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On August 4, 1964, the bodies of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were found buried in a dam 25 feet deep. Schwerner and Goodman had been shot in the heart. The murders were the result of a conspiracy between police Neshoba County and the Ku Klux Klan. Once released from police custody, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney were arrested by the Ku Klux Klan and killed. Fifteen men were eventually put on trial for the murders, but only seven of them were imprisoned with sentences of 10 years or less. Justice did not return until 2005, when Edgar Ray Killen was arrested for being the main conspirator in the murders. This time he did not escape so easily. The 80 year old man was sentenced on three counts of murder, each with a possible

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