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Article: Many agents probing church fires take it very personally.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 22, 1996
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CORINTH, Miss. _ They've had to sift, time and time and time again, through the ash and rubble of torched Southern churches. Over and over, the acrid stench of destruction burning their nostrils, they've had to face _ mostly without answers _ the questioning eyes of rural black ministers.
They are the men and women whose job it is to find those responsible for more than three dozen church fires over the last 18 months. And as frustration builds with each new blaze, the pressure on them increases.
Last week, 50 investigators, mostly agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI, were poking through the embers of two black churches in ...