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Some Mississippians 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...
...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's two top law officers had been charged with complicity in the murder of three civil rights workers?Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman...
...Freewill Baptist preacher, a tavern bouncer, a 71-year-old Philadelphia cop, and a 17-year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers had been so shameless, shocking and senseless a crime...
Despite the agents' certainty that they had nailed the men who had plotted the murders, they still could not directly charge them with the slayings. Murder is a state offense, except on federal property, and the Mississippians were therefore beyond the jurisdictional reach of the Federal Government so far as murder was concerned. So 19 of the 21 arrested?including Rainey and Price?were charged under a section of an 1870 law that was passed, ironically, to control Klan terrorism nearly a century ago. Titled "Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens," it reads: "If two or more persons conspire to injure...
...head scratching followed the international success of The Name of the Rose during the early 1980s. People whose business it is to foresee what books the public will buy were stumped; who would have predicted blockbusterdom for an abstruse murder mystery set in a 14th century monastery and written by an Italian professor of semiotics? Experts could console themselves with the thought that Umberto Eco's worldwide triumph was a once-in-a-lifetime aberration. Now, even that cold comfort seems endangered. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is about to hit the English-speaking world after a dazzling debut...