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By MARY K. BLEWITT
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writer
The Virginia State Police, the FBI and the Justice Department are investigating a bizarre tale told by a Nevada state prison inmate who said that a Fauquier County field served as a secret burial site for about 20 blacks from Washington, D.C., and surrounding counties who were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the 1960s.
However, long-time Fauquier residents remain skeptical that such a happening could take place without anyone’s knowledge.
Edward Allen See, 43, said in an interview with the Fauquier Times-Democrat that in the early ’60s that about 15 teenagers, including some from Fauquier County, seized blacks of all ages randomly off the streets and murdered them. The victims came from Georgia and D.C. and the surrounding counties, including the communities of Culpeper, Manassas and Front Royal, according to See.
They were “hung, shot, tortured — anyway you can imagine,” he said, and then buried in Fauquier.
See is serving two consecutive life sentences for the strangulation murders of two females in Las Vegas in 1979, according to Cheryl Foster, a Nevada corrections spokesperson, and is serving an additional 15year term for taking hostages during an attempted prison escape.
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