Edgar Ray Killen (January 10, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, ...
Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. Wikipedia
Born: January 17, 1925, Philadelphia, MS
Died: January 12, 2018 (age 92 years), Parchman, MS
Movies: Neshoba
Spouse: Betty Jo Killen (m. ?–2018)
Conviction(s): Manslaughter (3 counts)
Criminal penalty: De facto life imprisonment (60 years) with the possibility of parole after 20 years
Criminal status: Deceased
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Jan 12, 2018 · Mr. Killen, who died in prison, drew a 60-year sentence in 2005 after evading conviction 41 years earlier in the murders of three civil ...
Mar 21, 2018 · Stubborn and willing to take up violence as a Ku Klux Klan kleagle in rural Mississippi, prison did nothing to mellow Edgar Ray Killen.
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Edgar Ray Killen, charged with the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near this small eastern Mississippi town, had emerged from a white sedan.
Jan 12, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman responsible for the infamous murder of three Freedom Summer workers in 1964, has died in a Mississippi ...
Jan 12, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of 3 civil rights workers, dies in prison.
Killen, Edgar Ray. Authoritative Name: Killen, Edgar Ray; Biography: "On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers-a 21-year-old black Mississippian, ...
Jan 12, 2018 · Officials say Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and Ku Klux Klansman convicted for plotting the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists ...