Chevie Kehoe
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Chevie Kehoe | |
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| Born | Chevie O'Brien Kehoe January 29, 1973 Orange Park, Florida, U.S. |
| Criminal penalty | 3 consecutive life sentences |
| Details | |
| Killed | 3 |
Date apprehended | June 17, 1997 |
Chevie O'Brien Kehoe[1][2] (born January 29, 1973 in Orange Park, Florida)[3] is a self-proclaimed white supremacist and convicted murderer serving three consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of William Mueller and his family.[4]
Early life and education
Kehoe, the oldest of eight sons born to Kirby and Gloria Kehoe, was named for his father's favorite brand of automobile (Chevrolet). His father had served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. When Kehoe was an infant, his father moved the family to Madison County, North Carolina.
In 1985, Kirby moved the family again, this time to near Deep Lake in Stevens County, Washington. Kehoe entered Colville Junior High School as a ninth grader in 1987 where he was an honor student.[5] In 1988, his parents pulled him and his younger brother Cheyne out of public school, and from then on they were home-schooled.[6][7]
Raised with increasingly extreme anti-government and white supremacist beliefs, Kehoe formed an ambitious plan to bring down the United States government with his self-styled "Aryan People's Republic" militia.[citation needed] To attract recruits, Kehoe embarked upon a series of firearms and property crimes that would eventually lead him from his home in Eastern Washington to Arkansas (the home of the Mueller family) as he followed gun show events.[citation needed] Meanwhile, Kehoe had married Karena Gumm,[8][9] and the couple had had three[10][11] children.[12] In 1993, Kehoe married a second wife Angie Settle (also known as Angie Murray),[13][14][15][16] espousing that polygamy was a way to further the Aryan race.[citation needed]
Kehoe denies the criminal accusations against him[citation needed]. Presently, Kehoe is fighting his conviction.[citation needed]
Trial and incarceration
On February 20, 1998, Kehoe pleaded guilty to felonious assault, attempted murder, and carrying a concealed weapon related to a February 15, 1997 shootout in Wilmington, Ohio with an Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper and a Clinton County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop resulting from expired tags on his 1977 Chevrolet Suburban.[17] Video from the dashboard camera of the patrolman's car was aired in 1997 on FOX's World's Scariest Police Shootouts.
In 1999, Kehoe was convicted of the murders of the gun dealer William Mueller and his family. He received three sentences of life imprisonment without parole. Kehoe's mother and his younger brother Cheyne served as prosecution witnesses and testified against him at the trial. Kehoe is presently serving his sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia.[18]
References
- ^ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1998/fall/kehoe-republic
- ^ http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-8th-circuit/1342871.html
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=d2gOgLjIQGIC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=chevie+o'brien+kehoe&source=bl&ots=5_pNPxPqEw&sig=n7DzljvczEZmPm-dzo-U7h7peYE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5cddUuX7AY2jkQfJzoHYDA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=chevie%20o'brien%20kehoe&f=false
- ^ http://swtimes.com/sections/news/state-news/white-supremacist’s-1999-murder-convictions-upheld.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/us/how-an-honor-student-became-a-white-warrior.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/us/how-an-honor-student-became-a-white-warrior.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
- ^ Eye On Hate: Domestic Terrorism 101 - The Kehoe Connection - By Nicole Nichols
- ^ http://archive.adl.org/mwd/shootout.asp
- ^ http://m.spokesman.com/stories/1997/nov/21/kehoe-note-talks-of-being-pretty-bad-note-to-wife/
- ^ http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/1997/feb/26/washington-man-faces-federal-firearms-charges/?print=1
- ^ http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1997/Fugitive-sought-in-Ohio-shootouts-faces-new-federal-firearms-charges/id-f31ce0afbb52d6b74fc003c8b096ba81
- ^ http://enquirer.com/editions/1997/02/25/loc_shootout.html
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=D4N52gLe46oC&pg=RA2-PA14&lpg=RA2-PA14&dq=chevie+kehoe+angie+settle&source=bl&ots=Edhcd7XPdp&sig=Jkfaa_Wjod3ZkuGOa2YwdRVlhxI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_sZdUuPTLcbKkQfLrICgAg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=chevie%20kehoe%20angie%20settle&f=false
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19970219&id=LrsyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m_EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5355,5459754
- ^ http://m.spokesman.com/stories/1997/feb/19/supremacists-sought-after-ohio-gunbattle/
- ^ http://legacysplc.wwwsplcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=337
- ^ Kehoe takes plea deal
- ^ "Inmate Locator: Chevie Kehoe". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
External links
"A Voice for Chevie Kehoe"
- American white nationalists
- American people convicted of murder
- 1973 births
- Living people
- People from Clay County, Florida
- Christian Identity
- American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
- People convicted of murder by the United States federal government
- Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government
- People from Madison County, North Carolina
- People from Stevens County, Washington
- American murderers