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    Edgar Ray Killen Dies; Klansman Behind Civil Rights Workers' Murders In 1964

    Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman responsible for the infamous murder of three Freedom Summer workers in 1964, has died in a Mississippi prison. Their story inspired the film Mississippi Burning.
    by Debbie Elliott Jan 12, 2018 2 minutes
    Convicted killer Edgar Ray Killen points to a family member during a recess in an appeal hearing for his bond in Philadelphia, Mississippi, September 9, 2005.

    Edgar Ray Killen, the former Ku Klux Klansman responsible for a notorious civil rights era murder, has died in a Mississippi prison. Killen orchestrated the killings of three Freedom Summer workers in Neshoba County, Miss. in 1964, a crime that shocked the nation and

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