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James Ford Seale
In June 2005, Donna Ladd and Kate Medley of the Jackson Free Press went on a journey to Franklin County, Mississippi, with Thomas Moore and David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to do a story about the Klan murder of Moore’s brother Charles Moore and his friend Henry Dee in 1964. Other media, including The Clarion-Ledger had reported that the main suspect, James Ford Seale, was dead. But the team quickly learned that he was living in Roxie, Miss., in a trailer. Days after that journey, the JFP wrote about that journey for justice, and then continued the investigation after Moore returned to Colorado, resulting in a series of stories and evidence that would later be used in the federal kidnapping trial of Seale, who is now in prison.
Read more about that journey and following stories at the JFP’s Road to Meadville blog/archive.
See an archive of the JFP’s coverage here.
Finding James Ford Seale: A Timeline
Media coverage of the JFP’s role in the case (partial list)
Books that discuss the case:
Devil’s Sanctuary - James Dickerson, 2009
The Past Is Never Dead - Harry MacLean, 2009
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