 Almost immediately, 60 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation descended upon the town of Poplarville.In the two weeks following Parker’s death, the FBI questioned hundreds of potential witnesses and suspects.Several local Poplarville men, Jewel Alford, Christopher Columbus "Crip" Reyer, L. C. Davis, "Preacher" James Floren Lee, his son James Floren "Jeff" Lee, Herman Schultz, Arthur Smith and J.P. Walker, a former Pearl River County Sheriff’s deputy, who would be elected sheriff of Pearl River County in November 1963, quickly became the focus of the FBI’s intensive probe into the abduction and death of Parker.