Interesting side note: According to the mafia's side of this case (yes, there is one, believe it or not): When the case stalled for the FBI, they turned to a long-time informant -- Greg Scarpa, a homicidal capo in the Colombo family. He traveled to Mississippi, where agents gave him cash and a gun. He picked up a local Klansman, drove him to an Army base, beat him nearly to death, and stuck the gun in his mouth and down his throat. At that point the Klansman -- a local tv salesman -- gave up the location of the bodies of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.
Interesting side note: According to the mafia's side of this case (yes, there is one, believe it or not): When the case stalled for the FBI, they turned to a long-time informant -- Greg Scarpa, a homicidal capo in the Colombo family. He traveled to Mississippi, where agents gave him cash and a gun. He picked up a local Klansman, drove him to an Army base, beat him nearly to death, and stuck the gun in his mouth and down his throat. At that point the Klansman -- a local tv salesman -- gave up the location of the bodies of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.