They had been arrested and then released by a Neshoba County sheriff's deputy named Cecil Price.
Cecil Price died following a fall from a piece of equipment at his job on May 6, 2001.
That afternoon, Cecil Price, a Philadelphia deputy sheriff, arrested Chaney on a speeding charge, and his white associates as suspects in the church burning.
In the afternoon, they were arrested for "speeding" by a Neshoba County deputy sheriff, Cecil Price.
That afternoon they were arrested for "speeding" by Neshoba County's deputy sheriff, Cecil Price.
After numerous delays, a Federal jury convicted Sam Bowers, Cecil Price and five other defendants.
Philadelphia, a town of about 7,000 people, looks today much as it did on that blistering Sunday afternoon 34 years ago when Cecil Price made his fateful arrest.
Cecil Price spent hours searching for her until she was found.
He remembers Cecil Price telling him, several years ago, about being "brainwashed" by the Klan.
One of his deputies was Cecil Price.