Four and a half years after the FBI announced it would reopen and investigate more...
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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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In July 1964 the bodies of two black men were found in a Mississippi river. The FBI found...
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