Joseph Edwards, missing since 1964, is believed to have been murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen and sheriff’s deputies. His case is thought to be the only one investigated by the FBI and Justice Department during the Civil Rights era in which the body has never been found. (Concordia Sentinel photo)
Six decades after a Louisiana man’s disappearance and presumed murder, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury.
Carl Ray Thompson, then 26, spotted his cousin’s two-toned Buick on the side of the Ferriday-Vidalia highway as he sat in the back of a sheriff’s car in July 1964.
His cousin, Joseph “Joe-Ed” Edwards, had gone missing just a couple days prior, his family le...
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