Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river
Jason Dearen
Palatka, Fla. Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed on the floor; the man appeared dead, his shirt torn apart and his pants wet.
Puffy dark clouds blocked the sun as Moore greeted another man, who’d pulled up in a metallic blue sedan. They met behind an old fried chicken shack in rural north Florida.
“KIGY, my brother,” Moore said. It was shorthand for “Klansman, I greet you.”
Birds chirped in a tree overhead and traffic whooshed by on a nearby road, muddling the sound of their voices, which were being recorded secretly.
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Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river
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1of30A fisherman walks along a dock on the St. Johns River as a coal-fired power plant stands in the background, in Palatka, Fla., Wednesday, April 14, 2021. After months in a prison cell, Warren Williams longed to fish the St. Johns again. He looked forward to spending days outdoors in his landscaping job, and to writing poems and music in his free time.David Goldman/APShow MoreShow Less
2of30Latonya Crowley, mother of Warren Williams, stands for a portrait in Palatka, Fla., Thursday, April 22, 2021. An FBI probe revealed a murder plot against her son by klansmen working as prison guards where Williams was once an inmate. In the state of mind that he s in today. I don t see him getting better, Crowley says, as she and her son live today with uncertainty and paranoia. One of the guards imminent release and the specter of other klansmen have made it
Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river
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