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By MARY K. BLEWITT
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writer
The FBI and the Department of Justice abandoned the investigation of the alleged Ku Klux Klan-related murders of as many as 20 blacks in the Washington area during the 1960s, after their source of information failed a third lie-detector test last week.
Edward Allen See, a Nevada prison inmate, sparked an investigation by the FBI, the Justice Department and the State Police when he related that a band of teens connected with the Ku Klux Klan tortured and murdered blacks, randomly seized off the streets in D.C. and neighboring counties, and then buried them on a Fauquier County farm.
The story, which was first reported on FOX Television Oct. 25, ignited a brush fire of discussion within the county as to whether such a crime could have occurred without anyone’s knowledge.
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