The FBI is investigating 26 unsolved civil-rights era cases out of nearly 100 referred to the bureau over the last year, according to Director Robert Mueller.
In a statement on Tuesday, Muelller offered the first details about the FBI's efforts to reopen decades-old civil-rights cases since the successful prosecution last summer of a Ku Klux Klansman for his role in the 1964 abduction and killing of two black teenagers.
Of the more than 100 unsolved cases referred to the FBI early last year, Mueller said 95 of them were sent to investigators in 17 field offices around the country. Ultimately, 52 cases were opened and 26 of those were being reviewed by the Justice Department "to determine if additional investigation is necessary," he said.
"For those cases in which we can move forward, we will," he added.
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