In Mississippi, a former sheriff’s deputy and reported Ku Klux Klan member has been arrested in one of the last major unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era. James Ford Seale has been charged with the 1964 kidnapping of two 19-year-old African-American hitchhikers who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River. Seale’s family claimed he was deceased after investigators reopened the case seven years ago. But efforts by one of the victim’s brothers revealed Seale was alive and still living down the road from where the kidnappings occurred.
Ex-Police Deputy Arrested in 1964 Murders of Black Youths
HeadlineJan 25, 2007