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He faced another capital murder trial later in the year for the remaining murders of the Parker family. For Charlotte Jo's murder, Simon was tried in Jones County . The jury was unable to unanimously agree on a death sentence so he was sentenced to life in prison based on Mississippi law.
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964.
The murder of the activists sparked national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based on the events. In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged 18 individuals with civil rights ...
Police were told a Mississippi man had killed himself in 2018, but five years later, his 75-year-old widow has been arrested and charged with murder in the death. The Forrest County Sheriff's ...
On Thursday, a Mississippi state judge dropped murder charges against two Black police officers who were accused of beating a black man to death on January 13, 2019.
A Black man convicted of capital murder in the stabbing death of an 84-year-old Mississippi woman walked out of prison a free man after a judge overturned the conviction. Eddie Lee Howard, now 67 ...
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi.
Franklin Delano Floyd (June 17, 1943 – January 23, 2023) [2] was an American murderer, rapist, and death row inmate. He was convicted of the 1989 murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso, as well as the kidnapping of 6-year-old Michael Anthony Hughes, [3] who he claimed was his son, from his elementary school in Choctaw, Oklahoma.