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The car in which three civil rights volunteers were murdered in 1964. The Justice Department recently closed a decades-long, multi-pronged investigation into the 1964 murders of three civil rights volunteers in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. On June 21 that state's Attorney General, James Hood, held a press conference during which he said, "I am convinced that during the last 52 years, investigators have done everything possible under the law to find those responsible and hold them accountable .... we have determined that there is no likelihood of any additional convictions. Absent any new information presented to the F.B.I. or my office, this case will be closed." The Justice Department's report to the Mississippi AG on the final investigation into the June 21, 1964 murders of Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, 21, a black Mississippian, is 48 pages long and includes not one reference to C...

The Grim Reaper is back in the headlines, courtesy of Larry Mazza, who claims he had an affair with Scarpa's second wife, Linda Schiro, who inadvertently saved former FBI agent Lin DeVecchio when he was on trial. Greg Scarpa, feared Colombo enforcer , apparently had some pretty amazing secrets . Schiro was proven as unreliable on the witness stand by a team of reporters, Tom Robbins and Jerry Capeci. The two had been working on a book with Schiro earlier and had in their possession tape recordings of Schiro contradicting when she'd previously said about DeVecchio.