Five months have passed since Thomas Moore made a memorable trip to Mississippi that resulted in the reopening of a case he hopes will solve his brother&8217;s murder.

But while attention to the 1960s deaths of Charles Moore and his friend Henry Dee has somewhat calmed down, Thomas Moore has been working day after day to keep their memory alive.

Miles away in Colorado, Moore is still working to bring justice for his brother and their friend, believed murdered by white supremacists in 1964.

&8220;I haven&8217;t slowed down a bit,&8221; Moore said last week. &8220;I am active every single day.&8221;

Moore hopes a new reward fund will help draw new attention to the case &8212; and new clues.

&8220;Money does open up people to talk about these things,&8221; Moore said.

Moore established the reward fund with the Mississippi Religious Leadership Council, a group of state religious leaders who also helped establish a reward fund in a case that led to the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen in the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County.

Moore also hopes the reward fund will simply get people talking about the case again.

&8220;It&8217;s going to regenerate it in people&8217;s minds,&8221; Moore said. &8220;I think it&8217;s going to be a positive thing.&8221;

Henry Dee and Charles Moore were murdered in May 1964 in Franklin County, when Klansmen allegedly lured the 19-year-olds into the woods, tied them to trees and beat them. Their bodies were found weeks later in the Mississippi River just south of Talullah, La., when authorities were searching for the three slain civil rights workers.

The FBI arrested two suspects in the case, but they were later released and never charged. According to reports, Charles Edwards told investigators he and suspect James Ford Seale only beat Moore and Dee and left them alive in a field. Seale was also questioned but apparently refused to answer any questions.Both suspects are still alive.

Thomas Moore was not in Mississippi when his brother was killed, and in the years after he stayed away from the case at his mother&8217;s request.

But as other civil rights-era murders were solved, Moore began to think justice could be served for Charles and Henry, too.

In 1998, District Attorney Ronnie Harper reopened the case, although his office lacked the resources to get very far in the investigation.

This year, just after Killen was convicted in the Neshoba murders, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton pledged his help.

And Moore has also had help in turning attention to the case from a Canadian film director.

David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Company accompanied Moore on a trip home to Franklin County.

That trip buoyed Moore&8217;s hopes that the case would finally be solved, and Moore said he is grateful for the attention Ridgen has brought to the story.

Moore said that, although he is several states away, he is researching the case every day.

&8220;I&8217;m just following up on some leads in some of the documents I have, doing computer research,&8221; he said. &8220;I&8217;m trying to find out who&8217;s still alive.&8221;

Moore has also been lobbying for passage of a cold case bill that would create a new office in the U.S. Justice Department to investigate and prosecute civil rights-era murders.

The bill has passed the U.S. Senate, but efforts have not yet been successful to get it passed in the House.

Moore is also hoping to get contributions to the reward fund.

The Killen case fund reached $100,000, and tips sent in because of it may have helped bring a conviction in that case.

Anyone interested in contributing to the Dee-Moore fund can mail checks made out to &8220;The MRLC Moore-Dee Reward Fund&8221; to Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference, P.O. Box 68123, Jackson, MS 39268-8123.

Anyone with any information about the murders of Charles Moore and Henry Dee can call the FBI at 601-948-5000 or call the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol at 601-987-1560.

Lampton told the Associated Press he is hoping to get help in the case from outtakes of a 1998 &8220;20/20&8221; interview with former Klansman and FBI informant Earnest Gilbert.

&8216;&8216;We&8217;ve all looked at that interview and we&8217;re going to try to determine if there were any of what they call outtakes, which means anything that (Connie Chung) may have asked him that didn&8217;t appear in the news,&8217;&8217; Lampton told The Associated Press.

Lampton said he will not let go of the Dee-Moore case.

&8216;&8216;I&8217;m going to be on this until the day I die,&8221; he told AP.

Moore will never give up either. He keeps a picture of his brother at his Colorado Springs house, and just looking at it is inspiration.

&8220;Every time I think I&8217;m getting tired, I just say, &8216;Oh, no, no, no,&8217;&8221; Moore said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.