Article: Cracked cold case: the Justice Department's 2007 conviction of the 1964 murders of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee.

Magical thinking is a component of folklore, certainly of Southern folklore, and the most pervasive of magical notions is that a secret can be kept. In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the persistence of this belief is evidenced in retrospect by the behavior of those in white hoods who imagined that their identities were secret, that disappearances would go unquestioned, and that real events do not leave a trail.

On May 2, 1964, two 19-year-old black men disappeared from Meadville, Mississippi. A month later, three civil rights workers also disappeared in Mississippi; but this disappearance was actually investigated (Godoy and Lohr, 2007). Federal agents who ...

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