 After Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner failed to return to Meridian, Mississippi on time, workers for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) placed calls to the Neshoba County jail, asking if the police had any information on their whereabouts.Two days later, FBI agent John Proctor and ten others agents began their investigation in Neshoba County.They received a tip about a burning CORE station wagon seen in the woods off of Highway 21, about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.