Murders at Mer Rouge

In 1922 Louisiana, at the height of the Ku Klux Klan's power, two white men who dared to speak against the Klan vanished from the small plantation town of Mer Rouge. Four months later, their mutilated bodies emerged-igniting outrage that reached the governor's desk and shook the nation.

The Murders at Mer Rouge unravels the explosive true story behind those disappearances: a network of Klan intimidation, political corruption, and a cover-up designed to protect violent men in power. As state ...