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unsuccessful. . Bob Eddy, lead investigator for then-Attor- ney General Bill Baxley’s probe into the Bir- mingham church bombing in 1977, said Alex- ander was not a prominent suspect in the case. “T know of nothing that connects him with the church bombing,” he said. “There were a lot of names and a lot of people questioned. But I'm not really surprised by anything a Klan member might say.” In October 1988, Gary A. Tucker, a termi- nally il} patient at the VA Hospital in Tusca- 4 told FR? agents that he had bombed the Birmingham church and named an accom- plice. But an inquiry by state and federal agents indicated the claim was full of contra- dictions and impossibilities. Tucker died in January 1989. Morris Dees. founder and chief trial counse! Inns 1005 ab ne Nad DOM’ tae for the Southern Poverty Law Center, who is representing Edwards’ survivors, said he wants to know at what point Alexander be- came an FBI informant. Dees said he was con- tacted by FBI officials in Washington, who want to talk to him when they come to Mont- gomery next week, Dees said Alexander might have been in- volved in the Jan. 30, 1956, bombing of the home of Martin Luther King Jr., who had emerged as the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott. Dees said there were also four Montgomery churches and two homes bombed on the night of Jan. 10, 1957, and a Klansman who was ar- rested gave a statement that Alexander was involved. “All this was before Willie Ed- wards was killed,” he said. Alexander also was arrested and indicted on a charge of placing a bomb at King’s home that did not detonate, as well as shooting a pistol into an integrated bus and wounding a pregnant black woman. But he was never convicted. “We're looking into the allegation about the barrel killing,” Dees said. “But I think it is also interesting about the claim that Alexander was involved in the Birmingham church bombing.” In 1976 Alexander and three other men were indicted as a result of Baxley’s investigation on murder charges in Edwards’ death. The indictments were brought af- ter Alexander's first wife, Edna, told of hearing her husband and other men bragging about making the truck driver jump into the river.