Chevie Kehoe

Chevie Kehoe
Born Chevie O'Brien Kehoe
(1973-01-29) January 29, 1973
Mars Hill, North Carolina, United States
Criminal penalty 3 consecutive life sentences
Killings
Killed 3
Date apprehended
 June 17, 1997

Chevie O'Brien Kehoe[1][2] (born January 29, 1973, Mars Hill, North Carolina, United States)[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 after 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.[5]

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. 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. Meanwhile, Kehoe had married Karena Gumm,[6][7] and the couple had three[8][9] children.[10] Kehoe married a second wife, Angie Settle (also known as Angie Murray),[11][12][13][14] near Hayden Lake, Idaho, on July 9, 1993,[15] espousing that polygamy was a way to further the Aryan race.

Crimes

In February 1995, Kehoe and an accomplice, Daniel Lewis Lee, robbed the Tilly, Arkansas home of William Frederick Mueller, a gun dealer who had a large collection of weapons, ammunition and cash. Kehoe and Lee murdered Mueller, his wife Nancy Ann Mueller (nee' Branch), and his 8-year-old stepdaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell, and dumped their bodies in a swamp. Kehoe and his family took the stolen property to a motel in Spokane, Washington, by way of the Christian Identity community of Elohim City, Oklahoma.[16][17]

Kehoe and his brother Cheyne were involved in a 1997 shootout with an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper and a deputy sheriff in Wilmington, Ohio. The shootout was recorded on the trooper's dash cam and was widely broadcast.[18][19][20][21] Video from the dashboard camera of a patrolman's car was aired in 1997 on FOX's World's Scariest Police Shootouts.

In federal court Kehoe was charged with:[16]

Kehoe denies the criminal accusations against him and has filed appeals.[22][23] His appeals have been denied.[24][25][26]

Sentencing

On February 20, 1998, Kehoe pleaded guilty in Ohio state court 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.[27]

In 1999, Kehoe was convicted in federal court of the January 1996 murders of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife Nancy Mueller, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.[19][28][29] He received three sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Kehoe's mother Gloria and his younger brother Cheyne served as prosecution witnesses and testified against him at the trial. However, they both kept the secret until he got caught.[16][30][31][32][33] Daniel Lewis Lee was also convicted for his role in the Mueller murders, and was sentenced to death.

Kehoe is currently imprisoned at the Florence ADMAX USP, Colorado.[34] He is Federal Bureau of Prisons #21300-009.[35]

References

  1. ↑ "Trail of Death Follows White Supremacist Gang Led by Chevie Kehoe | Southern Poverty Law Center". Splcenter.org. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  2. ↑ "UNITED STATES v. KEHOE, No. 99-2897., November 08, 2002 - US 8th Circuit | FindLaw". Caselaw.findlaw.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  3. ↑ In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground - Mark S. Hamm - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  4. ↑ "White Supremacist's 1999 Murder Convictions Upheld". Swtimes.com. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  5. 1 2 "How an Honor Student Became a White Warrior - New York Times". Nytimes.com. 1999-12-12. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  6. ↑ "Shootout in Ohio: A Case Study of the Patriot Movement and Traffic Stops". Archive.adl.org. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  7. ↑ "Kehoe Note Talks Of Being 'Pretty Bad' Note To Wife Says 'We Made National News' - Spokesman Mobile - Nov. 21, 1997". M.spokesman.com. 1997-11-21. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  8. ↑ "Washington man faces federal firearms charges". Kitsap Sun. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  9. ↑ "Fugitive sought in Ohio shootouts faces new federal firearms charges". Apnewsarchive.com. 1997-02-25. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  10. ↑ "Local - The Enquirer - February 25, 1997". The Enquirer. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  11. ↑ Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents: The Identification of ... - Brent L. Smith - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ "Supremacists Sought After Ohio Gunbattle Northwest Pair Named In Warning Sent To Authorities Nationwide - Spokesman Mobile - Feb. 19, 1997". M.spokesman.com. 1997-02-19. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  14. ↑ "SPLCenter.org: A Woman's Place". Legacysplc.wwwsplcenter.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  15. ↑
  16. 1 2 3 "U.S. V. Kehoe". Leagle.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  17. ↑ "Killings Illuminate Culture of White Supremacists - New York Times". Nytimes.com. 1998-03-29. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  18. ↑ "Cheyne Kehoe Turns Himself In Brother Still On Run After Shootout With Ohio Troopers - Spokesman.com - June 17, 1997". Spokesman.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  19. 1 2 "Chevie Kehoe gets life for 3 murders". Enquirer.com. 1999-06-26. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  20. ↑ Sernoffsky, Evan (2012-12-04). "Serial killer reportedly connected to Kehoe brothers | KREM.com Spokane". Krem.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  21. ↑ "Suspect in February shootout faces extradition to Ohio". Deseret News. 1997-06-19. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  22. ↑ "Court affirms white supremacist's death sentence in Ark. slayings". Arkansas.news. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  23. ↑ "State V. Kehoe". Leagle.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  24. ↑ "Court rejects Chevie Kehoe appeal in triple killing". thv11.com. 2013-04-22. Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  25. ↑ Ap (2013-04-24). "The Courier - Your Messenger for the River Valley - Court rejects appeal in 1996 triple killing near Russellville". Couriernews.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  26. ↑ "Court rejects appeal in Arkansas triple killing - KATV - Breaking News, Weather and Razorback Sports". KATV. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  27. ↑ "Local - The Enquirer - February 21, 1998". The Enquirer. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  28. ↑ "Motive Offered For Death Plot Betrayal by Kin Blamed". News OK. 1999-04-01. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  29. ↑ "Defense begins of alleged white supremacists | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal". Lubbock Online. 1999-04-19. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  30. ↑ "Cheyne Kehoe tells Ark. court his brother bragged of killings". Enquirer.com. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  31. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19990408&id=riYuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2tAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4003,795882. Retrieved October 15, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19981112&id=KJAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7vEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1723,1137327. Retrieved October 15, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  33. ↑ "United States of America v. Chevie O'Brien Kehoe" (PDF). Justice.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  34. ↑ "Inmate Locator: Chevie Kehoe". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
  35. ↑ "Inmate Locator." Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on May 28, 2015.

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