Ex-policeman charged over 1964 killing of black teens....Thank You Lord!

[babsbunny]

Ex-policeman charged over 1964 killing of black teens
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 26 January 2007
A former sheriff's deputy and alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan has been charged over the killing of two black teenagers more than four decades ago - one of the very last of the civil rights-era cases authorities are likely to seek to bring to justice.

James Seale, 71, once believed to be dead, appeared in court in Jackson, Mississippi, yesterday morning where he was charged over the deaths of the two 19-year-olds who were beaten, tied to weights and then thrown alive into a river. Their remains were found several months later by federal authorities who were hunting for the bodies of three civil rights workers who were also murdered by members of the Klan.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2186509.ece

[ThomCat]

1. We've been talking about this on other threads

but I'll happily say one more time... It's About Damned Time They Got This Guy!

Apparently, everyone in town knew he was still alive. He was even listed in the Phone Book. I'm not sure how they got away closing the case because he was supposedly already dead.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. The brother of one of those poor boys . . .

. . . stayed on the case all these years. Probably under constant threat of death himself.

THAT is courage.

[wryter2000]

3. He was a policeman?

I don't know why I find that so shocking, but dayum...

Is this the original guy the informant exposed or an accomplice?

And amen to finally getting him/them. I'm only sorry he/they've been walking around free all this time.

[Hav]

4. .

1964..it always makes one think, that still to this time, the "land of the free and home of the brave" had second class citizens whose life weren't worth anything.

Justice came but damn, it's bitter. This guy still had 40 years despite his crimes and his victims only lived for 19 years. I wonder whether their families ever found peace.