Suspected Klansman arrested over 'Mississippi Burning' murders

More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the US civil rights era – the “Freedom Summer” killings of three young civil rights workers - a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested on murder charges in the case.

Sheriff Larry Myers said that Edgar Ray Killen was arrested at his Mississippi home. Myers said there would be more arrests in connection with the killings, which were dramatised in the 1988 movie “Mississippi Burning.”