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This file concerns a Justice Department-requested civil rights inquiry into whether Joseph Paul Franklin was connected to a 1977 double homicide in Madison, Wisconsin. The released records span 1977 evidence references and FBI communications and reports from November to December 1980. They include Milwaukee and Salt Lake City airtels, a Madison Police Department report, negative local arrest-record checks, and the transfer of hairs recovered from a black felt hat near the shooting scene to the FBI Laboratory. Justice Department memoranda directed the FBI to seek comparison hair samples from Franklin, including material potentially seized after his September 1980 arrest in Florence, Kentucky.

FBI file number: 44-85081 | Documents span: 1977-1980 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Joseph Paul Franklin, Theodore Tracy Fields, David Loren Martin, Alphonse Manning Jr., Toni Schwenn, Drew S. Days
Subjects: civil rights, homicide, Madison, Wisconsin, forensic evidence, hair comparison