Editing Edgar Ray Killen (section)

{{Villain Infobox
|image = Edgar Ray Killen Mugshot.jpg
|fullname = Edgar Ray Killen
|origin = Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S.
|occupation = Sawmill operator<br>Baptist minister<br>[[Ku Klux Klan]] recruiter
|goals = Kill James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (succeeded)
|crimes = [[Murder]]<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Lynching]]<br>Civil rights violations
|type of villain = Xenophobic Mass Murderer}}
'''Edgar Ray Killen''' (January 17, 1925 - January 11, 2018) was an American white supremacist and [[Ku Klux Klan]] recruiter convicted of instigating the 1964 [[Freedom Summer murders]]. Killen had assembled a lynch mob which abducted and murdered civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Killen escaped conviction in a 1966 Federal trial for violating the victims civil rights, but was convicted for his role in the murders in a state court 41 years later in 2005.