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Delayed Justice A Salve For Mississippi's Wounds? [audo 7 minutes 34 seconds]

The ghosts of Mississippi die hard.

Forty-five years ago, two young black men disappeared on the outskirts of Homochitto National Park.

The bodies of Charles Moore and Henry Dee finally turned up, brutally mangled, in a tributary of the Mississippi River.

At the same time, the FBI sent agents flooding into the state — but not for this case. They were focused on the murders of three civil rights workers, an incident that would inspire the movie Mississippi Burning a quarter-century later.
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