More than 20 years later , Jerry Mitchell , an award-winning investigative reporter for '' The Clarion-Ledger '' in Jackson , Mississippi , wrote extensively about the case for six years . Mitchell helped to secure convictions in other high-profile Civil Rights Era murder cases , including the assassination of Medgar Evers , the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing , and the murder of Vernon Dahmer . Mitchell assembled new evidence regarding the murders of the three civil rights workers . He also located new witnesses and pressured the state to take action . Assisting Mitchell were high school teacher Barry Bradford and a team of three students from Illinois
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Edgar Ray Killen