Civil rights-era killings yield secrets to FBI probe - washingtonpost.com: Three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful. Investigators say they have solved most of the mysteries behind the cases, but few will result in indictments, given the passage of decades, the deaths of prime suspects and the challenge of gathering evidence.
'There's maybe five to seven cases where we don't know who did it,' said FBI Special Agent Cynthia Deitle, who is heading the bureau's effort. 'Some we know; others we know but can't prove. For every other case, we got it.'
Even without taking cases to court, the project has filled in broad gaps in the stories of the murdered, many of whom were forgotten victims from a brutal chapter of American history.
