The Federal Bureau of Investigation Wednesday (5 August) pressed its search for the killers of three Civil Rights workers whose bodies were found Tuesday under a mound of dirt on a farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Police threw up roadblocks to keep the curious away from the spot on the farm of Olen Burrage, 42, where the bodies were found in a shallow grave about three feet deep, under 20 feet of dirt that had been pushed up by a bulldozer to form a dam for a pond.

The FBI apparently knew exactly where to dig, giving rise to the belief they had received information from an informer in return for a large reward--possibly $25,000.

The bodies were identified by fingerprints and dental records as those of Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, both white and both of New York City, and James Chaney, a 21-year-old Meriden, Mississippi Negro.