Chevie Kehoe

Chevie O'Brien Kehoe (born January 29th, 1973 in Orange Park, Florida) was said to be a self-proclaimed white supremacist and convicted murderer currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of William Mueller and his family.

Early life

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 Chevie was an infant, his father moved the family to Madison County, North Carolina. In 1985 he moved the family again, this time near Deer Lake, in Washington. Three years later, Chevie, an honor student, and his younger brother Cheyne were both withdrawn from school so their parents could homeschool them.^[1]

Raised with increasingly extreme anti-government and white supremacist beliefs, Chevie Kehoe formed an ambitious plan to bring down the United States government with his self-styled "Aryan People's Republic" militia. In order to attract recruits, Kehoe embarked upon a series of property and firearms crimes that would eventually lead him from his home in eastern Washington State to Arkansas (the home of the Mueller family) as he followed gun show events. Meanwhile, Kehoe had married Karena Gumm, and the couple had 4 children, Kehoe also married Angie Settle, espousing that polygamy was an acceptable way to further the Aryan race.

Presently, Chevie Kehoe is fighting his conviction.

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

An independent radio documentary entitled Convicting Chevie Kehoe was released in 2005, suggesting that he had been wrongfully convicted.^[4]

References

1. ^ Eye On Hate: Domestic Terrorism 101 - The Kehoe Connection - By Nicole Nichols
2. ^ Kehoe takes plea deal
3. ^ "Inmate Locator: Chevie Kehoe". Federal Bureau of Prisons. http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Kehoe&Middle=&FirstName=Chevie&Race=&Sex=&Age=&x=0&y=0. Retrieved July 26, 2010. 
4. ^ Public Radio Exchange: Convicting Chevie Kehoe

External links

• Shootout in Ohio
• How an honor student became a white warrior

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