I found out about someone late last night all because of some innocent Googling...I'll try to keep this as short as I can but some back story is important IMO...
In my teens, 20s, and 30s, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to hunt some very Hallowed property in the MS/LA area. A friend of mine was a member of a hunting club established on this property and I would go quite often as his guest.
The owner of this property was the consumate Southern man. Larger than life, cordial, polite, but tough and hard edged when need be...what, as a teen, I perceived as a man's man....for sake of this post I'll call him Mr.X.
Now Mr. X wasn't always on the property as he lived a couple hours away, so his son actually ran the day to day business....but, I fondly remember when Mr. X would show up....and all the other members, all grown men with status in their respective communities....would go out of their way to greet Mr. X, shake his hand, and basically fawn all over him.
Now Mr, X died in the 90s doing what he loved...working on his land
Fast fwd to last night. My friend had gotten out of this club several years ago and he and I had grown apart..he had gotten married had kids, etc....
But I was curious about that property last night... after all, I had spent MANY wonderful days there....so I googled Mr.X and his son in search of any info on the property...and I found Mr.X....in an investigative article about a reopened cold case where two black teens were murdered by the KKK in 1964.
Seems the two terms were hitchhiking in 1964 and we're picked up by a cpl of local KKKs in a town near Mr.Xs home. These kluckers tied the teens to a tree and mercilessly beat them until they thought they were dead.
Having to now deal with the supposedly dead bodies, the kluckers called another klucker to help with the disposal....THAT klucker turned out to be Mr.X.
The bodies were loaded into the tarp lined trunk of an old car that Mr.X had owned and driven away to that property Mr.X owned. ...they were then loaded in a boat to be dumped in the river.
But Mr. X and his partner noticed something...the two teens were actually still alive. Not wanting to get any more blood in the boat by shooting the teens first....weights were unceremoniously tied to them and they were thrown overboard alive.
Now all this was told by an FBI informant describing what was told to him....but there were enough internet articles telling the ssme story so I believe it to be true...and the partner was convicted of the murders in 2007.
But it blows my mind now...just finding all of this out...and that place I just adored for so many years....has instantly lost its luster....and that man I looked up to...isn't who I thought he was....to the point of actually turning my stomach.
Have you ever had any thing similar happen?
Edited by
RebelArcher
on Thu 10/20/16 10:12 AM