Mississippi Past Continues to Haunt It Present Day

by NASCARLUCY

A movie is made about two women one white, one African-American Civil Rights activists, both were accused of murders they didn't commit. One was lynched, the other was put in prison.

6. Chapter 6

Five years had passed. The murders had not been solved nor had the arson case been solved. Lila had not been back to Mississippi since. This was the longest amount of time that she had ever been out of the state. She visited about twice a year prior to the murders. No one in her family lived in Mississippi. The ones who were still alive lived elsewhere.

A lot of things had happened. Congressman Stickman had been forced to resign over the sex scandal. His wife later divorced him and Sally Hatcher ended up spending five years in a federal prison for wiretapping. The Congressman had basically gotten away with the crime (he was involved in the wiretapping and had the means to do it) and had basically pointed the finger at Sally. He was believed and she wasn't.

Lila and Reid had tried marriage but it didn't work out for them. While married, they had another child, a son named Daniel. They had a long distance relationship which worked out fine.

The murder of Nathan and Mark was something that really eats at Reid. The killer wasn't found and the FBI started to feel the political heat from it. The FBI was accused by some as not trying hard enough to find the killer due to the sexual orientation of the victims. Hotch stated the police department in Oxen had fully cooperated with them and had not left any stone unturned.

Hotch never told the public that his office received a card on the anniversary of the killings taunting them for not finding the killer. It was a very frustrating case. It had been profiled on America's Most Wanted and on Unsolved Mysteries but no good leads had panned out.

Twenty years later

The murders were finally solved. The son of Congressman Stickman also with two other men had committed the murders. Nathan and Mark had been abducted while shopping in Jackson and had been taken out to an isolated area where they were beaten severely and then shot in the head. The bodies had been left in the isolated area and then later taken away in a stolen car that was taken back to their residence.

After Reid put her under hypnosis, Lila remembered being awakened around 11:00 p.m. by a car down slamming. She looked out the window from her bed and saw someone get out of the car and walk down the block. The man Walter Stickman was the son of Congressman Stickman. She was so tired that she went back to bed. Walter later thought that she might have seen something and started sending her threatening letter.