Cecil Price, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cecil Price

American police officer

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1938

Place of Birth: Flora, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 06-May-2001

Profession: civil servant, police officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Cecil Ray Price (April 15, 1938 – May 6, 2001) committed the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964.
At the time of the murders, he was 26 years old and a deputy sheriff in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.Although he was never charged with the murders, Price was convicted in October 1967 of violating the civil rights of the three victims.
He was sentenced to a six-year prison term and served four and a half years at the Sandstone Federal Penitentiary in Minnesota.
Following his release from prison he returned to Philadelphia, Mississippi and worked a variety of jobs.
Cecil Price died following a fall from a piece of equipment at his job on May 6, 2001.