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A man is expected to appear in court charged in connection with the deaths of two black teenagers kidnapped and killed in Mississippi in 1964. A former Ku Klux Klan member has been charged with kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 murders of two black teenagers in Mississippi.
James Seale, a former sheriff's deputy, was arrested on Wednesday. The exact charge he faces has not been disclosed. James Seale, a 71-year-old former sheriff's deputy, denies the charges.
The dead men, Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, were abducted by the Ku Klux Klan while hitchhiking. The dead men, Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, were long thought to have been abducted by the white supremacist group while hitchhiking.
Their beaten and decomposed bodies were found two months later in the Mississippi River. The beaten and decomposed bodies of the two 19-year-olds were found in the Mississippi River two months later.
Mr Seale and a second man, Charles Marcus Edwards, were arrested at the time of the abductions. Mr Edwards has not been charged. Mr Seale, who was arrested on Wednesday, appeared in court in Jackson, Mississippi, charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
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An informant for the FBI said the unconscious teenagers were taken to the river, weighed them down and dumped in the water. Prosecutors said that in May 1964 Mr Seale aimed a shotgun at the two black men while fellow Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat them with tree branches.
The FBI were already searching for three missing civil rights workers and so turned the case over to the local authorities, which did not charge Mr Seale and Mr Edwards. According to the indictment, Mr Seale and the others attached weights to the two men, took them out on the water in a boat and threw them into the river.
Their bodies were discovered two months later by the FBI during a search for three missing civil rights workers.
Mr Seale and a second man were arrested at the time. Consumed by the civil rights case, the FBI turned the case over to the local authorities, which threw out all charges.
The second suspect, church deacon and reputed KKK member Charles Marcus Edwards, 72, has not been charged.
During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, dozens of black people were killed by white people who wanted to retain racial segregation.During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, dozens of black people were killed by white people who wanted to retain racial segregation.
Few of the crimes were solved, partly because some of the perpetrators were protected by state and local officials.Few of the crimes were solved, partly because some of the perpetrators were protected by state and local officials.
"I've been crying. First time I've cried in about 50 years, " said Mr Moore's brother Thomas after the arrest. Mr Seale has been jailed pending a bail hearing set for Monday.
''It's not going to bring his life back. But some way or another, I think he would be satisfied." If convicted, Mr Seale will face a maximum term of life imprisonment on each count of the indictment.