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  • Former Ku Klux Klansman 80 year old Edgar Ray Killen leaves the Neshoba County jail in Philadelphia Mississippi Friday August 12,2005 after he posted bond He was released pending his appeal.
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  • Edgar Ray Killen is surrounded by police officers as leaves the Neshoba Conty Court House after sentencing, thursday June 23,2005. The media nd locals surround the courthouse ramp anticipating Killens exit. Killen will serve 60yrs to run consecutively.he sentencing in his triple manslaughter case  heavily gurded and not handcuffed in his yellow Neshoba County prison jumpsuit,Thursday June 23,2005 in Philadelphia,Ms. Its the maxium sentence he could get.(Photo/Suzi Altman)
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  • EXCLUSIVE***The small fishing cabinn on the lake, that was the burial site in the earthen dam on Olen Burrages property in Philadelphia,Ms. Friday June 17,2005. There has been no journalists who have ventured to the site in 40 years,until now. James Chaney,Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodmans bodies were pulled from this site in 1964. Edgar Ray Killen is on trial for there murders.(Photo/Suzi Altman)
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  • EXCLUSIVE***The earthen dam now a pond where James chaney,Micjael Schwerner and Andrew Goodmans bodies were found.to the burial site in the earthen dam on Olen Burrages property in Philadelphia,Ms. Friday June 17,2005. There has been no journalists who have ventured to the site in 40 years,until now. James Chaney,Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodmans bodies were pulled from this site in 1964. Edgar Ray Killen is on trial for there murder.(Photo/Suzi Altman)
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  • Portrait of a Killer. Edgar Ray Killen on his way to court for pre trial hearing.
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  • Rita Schwerner Bender,right,widow  of murdered civil rights worker Michael "Micky" Schwerner, bows her head during the  emotioanl  memorial service at the Mt. Zion U.M. Church in Philadelphia Ms. Sunday June 19,2005. Sitting next to her is Barbara Chaney Dailey, James Chaney's sister she is holding a program from the memorial service with her brothers photo on it.
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  • Mrs. Goodman is escorted from the courthouse in Neshoba County during the Edgar Ray Killen trial, , over 40 years after her son was murdered during the summer of 1964. Photo©Suzi Altman
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  • Ernest Avants is shackled and escorted to a waiting police car after his conviction at the Federal Court house in Jackson,MS. Friday February 28,2003. Ernest Avants is was convicted of murdering sharecropper Ben Chester White in 1966 on federal land. (photo/Suzi Altman)
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