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...bodies out in the desert and a satchel full of $2.4 million in very hot cash. After some mental hand wringing, Moss takes the money and runs, knowing that whoever set up the deal will probably come after both it and him. "It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?" a local deputy says of the situation. Comes the world-weary reply: "If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here...
...valley. In town after town, schools have been boarded up, and the only preserved building is the American Legion post. These parts have so emptied that a turtle crossing the street has a decent shot at getting to the other side uninterrupted. Entire city blocks sell for $100 at sheriff's auctions, only to be abandoned, tax delinquent and on the block again a few years later...
Holstered pistols and blackjacks humped against their hips and red mud clung to their boots as Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Cecil Price got out of their squad car and walked into the Philadelphia, Miss., courthouse one chill morning last week. Just back from a dawn search for a moonshine still in backwoods country, neither seemed to notice four men in trench coats waiting in cars parked near the courthouse...
Moments after the lawmen entered their office, the four FBI agents left their cars, went into the courthouse, quietly told Rainey and Price they were under arrest. Unsurprised, the sheriff removed his pistol and badge, handed his keys to his secretary. Then Rainey and Price walked out with the agents, down through a cursing gauntlet of local rednecks who had gathered as soon as they spotted the FBI men, now as familiar as neighbors after months of work in the area. The crowd knew perfectly well that at last the long-awaited event had occurred: Neshoba County...
Back at Work. Within hours after the arrests, U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter fixed bond at $5,000 for those charged with the rights violation, and at $3,500 for the other two. All of them quickly posted it. Price and Rainey were back at work in the Neshoba County sheriff's office that afternoon...