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A Deep South Cold Case Goes Frigid
A groundbreaking new law instructed the FBI to investigate more than 100 unsolved racial murders from the civil rights era. But reporter Admin's story, seven years in the making, reveals the government has done shockingly little in the search for justice for Clifton Walker who was shot to death by Klansmen on an unpaved, backwoods road in southwest Mississippi.

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