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Retired Agent Works Cold Cases

Agent James Ingram was on the case when three civil rights activists were found dead in Mississippi in 1964. The same summer, he was there when the bodies of two murdered black men were pulled from a river. Forty years later and well into retirement, he's tracking down leads on decades-old crimes.
 

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