Alex Rackley

Alex Rackley was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. In May 1969, because of a targeted smear campaign orchestrated by the FBI; which framed members of the BPP as being "undercover cops" to harm their image and cause infighting between members of the Black Panthers. Because of this, Rackley was suspected by other Panthers of being a police informant. He was brought to Panther headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut, held captive and tortured there for several days, condemned to death, taken to the wetlands of Middlefield, Connecticut, and murdered there.