A Mississippi Man recently charged with the murders of two African-American teenagers in 1964 wrote a hate letter published in the Franklin Tribune not long after committing the crime. The letter provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a man accused in connection with these murders and the culture behind segregation in Mississippi during the civil rights movement.
As a result of Dave Ridgen’s poking and asking questions about the extra missing bodies in the Mississippi Burning case, more families of the victims’ are finding justice.