Midnight Murders on Rock Cut Road: Racism, Terrorism, Forensics, Reconstruction

A detailed history of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. FBI documents, participant confessions, newspaper articles, and FBI photos are used to construct the history. A complete forensic analysis is performed based on the original autopsy and the FBI Lab Report. A visual reconstruction with photos taken by the author is used to show events on that day.

- Biography of Mickey Schwerner up to his arrival in Meridian

- Meridian activities that led to the elimination order

- The murder, the burial and the search for the bodies

- Activities at 35 locations on the day of the murders,

using new high-res scans of the FBI Investigation photos

- Forensic analysis of the original autopsy, the FBI Lab report

and a recently discovered post autopsy radiology report

- Evaluation of the rumors of the murders of Goodman, Chaney

- Identification of all 35 locations by latitude, longitude

- Visual reconstruction using photos taken by the author

at all 35 locations: who, what, when, where, how, why