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Man, hung him in a tree. Who would do something this hideous . In my vision, a brownskinned man in a gray casket, i couldnt tell who he was. And thats when i began to call all my children. When i think about the hurt my mom went through, i cant talk about it. The mobile Police Department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. But they did. The fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the Police Officers found more to ...

man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> in my vision, a brown-skinned man in a gray casket, i couldnt tell who he was. and thats when i began to call all my children. >> when i think about the hurt my mom went through, i cant talk about it. >> the mobile police department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. >> the fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the police o...

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Nooses everywhere they could in mobile. and my mom would say to me, dont you go there because you know people are looking at you. and i would tell her, i dont care. and shed be like, yes, you do care. dont you care? you got your children to raise. but i wasnt fearful of that. i felt like nothing man could do to me now would affect me as much as michaels death affected me. >> im a strong believer. i dont know about man, but i know what god can do. >> theres a difference between what you know and ...

>> theres a difference between what you know and what you can prove. the investigation was evolving. bob eddy was on the case. he was interviewing people. he never took his foot off the gas. agent bodman, under the direction of thomas figures, was out there interviewing klansmen. we knew who committed this crime. we, however, could not prove it without a break. >> i never once thought that i was not being looked at seriously as a suspect. law enforcement started to zero in on us more and more. >...

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First two episodes aired Sunday, last two coming April 18.

Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 At first, Cecelia Perry thought she knew what happened to her younger brother when he failed to return from a late-night trip to a service station on March 20, 1981. Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was thoughtful and responsible — working at night and watching Perry’s oldest son during the day. He’d been with Perry at another sister’s home in Mobile, Alabama, when he stepped out around 11 p.m. to pick up cigare...