Civil Rights-Era Killings Investigation Ready to Close

Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial
Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial

Three years after the FBI promised to investigate more than 100 unresolved civil rights-era killings, they have  made some surprising discoveries.  Most of the cases will close without indictments. .  The investigations led to very few indictments even though most of the cases were technically solved.  The passage of time left many witnesses too traumatized by events, witnesses  and perpetrators dead and other problems that are unique to cold cases.

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