Judge Sends Convicted Killer, 80, Back to Prison
A Philadelphia judge sent Edgar Ray Killen back to prison after finding that the former Ku Klux Klan leader, convicted in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, was in better health than the court had been told.
Four law enforcement officers and a convenience store owner testified that they had seen Killen driving around town. At a hearing in August, the 80-year-old sawmill owner and preacher had testified that he was in constant pain and confined to a wheelchair.
Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon revoked the $600,000 bond that had allowed Killen to remain free while appealing his manslaughter convictions.
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