Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
By Any Means: The True Story of Greg Scarpa, Mississippi's Civil Rights Murders, and the Hunt for the Truth

By Any Means: The True Story of Greg Scarpa, Mississippi's Civil Rights Murders, and the Hunt for the Truth

Rutledge, Dustin

Paperback

Biographies GeneralTrue Crime

ISBN13: 9798194491568
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when the people sworn to uphold the law decide they need help from a man who lives outside it?

In the violent Mississippi of the 1960s, the struggle for civil rights came at a terrible cost. Activists disappeared. Families were shattered. Communities lived under intimidation and fear. And as investigators struggled to penetrate a culture of silence surrounding some of the era's most notorious crimes, an unlikely figure entered the story: Greg Scarpa, a Mafia enforcer who also worked as an FBI informant.

By Any Means tells the extraordinary and deeply unsettling story of Scarpa's involvement in the FBI's Mississippi investigations and the civil-rights murders that shook America. It is a story of courage and fear, justice and compromise, and the uncomfortable choices made when conventional methods seemed incapable of uncovering the truth.

At the center are some of the most haunting questions of the era: Could a Mafia hitman succeed where law enforcement could not? How much did Scarpa really know? What role did he play in the search for missing civil-rights workers? And where does documented history end and legend begin?

Behind the headlines are the human stories-the families waiting for loved ones who would never come home, activists who risked everything for equality, investigators confronting a wall of resistance, and communities forced to live with violence that could not simply be forgotten.

The story also raises a question that remains uncomfortable today: How far should the pursuit of justice go when the system itself appears unable to deliver it?

Now enter the dangerous world where organized crime, the FBI, and the civil-rights movement collided. Turn the page and follow Greg Scarpa into the heart of Mississippi's darkest mysteries. Examine the evidence, confront the contradictions, and discover the truth behind the man who was willing to go by any means.

Also from

Rutledge, Dustin

View All

Also in

True Crime

View All