Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders

James Ford Seale was brought to justice 43 years after tying blocks to the feet of two teenagers and throwing them in river

Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 August 2011 20.24 BST

James Ford Seale, who in 1964 committed one of the most gruesome acts of the segregationist South when he tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river, has died – for the second time.

Seale's death was first announced in the pages of the Clarion Ledger, the Jackson paper that helped to put him behind bars when in 2000 it launched an investigation into the killing of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. But it took a further seven years before Seale was finally convicted, 43 years after the original murders. He was given life sentences for kidnapping and conspiracy.

Part of the reason that it took so long to obtain justice was that, after the Clarion Ledger investigation, Seale, a truck driver, went to ground. Neighbours in the small Mississippi town of Roxie said that he had died, a contention taken as fact and reported by several newspapers including the Los Angeles Times in 2002.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/03/klansman-dies-1964-murders

[Horse with no Name]

1. I sincerely hope that he is enjoying the eternal inferno of Hell

4 years just wasn't long enough...

[libguy_6731]

5. +1000

[MadMaddie]

2. Good Riddence and may he rot in hell

[bluestateguy]

3. These people can't die fast enough

As more and more of them die we move just a little closer to a more just society.

[applegrove]

4. You hope that those two kids would have a chance to say something to him before he goes to ****.