In 2007 , Linda Schiro testified in an unrelated court case that her late boyfriend , Gregory Scarpa , a '' capo '' in the Colombo family , had been recruited by the FBI to help find the bodies of three civil rights workers who had been murdered in Mississippi in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan . She said that she had been with Scarpa in Mississippi at the time and had witnessed him being given a gun , and later a cash payment , by FBI agents . She testified that Scarpa had threatened a Klansman by placing a gun in the Klansman 's mouth , forcing the Klansman to reveal the location of the bodies . Similar stories of Mafia involvement in recovering the bodies had been circulating for years , and had been previously published in the New York '' Daily News '' , but had never before been introduced in court
murdered in Mississippi
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
American Mafia