Former Klan Leader Dies In Prison

JACKSON, Miss. (WCBI) – The man convicted in the 1964 slayings of three Mississippi civil rights workers, more than 40 years later, has died in prison.

According to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Edgar Ray Killen died Thursday night, January 11.

The former Ku Klux Klan leader, was 80-years-old in 2005, when a Neshoba County jury convicted him of three counts of Manslaughter.

It was 41 years after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were killed by klansmen and found in a dam in Neshoba County.

The slayings were documented in the 1988 movie “Mississippi Burning.”

Edgar Ray Killen was 92 years old.