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...three young men never made it back to Meridian. Two days later, the burned wreck of their blue Ford station wagon was found twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia. While an army of FBI men and 400 sailors took up a painstaking ten-county search, many Mississippians preferred to believe that their disappearance was all a hoax. "They could be in Cuba," said Governor Paul Johnson airily. "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity," pshawed Neshoba Sheriff L. A. Rainey...
Brutally Beaten. Though the FBI declined to admit it, the break apparently came after agents offered to pay $25,000 for inside information. And "somebody," as one bitter Philadelphian put it, "finally went and opened up." The informant, whoever it was, knew what he was talking about. The federal men had to dig only one hole to find the bodies. Schwerner and Goodman had each been shot through the heart with a single .38-caliber bullet. Chaney had three slugs in his body and, according to an unofficial autopsy, had been brutally beaten. "In my 25 years as a pathologist...
...were shocked that the cold-blooded triple murder had not turned out to be a hoax after all. "I just didn't think we had people like that around," said a Jackson high school coach. Others seemed equally shocked that someone had violated the "code" by squealing to the FBI...
...federal agents pushed on in a grim effort to track down the killers, and President Johnson at week's end told a press conference that "substantive results can be expected in a very short time." Near the grave, FBI men sifted every inch of dirt, hunting for such evidence as cigarette butts and shirt buttons, and sent several 20-gallon cans containing scraps and other possible evidence to the Bureau's Washington laboratory for analysis...
Moments after the lawmen entered their office, the four FBI agents left their cars, went into the courthouse, quietly told Rainey and Price they were under arrest. Unsurprised, the sheriff removed his pistol and badge, handed his keys to his secretary. Then Rainey and Price walked out with the agents, down through a cursing gauntlet of local rednecks who had gathered as soon as they spotted the FBI men, now as familiar as neighbors after months of work in the area. The crowd knew perfectly well that at last the long-awaited event had occurred: Neshoba County...