Law: Long Wait for Justice

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Goodman's parents were at the White House seeking help from President Lyndon Johnson when he received a call that the car had been found. Says Goodman's mother Carolyn Goodman, 89: "I knew [Andrew] was going into a world of risk, [that] he might end up in a jail somewhere." But not murdered. "If I were alone in a room with [Killen]," she says, "I would ask him what was on his mind" that night. "Could he tell me? Would it help him any?"

Neshoba County sheriff Larry Myers said last week that there would eventually be more arrests. "It's satisfying to know they got one," says Chaney's mother Fannie Chaney, 82, in New Jersey, "but they need to get 'em all." Said Billy Wayne Posey, one of those convicted in the 1967 federal trial: "This is like a nightmare." It's also a day of reckoning that mothers like Goodman and Chaney feel is long overdue. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/ Philadelphia and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York