虽然嫌疑人数十年来一直处于逍遥法外的状态，但民权活动者表示，实施私刑的双重动机在整个城镇都是众所周知的：政治和性。
Though the suspects have remained at large for decades, civil rights activists say the twin motivations for the lynchings were always well known throughout town: politics and sex.