of the civil rights era — the 1964 killings of two black men who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River.

The break in the 43-year-old case was largely the result of the dogged efforts of the older brother of one of the victims, who vowed to bring the killers to justice.

James Ford Seale, a 71-year-old reputed Ku Klux Klansman from the town of Roxie, was charged with kidnapping hitchhikers Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19.

The victims' weighted, badly decomposed bodies were found by chance two months later in July 1964, during the search for three civil rights workers whose disappearance and deaths in Philadelphia, Miss., got far more attention from the media and the
FBI.

Seale is expected to be arraigned on Thursday in Jackson.

More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_us/murders_cold_case

[ThomCat]

1. Nail this bastard to a wall and gut him!

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It's about time they brought him in. People knew for decades he was alive and living in the same place, and went along with the fabrication that he had died.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. The older brother

must feel some vindication now.

[quiet.american]

3. Proud to give this the 5th vote.

What a horror. May justice be done.

[Clinton_Co_Regulator]

4. K + R

[CHIMO]

5. CBC documentary prompts charges in 1964 U.S. race killings

CBC documentary prompts charges in 1964 U.S. race killings
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | 6:11 PM ET
CBC News

A U.S. grand jury has charged a former sheriff's deputy in the 42-year-old slayings of two African-American men in Mississippi, law enforcement officials said Wednesday, after a CBC documentary filmmaker and his subject brought the cold case back to life.

During the filming process, the CBC's David Ridgen and the brother of one of the victims discovered that one of the two prime suspects — a known member of the Ku Klux Klan initially reported as dead — was still alive.

James Ford Seale of Roxie, Miss., was taken into custody by U.S. marshals on Wednesday afternoon, facing charges in the kidnapping and slaying of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee.

Moore and Ridgen, along with Lampton, who has led the investigation in Mississippi, were travelling to Washington for a news conference as early as Thursday with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/24/murders-cold-case.html


Thomas Moore, right, and Charles Edwards, a suspect in the death of Moore's brother who later agreed to testify against James Seale, face off in 2006 outside a church in Meadville, Miss.
(David Ridgen/CBC)

[tuvor]

6. Whoops.

Totally missed CHIMO's post. :blush:

[Forrest Greene]

7. I Wish There Was Some Way

...to let this cowardly, murdering, son of a bitch know how warm & happy his arrest makes me feel, like a little baby with a fuzzy teddy bear. At 71, there's lots of years left in a life sentence for black inmates to get to know this ex-peace officer intimately. Very intimately.

Good job, congratulations, thank you & sympathies to the older brother.