The Civil Rights Division launched this website to make information about the Justice Department’s investigation of unsolved homicides—or “cold cases”—from the Civil Rights Era more accessible to the public. The Department has been pursuing justice in these horrific cases for years—from assisting in prosecuting Edgar Ray Killen in 2005, making him the eighth defendant convicted … Continue reading The Department of Justice’s Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute Unsolved Civil Rights Era Homicides