JAMES FORD SEALE, ROT IN HELL (FOR REAL THIS TIME)!

If this Kluxer’s family didn’t lie to gullible press at the time saying he had died, who knows? James Ford Seale might have gone to jail earlier. But just like when we catch Nazi War criminals in their eighties, better late than never. Seale was found by the brother of the young boy he killed over 40 years ago, who with the help of a documentary was not only able to find him, but also compile the evidence that resulted in him dying in prison on Aug. 2. Seale’s downfall was the fact that the Mississippi of today is a litle different than the one that let him get away with murder. Otherwise he might have served only a few years or worse, get acquitted. Now he is known forvever as a racist killer that contributed to the ugly part of this society. And the good news: We know for a fact that he’s dead. And the weather gave him the perfect sendoff with the temperature being above 100 degrees the day he died. We like to think of it as God prepping him for eternity.

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Klu Klux Klansman James Ford Seale, 76, who committed one of the most heinous crimes of the segregationist South has died 43 years after being convicted of murder.

In 1964 Searle tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river where Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee were left to drown.

Moore and Dee, both 19, were suspect by the Ku Klux Klan of taking part in civil rights activities during of the 1964 “freedom summer” – which aimed to give blacks a vote.

The pair were abducted on May 2, 1964 by Seale and other members of the Ku Klux Klan. They were beaten with sticks, thrown into the boot of a car, driven around Louisiana and Mississippi and then dumped alive in the river weighed down with the engine blocks of a Jeep.

A cursory police investigation was closed after three months and yeilded no results.

Years later when Jackson newspaper Clarion Ledger investigated the murders, Searle evaded scrutiny by faking his own death, which was reported in the Clarion Ledger.

Searle, a truck driver, went to ground. Neighbors in the small Mississippi town of Roxie said that he had died, a contention taken as fact and reported by several newspapers including the Los Angeles Times in 2002.

In July 2004 Moore’s brother, Thomas, and a filmmaker from Canadian television went to Roxie to make a documentary about the killings. While filming caught a local on camera saying, “He ain’t dead. I’ll show you where he lives.”

When Searle was captured on camera alive in his yard, local police were persuaded to investigate the case.

Seale was finally convicted, 43 years after the original murders. He was given life sentences for kidnapping and conspiracy.