Michael Thompson (Aryan Brotherhood)

Michael Thompson (Aryan Brotherhood)

Michael Thompson is a leader in the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang.[1][2] He has been in prison since 1973, and has been sentenced to additional life terms for crimes committed behind bars.[1]

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Background

Michael Thompson was born October 14, 1941 in Bakersfield, California, coming from a Native American background. He stands almost 6 feet, 4 inches (192 cm) tall and has a massive figure. He was a former High school football star. Contrary to some reports, Michael was never a troubled teenager,[citation needed] but his mother's boyfriend didn't want all seven of her children. The two systematically started to place the children elsewhere, and Michael was put in a boy's home. His sister was sent to an orphanage, and later put up for adoption. His older sisters were pregnant and married by the time they were 16, and his older brother was forced to enlist in the military by his mother, who had forged his birth date.

Thompson moved from the boy's home to a foster home, which was a working horse ranch in Orange County, California. He attended Villa Park High School, where he excelled in football and was an A-B student. A family took him in and mentored him, and he became the first to graduate high school in his immediate family.

After high school, Thompson attended Orange Community College. At 19, he married a woman twelve years his senior, a go-go dancer and bartender at a local bar. Through her, he was introduced to a dangerous new crowd; she got Thompson a job as a bodyguard for a drug dealer. He later killed two other drug dealers with a ball-peen hammer, and was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder. He claimed this was to prevent an assassination plot against his boss, but it is generally believed that he wanted to be with the wife of one of his intended victims. In fact, he did marry Patricia Nunley, the widow of one of his victims, before she discovered he had murdered her husband.

Informant

Thompson later became an informant against the Aryan Brotherhood after another AB member, Curtis Price, killed the father, wife and friend of an AB informant named Steven Barnes. Thompson was appalled by the lack of respect shown by the organization to their fellow member, and started cooperating with the FBI. Thompson's name was subsequently put "in the hat," which is AB code for placing his name on their kill-list.[3]

Though still in prison, Thompson has spent the past twenty years working with authorities in their efforts to clamp down on the activities of the AB. As well as testifying against AB members in court, he has given lectures and written documents on the activities of the Brotherhood. Thompson is sentenced to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole, and will spend the rest of his life in protective custody sections of California prisons.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b David Grann. "The Brand". The New Yorker. http://kellyaward.com/mk_award_popup/pdf/grann.pdf. Retrieved 5 June 2007. 
  2. ^ Matt Dellinger. "Murder in Maximum Security". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/02/16/040216on_onlineonly01?currentPage=1. Retrieved 5 June 2007. 
  3. ^ THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CURTIS FLOYD PRICE, Defendant and Appellant
  4. ^ United States v. Barry Byron Mills, et al.

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