He killed five people," Webre said. Frank Morris (19141964) was an American businessman who died as a result of arson to his shoe shop in Ferriday, Louisiana, a city with a history of racial violence. By Sabrina Simms Robertson. "Cold Case: Morris' Granddaughter Says FBI $10,000 Reward Gives Her New Hope". Lewis raced outside with a shotgun. Sons of KKK members haunted by sins of their fathers - The Daily Advertiser Ferriday Police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide that happened Wednesday afternoon. [3][4], In 2007, Silver Dollar Group member James Ford Seale was charged and convicted for the May 1964 kidnapping of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African-American young men in Meadville, Mississippi.[5]. At approximately 1:00a.m., Morris was awakened in a back room of the shop by the sound of glass breaking. Cold Case: James Ford Seale: A sheriff's election, nine deaths and a silver dollar, Cold Case: Who killed Joseph Edwards? Six decades after a Louisiana man's disappearance and presumed murder, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury. So far no charges have been filed. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Nelson is a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project, a group of journalists, filmmakers, law schools and other organizations created in 2008 by Paperny Films in Canada and the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, Calif. With the help of FBI documents Nelson received through Freedom of Information requests and from the Syracuse College of Law Cold Case Justice Initiative, and extensive interviews with those who knew Morris or about the case, he was able to piece together the story, ultimately naming a person suspected of being involved: Arthur Leonard Spencer, 71, of Rayville, La. [2] The FBI had received information that local law enforcement officials had been involved. No one was hurt during the arrest, Ard said. It was kind of a barbershop-type of thing where you sit around, you talk about what has happened, who did this and who did that and what to expect next, Whatley recalled. Blacks also became deputies and police officers. On 50th anniversary of Ferriday civil rights killing - Louisiana Voice King said the investigation is still ongoing and more arrests are anticipated. Young pilot killed in small-plane crash in Catahoula Parish - The News-Star The single-engine Air Tractor 502 crashed around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday along Louisiana 425, about five miles south of Sicily Island, according to a news release from the Northeast Louisiana. That was not the only time Whatley helped an imprisoned black man in Ferriday. The dismantlement was due to several reasons, including the broader enforcement of civil rights laws, the progression of the Vietnam War and the election of blacks to school boards, town councils and police juries. Nelson, Stanley. The Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office (CPSO) is leading the investigation into the shooting at 106 Gremillion Street. Like many Southern crimes against blacks in the 1960s -- an era of racial strife dominated by criminal activities by the Ku Klux Klan -- the incident went unsolved, despite an FBI investigation at the time. On February 27, 1967, Wharlest Jackson, an employee at Armstrong Tire & Rubber Company in Natchez, Mississippi, was killed when a bomb exploded under the hood of his car while he was driving home. Copyright 2021 KNOE. Theriot then allegedly went to Ascension Parish were he killed his parents, and then fled. Natchez Democrat. Louisiana State University Press, 2016. Wed march on the jail. A handful of members throughout the state also served as deacons within their churches, while others made their livings as teachers, construction workers, farm hands and general laborers. (WLBT) - According to Gray station KNOE, authorities in Concordia Parish, Louisiana are investigating the murder of a man recently named Teacher of the Year. Authorities in Concordia Parish say they are investigating the murder of a man recently named Teacher of the Year. [2], The FBI reopened the Frank Morris investigation in 2007, as part of the Civil Rights Era Cold Case Initiative. Frank Morris's mother, Charlotte, died shortly after his birth. Klansmen took advantage of this, throwing a bomb just outside Whatleys bedroom window. These men had long been outraged by one horrid memory - the 1964 arson murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris. The Department of Justice and the FBI say they are conducting ongoing investigations into the Morris case. [2], Stanley Nelson, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, published Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s, after a series of articles in the Concordia Sentinel.
Vermilion County In Jail Mugshots,
Missoula Mugshots 2020,
Articles K