Separated by a door and perspectives, a routine arrest turned deadly in 1973

• Jul 20, 2023
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+6

In Ferriday, an ‘outlaw town,’ the Deacons took a stand

• Updated Jul 14, 2020
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+6

In Homer, the Deacons defied Willie Rainach’s segregation

• Updated Jul 14, 2020
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+5

In Bogalusa, the Deacons fought violence with violence

• Updated Jul 14, 2020
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+6

A half-century ago in Jonesboro, armed black men fought back

• Updated Jul 14, 2020
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Sons of Klansmen haunted by sins of their fathers

• Updated Apr 29, 2020
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+2

Klansman’s daughter apologizes for bombing

• Feb 22, 2017
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+6

The long ride to Hazlehurst ...

• Updated Feb 15, 2017
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Till Bill reauthorization moving through Congress

• May 30, 2016
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+2

The Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana

• Updated May 20, 2016
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Robert Lee’s cold case work remembered

• May 4, 2016
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FBI docs reveal rumors that Gov. McKeithen paid KKK to avoid violence

• Updated Apr 28, 2016
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Recollections of an FBI wife

• Updated Sep 18, 2015
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Author of Till Bill not pleased with FBI cold case effort

• Updated May 22, 2015
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LSU launches cold case website

• Updated Mar 26, 2015
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+2

Syracuse CCJI honors Frank Morris family, Robert Lewis Jr.

• Updated Mar 26, 2015
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+3

Cold Case: After 50 years, DOJ says it’s uncertain who killed Frank Morris; closes case

• Updated Aug 24, 2017
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+6

Cold Case: Who killed Joseph Edwards? DOJ names suspects; closes 1964 case

• Updated Aug 24, 2017
• 1

Cold Case: Subject in Frank Morris arson dies

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: FBI defends its efforts in cold case

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: Murder or self-defense? FBI says it cannot disprove shooter’s claim

• Updated Aug 24, 2017
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Cold Case: If you want to live, don't yell!' Klansman warned kidnap victims in 1964

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: FBI agents worked 47,385 hours on Wharlest Jackson murder in 1967

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
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Cold Case: DOJ report says local cases remain open, 11 cases closed

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: Map pinpoints site of 1967 search for Joseph Edwards' body

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Details on Glover, SDG, killings found in FBI Jackson docs

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: DOJ provided new list of suspected civil rights era murders

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Morville, the KKK and Frank DeLaughter's criminal pursuits

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: Parish justice, 1962: Accused at Angola 11 days after arrest

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
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Cold Case: Ambush on Poor House Road: The 1964 murder of Clifton Walker

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: Cold case witnesses, retired agents ignored by FBI

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Did finger discovered in shoe shop rubble belong to Frank Morris?

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Families pray for justice in civil rights-era murders

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Retired FBI agent John Pfeifer dies; his probes led to convictions in Concordia Parish

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Third grand jury probing Morris murder

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Mayor denied deputy's request to waive Klansman Jack Seale's bond in 1966

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: Son says dad threatened Klansman over Morris arson

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: Chronology of 1964 Morris arson; evidence points to 'Big Frank' as engineer

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Family members hopeful for justice

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: FBI's cold case probes dwindling

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Grand Jury faces deadline in Morris probe

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: A father's grief: Who killed Sullivan Morris' son in 1964?

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Witness recalls DeLaughter killing unarmed Ferriday man in 1959

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: DeLaughter's pipeline to KKK secrets led to Klan trial

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: DeLaughter, Poissot rupture follows 1965 jail house beating

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Morris described as 'Human Torch' on night of shoe shop arson

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: DeLaughter, Poissot linked to criminal acts in 1964-65

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: 1965 beating in Ferriday jail led to conviction of deputy Frank DeLaughter

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
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Cold Case: King Hotel in Ferriday was Klan headquarters in mid-1960s

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Grand Jury probing Frank Morris murder

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Retired FBI agent says Morris would have recognized deputy on night of arson

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Wharlest Jackson documentary to air Feb. 18

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Collaborators in cold case investigations

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

+3

Cold Case: Feds vow to solve Morris murder

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Rayville man implicated in Frank Morris case

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

+2

Cold Case: Half-century old photos show capture Will Haney inside his famous Ferriday club

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Lab reports skull DNA not of missing motel porter Joseph Edwards

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Former FBI agent says the Klan is dead

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Klan wrecking crews responsible for violent attacks

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: David Whatley's trials: SDG Klansmen, bombs & Ferriday High

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: FBI adds Joseph Edwards to unsolved cold case list

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Klansman's info could have averted Jackson bombing

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Was SDG's perfected bomb meant for Metcalfe, not Jackson?

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Family members, Franklin County reach deal over Klan killings

• Updated Sep 8, 2016
• 0

Cold Case: Seales, Avants linked to 1965 Franklin County murder

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Mysteries of the night Joseph Edwards disappeared

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

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Cold Case: A drowning, a kiss triggered Joseph Edwards' murder

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Morville Lounge owner caught in Klan, Mafia crossfire

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: 1965 Concordia lounge arsons linked to KKK/SDG

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Daughters say top FBI informant — Coonie Poissot — lived for the chase

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Morris' best friend — James White Jr. — shot Klansman during 1964 shootout

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Deputy DeLaughter seen with stranger in green car on night of fire

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Beckwith recalls terrifying late night threat: 'You're next!'

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Was shoe shop arson done by Tallulah wrecking crew?

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Was Frank Morris killed over deputy's cowboy boots?

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: In 1967, Klan leader E.L. McDaniel linked four men to 1964 Frank Morris murder

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Questions of baptism and faith following Morris murder

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: U.S. Atty. Donald Washington stepping down; Morris murder probe will continue

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: SDG formed just weeks before Edwards murder in '64

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: James Ford Seale admitted to FBI in 1967 that he was in Silver Dollar Group

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: FBI docs say Jack Seale thwarted Klansman's idea to bomb MIBURN jurors

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: FBI file reveals Klansman Jack Seale was paid informant

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Retired FBI agents unsure who killed Morris, Edwards

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: James Ford Seale: A sheriff's election, nine deaths and a silver dollar

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Filmmaker David Ridgen recounts final hours for Dee & Moore

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Text from November 24, 1970, interview with James Ford Seale after plane crash

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Text from November 18, 1970, article on plane crash James Ford Seale survived

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Ex-Klansman said Red Glover admitted to Metcalfe bombing

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: SDG leader 'Red' Glover was lead suspect in Jackson murder

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Search for Klan leader led to discovery of Morville Lounge

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Justice eluded Exerlena Jackson-Vanison after 1967 car bomb murder of husband

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Flesh found by fisherman believed remains of JoeEd Edwards

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Witness saw Joe-Ed Edwards' Buick pulled over by police car

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Connected by violence — the mafia, Klan & Morville Lounge

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Connected by vice -- the Longs, Marcello & Concordia

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: DA joins feds in Morris probe; Grand Jury may hear case

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: The day a dying ex-Klansman gave God his 'untold story'

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Encounters with Concordia sheriff's deputy Frank DeLaughter in 1960s

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: FBI's Lancaster sought 'dying declaration' from Frank Morris

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Feds shift gears in Morris probe; some witnesses 'untruthful'

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Feds shift gears in Morris probe; some witnesses 'untruthful'

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: No human remains found during Bone Lady's search in Clayton

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Manhein returning to Clayton in search for Joseph Edwards

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Bone Lady returning to Clayton in search for Joe-Ed Edwards

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Syracuse professors honored for cold case work

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: 1968 FBI report on Cario's bomb threat says deputy in control of Concordia

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: 1965 Natchez Liberty Park UKA rally one of largest in South

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Earcel Boyd's spiritual journey — the pulpit and the Klan

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

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Cold Case: Klansmen 'took great pride' in refining bombing skills

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Explosives and weapons: KKK attacks from Concordia to McComb, 1964-67

• Updated Feb 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Klansman's son recalls Shamrock, Silver Dollar Group, meeting Joe Edwards

• Updated Aug 23, 2017
• 0

Cold Case: Civil Rights' group, rogue Klansmen blamed for Morris arson

• Updated Jul 17, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Brothers say father — a Silver Dollar Klansman — 'livid' over Morris murder

• Updated Jun 15, 2023
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Cold Case: Morris' granddaughter says FBI $10,000 reward gives her new hope

• Updated Jul 17, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: FBI interviewed three IP workers for December 1964 murder of Frank Morris

• Updated Jul 17, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Five motives for Morris' murder

• Updated Jul 16, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Rev. Lee on Obama's election: 'I never thought such a day would come'

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Shamrock employee Joe-Ed Edwards 'skinned alive' in 1964, informant told FBI

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: When FBI's Roy K. Moore declared war on the Ku Klux Klan

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: U.S. Attorney to hold status meeting Friday on Morris murder probe

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Passage of Till bill may benefit local cold cases

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Natchez DA Ronnie Harper looking at Seale case

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Seale conviction in Dee-Moore murders overturned

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Transcripts of Frank Morris interviews hours after Dec. 10, 1964 fire

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
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Cold Case: Morris identified three men in white car as attackers

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
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Cold Case: Dee, Moore families file suit against Franklin County, Miss.

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Natchez almost exploded after Metcalfe bombing at Armstrong in 1965

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Is skull found in Clayton remains of JoeEd Edwards?

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: IP employee James Winston kidnapped at gun point, robbed, beaten in 1964

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Shamrock clerk's statement to FBI on Morris murder, Edwards disappearance

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
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Cold Case: Bloody '64: Klan suspected in murders, assaults, bombings

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Rev. Lee visited Morris on deathbed; was to marry JoEd Edwards & girlfriend

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Lee recalls Clayton train wreck of 1920

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
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Cold Case: Bomb that injured Metcalfe made with primer cord

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Why the Klan bombed George Metcalfe, Wharlest Jackson

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
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Cold Case: The night Wharlest Jackson was murdered — Feb. 27, 1967

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
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Cold Case: Retired FBI agent recalls war with Klan in Natchez/Concordia 1964-1965

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: J. Edgar Hoover's interest in Frank Morris murder

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Search for 'Q11' (oil can) led FBI to home of St. Landry Parish farmer

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: FBI diagram

• Updated Feb 14, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Mystery of the suitcase,14 half pints bourbon in rubble of Morris' shoe shop

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
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Cold Case: Blunschi says fire raging when he arrived at Morris' shoe shop

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
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Cold Case: Emergency room nurse said Frank Morris 'smelled like gasoline'

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
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Cold Case: Ferriday Police Department 1965

• Updated Feb 14, 2014
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Cold Case: Sewell, Walsworth saw Morris running from flaming shop; took him to hospital

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Explosion disturbed quiet December night

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
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Cold Case: Morris' net worth $23,000 in 1964; That would equal $150,000 today

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: New Era men, Ferriday men, Klansmen prime suspects in Morris murder

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
• 0

Cold Case Editorial: Cooperation needed in Morris murder

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Was Frank Morris doing too well in business?

• Updated Jul 10, 2014
• 0

Cold Case: Silver Dollar Group linked to attacks — Edwards, Morris, Jackson, Metcalfe

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: The Morris family Christmas nightmare — 1964

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: Whatever happened to Joseph Edwards? Was he Silver Dollar Group target?

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: Silver Dollar Group may have targeted Morris; murder planned over coffee?

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: FBI says 'individuals' questioned in Frank Morris case

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Haney's Big House — a legendary place — down the street from Morris' shop

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: Brother of 1964 murder victim visits Syracuse law students

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: John Doar recalls war against the Klan

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: The Klan is dead

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: Morris murder reported from Texas to Connecticut

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Confrontation at Duncan Park in 1965

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Landrieu says resolution of Morris case crucial: Coburn has hold on Till bill

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Morris attackers unknown to officials — Asst. DA, police chief, fire chief

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Conviction of James Seale offers hope that Frank Morris case could be solved

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: Ties that bind: Klan, bad cops and criminals

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: DOJ says Ferriday 'outlaw country,' told CORE worker's parents: 'Get son out...'

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
• 0

Cold Case: FBI invasion of Mississippi in 1964; 35 agents in Natchez, 10 in Ferriday

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Used car dealer questioned by FBI

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Former reporters — John Herbers, Bill Minor, Lewis Lord — recall covering Klan

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Caser: Eyewitness — 'Tee-Wee' Kelly — forced to leave Ferriday in 1964;

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Klan recruitment efforts heavy in Concordia Parish, Adams County in 1964-65

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Caser: A criminal network may have enabled Morris' killers

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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Cold Case: Granddaughter, Lewis view Morris murder

• Updated Nov 28, 2015
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