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Ex-Deputy Arraigned In 1964 Racial Killings Case

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Jan 25, 2007 10:15 am US/Central

Ex-Deputy Arraigned In 1964 Racial Killings Case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ― A 71-year-old suspect in a four-decades-old cold case has pleaded not-guilty to two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

James Seale was arraigned in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, in connection with the 1964 deaths of two black hitchhikers.

Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19, were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Seale was named in a federal indictment stemming from the teens' disappearance and deaths while they were hitchhiking in a rural area east of Natchez.

A second suspect is said to be cooperating with authorities.

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