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Cecil Ray Price (April 15, 1938 - May 6, 2001) was a former deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi and member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964 he played a role in the murders of three civil rights workers. Price stopped the three men for speeding, detained them in the county jail ,and prevented them form having contact with any outsiders, while he and fellow Klansmen worked out a murder scheme. He then released the three men, pursued them, detained them again, and drove them to an isolated spot where they were murdered.

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  • Cecil Price
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  • Cecil Ray Price (April 15, 1938 - May 6, 2001) was a former deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi and member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964 he played a role in the murders of three civil rights workers. Price stopped the three men for speeding, detained them in the county jail ,and prevented them form having contact with any outsiders, while he and fellow Klansmen worked out a murder scheme. He then released the three men, pursued them, detained them again, and drove them to an isolated spot where they were murdered.
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  • Cecil Price
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  • Injuries sustained in a fall
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  • Police Officer
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  • 2001(xsd:integer)
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  • 1938(xsd:integer)
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  • Cecil Ray Price (April 15, 1938 - May 6, 2001) was a former deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi and member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964 he played a role in the murders of three civil rights workers. Price stopped the three men for speeding, detained them in the county jail ,and prevented them form having contact with any outsiders, while he and fellow Klansmen worked out a murder scheme. He then released the three men, pursued them, detained them again, and drove them to an isolated spot where they were murdered. Price was never charged with the murders, although he was convicted of violating the three men's civil rights, and served four years on a six year sentence. Price died of injuries he sustained in a fall in 2001. At the time of his death, prosecutors were considering bringing charges against some of the remaining suspects in the murders, including Price.
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