Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 killings of two black men

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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.



This July 9, 2006, photo, taken from video footage shot by filmmaker David Ridgen, shows a confrontation at Bunkley Baptist Church outside Meadville, Miss., between Charles Edwards, left, and Thomas Moore. Edwards and his cousin were charged in 1964 for the murder of Moore's brother and another black man. Following the confrontation, Edwards broke 42 years of silence and agreed to testify against his cousin. James Ford Seale, of Roxie, Miss., a former Mississippi sheriff's deputy, was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.(AP Photo/CBC, David Ridgen)

[MissB]

1. I'm glad to see that justice may finally be done.

[AndyA]

2. Finally those two young men will get some justice.

1964...43 years ago. That's a long time to wait.

What horrible things we humans do to each other. :(

[ThomCat]

3. Finally.

x(

I'd much rather that they still had their lives instead. Or baring that, I wish this bastard could spend decades in jail.

But getting tried and locked up in his old age will have to do. :grr:

[wicket]

6. We certainly do

:(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Is Lou Dobbs going to demand the case be dropped?

[oasis]

5. Haley Barbour's gotta look for another precinct captain.(eom)

[malaise]

7. So much more remains buried

but it's nice to see one more criminal charged for murder.

[wicket]

8. kick

:kick:

[wicket]

9. and another

:kick:

[etherealtruth]

10. The families of those two young men ...

...deserve to see some type of justice.

Nothing will ever undo the horrors that sick "F" participated in ... but, hopefully, this will give the brother of the one of the victims a little peace.

[FredScuttle]

11. All hail Thomas Moore

That man has my admiration and respect....I can't imagine keeping going for 42 years to find my brother's killer. I'd be too consumed by rage or frustration. And if some peckerwood who knew who killed my brother pointed a cane at me? I take that cane and stick it up his Dixie ass.

[wicket]

12. "I take that cane and stick it up his Dixie ass."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: