# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-ray-killen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:16:07.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-ray-killen"
name: "Edgar Ray Killen"
slug: "edgar-ray-killen"
description: "Edgar Ray Killen was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He died in prison on January 11, 2018, at age 93."
tagline: "Former Ku Klux Klan organizer convicted of three counts of manslaughter (1925-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edgar_Ray_Killen_Mugshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1925-01-17"
deathDate: "2018-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             25
  historical:           10.241268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إدغار راي كيلن"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump