A federal jury found James Ford Seale guilty of helping kidnap and murder two 19-year-old men, Henry Dee and Charles Moore, in 1964. The families of the victims expressed relief and closure after over 40 years since the crime. Thomas Moore, Charles' brother, had tried for a decade to get the case prosecuted. Thelma Collins, Dee's sister, had never told her children about her brother's death until recently. Both families felt justice had been served by the American legal system with this verdict.

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For families of victims, closure after conviction The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) June 15, 2007
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HEADLINE: For families of victims, closure after conviction
BYLINE: LaRaye Brown laraye.brown@clarionledger.com
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Her brother's death at the hands of hate was the family secret Thelma Collins never talked about,
refusing even to tell her 12 children until a year ago.
"I didn't want my children to know it," she said of her kids, who range in age from 37 to 58. "I wanted
my children to live a happy life. Ididn't want my children to come up hating nobody about nothing like
that."
But on Thursday, she acknowledged her loss. Her tears began flowing the moment the clerk read the
verdict.
Forty-three years after her brother, Henry Dee, and his friend, Charles Moore, both 19, were kidnapped,
beaten and drowned, a federal jury on Thursday found James Ford Seale guilty of helping commit the
crime.
"Right now, Ijust thank God,"Collins said, clutching a white handkerchief. "I never thought I would have
seen it."
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Thomas Moore, Charles' brother, didn't cry.
"This is the American justice system working,"he said as he exited the courtroom.
"With the evidence that was provided, it was, in my opinion, the next thing,"he said of the guilty verdict.
The victims' families had walked into the courtroom seconds before the verdict was read.
Seale's family members, who were seated behind him, sat quietly as a clerk pronounced him guilty.
After the verdict was read, Moore, who had tried for almost a decade to get authorities to find and
prosecute his brother's killers, strolled confidently from the fourth-floor courtroom toward a barrage of
reporters, waiting on the building's front steps. Along the way, he stopped to talk with Collins.
"You might as well come on, let's hug now,"Moore said, extending his arms to Collins.
Collins, who was still wiping her tears as her daughter rubbed her shoulder, walked more slowly.
"All these years, I never would have thought that it would come to this," she said.
She was in her 20s when Mazie Moore, Charles' mother, knocked on her door in Albany, La. Local law
enforcement had told Mazie Moore the young men had gone to Collins' home in Louisiana.
They had not.
Collins, now 71, the same age as Seale, was home alone when she saw on television two bodies pulled
from the Mississippi River near Tallulah, La.
"Iknew it was him," she said.
Donna Collins, who was born after her uncle's death, was at her mother's side during the trial.
"It's a big relief," she said. "I just got tired of hearing (my mother) cry."
Dee's other sister, Mary Byrd, recently had surgery and was unable to make it to court after jury
selection.
"I feel good now,"Byrd, 66, said talking on the phone from Natchez.
Thomas Moore said he will visit his brother's grave today and place a permanent marker on Mississippi
84 where his brother was abducted May 2, 1964.
"I want the world to know that Mississippi spoke tonight. ... The jury is from Mississippi and I hope
every citizen of Mississippi (and) Franklin County can rest tonight with the veil of shame off their
eyes,"said Moore, who lives in Colorado Springs. "Inow feel that Mississippi is my home - that, I would
not own up to, even (as) of last night."
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To comment on this story, call LaRaye Brown at (601) 961-7280.
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