Domestic Terrorism 101-The Kehoe Connection

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Domestic Terrorism 101 - The Kehoe Connection
(The Family That Prays Together...)
By Nicole Nichols

It has long been said that "The family who prays together stays together." The Kehoe family certainly prayed together. They prayed for a race war. They prayed for ethnic cleansing. And they prayed for a white homeland. We might guess, however, that they also believed the old adage, "God helps those who help themselves," because the Kehoe's helped themselves - they planned on building an all white homeland...by any means necessary.

Kirby and Gloria Kehoe gave birth to their first son on January 19, 1973 and they named

him Chevie because that was Kirby's favorite car. Four years later they had another son, Cheyne. The Kehoe's gave their sons a solid "religious" foundation. Both Kirby and Gloria ascribed to the Christian Identity religion and made certain that their children were steeped in the same - six other boys were later born to the Kehoe's. Kirby was a Viet Nam veteran with an extreme hatred of the United States government. Consequently, Christian Identity, white supremacism and the militia mind-set suited him well.

Living on the fringe, as so many white supremacists do, the Kehoe family was, for the most part, itinerant. The children grew up immersed in the paranoia and suspicions of Kirby Kehoe. School friends were never welcome at their home largely because Kirby trusted no one and he and Gloria had their own little patch of marijuana growing out back. Viciously anti-Semitic and racist Chevie has quoted his father as saying, "If they're not white then they don't have the right to exist."

Chevie was said to be an honor student as a sophomore in high school. His dream was to join the Air Force and become a pilot like Tom Cruise in "Top Gun." That all ended abrubtly, however, when the Kehoe's pulled their children out of school with the plans of home-schooling them. Kirby, afraid that his boys were picking up "bad habits" decided to keep them under his vigilance and make them "White Warriors." With Chevie and Cheyne, Kirby got his wish.

In his late teens Chevie became interested in polygamy believing that this would be the preferable way to see that the white race multiplied and never reached the extinction that is the fear of the racist right. Rather than seek his Air Force dreams, Chevie married Karena Gumm, a neighbor, and a year later they had a daughter - Kehoe's first contribution to furthering the white race. Along with his parents, Chevie studied the life and beliefs of Robert Matthews, leader and founder of "The Order." He would later claim great respect for Matthews as an individual and for his "dedication" to the white race. But, he saw a flaw in The Order and vowed never to make the same mistake. The Order was too large with more than 30 members. To Chevie, as to others in the militia and supremacist movement, a "cell" should be kept small. It should be able to maneuver "under the radar" without attracting attention.

One of the high-points of Chevie's young life was meeting the widow of Robert Matthews at the Aryan

Nations compound near Hayden Lake, Idaho. Debbie Matthews eventually remarried Buford Furrow, a security officer for the Aryan Nations compound who is currently serving two life sentences plus 110 years for injuring five people at a Jewish Community Center and killing a postal employee. One of the turning points in Chevie's life was when the ATF raided fellow racist and neighbor, Del Knudson's home. In an interview with Jo Thomas of the New York Times, Chevie stated: ""For me to see the government come up there with all these police cars and helicopters and all that," he said, "and tear his house apart, tear books off shelves, confiscate computer disks, confiscate every firearm he had, go through his garage, handcuff his wife, terrorize his children -- to see that the government has that type of power, you know something's wrong."

Mama and Papa Kehoe taught their children well. Kirby raised a white warrior. Chevie decided that the time was right to start a new homeland - a white one, of course. He and a few others established their "cell" and called it the Aryan People's Republic. That seemed to compliment the Aryan Republican Army. Two of the friends assisting in Chevie's endeavor were Danny Lee a/k/a Danny Graham and Faron Lovelace. Both of these men appear to have been followers and served in the role of "assistants" to Kehoe. Both of these men were dedicated and loyal - so loyal they would do anything for Chevie.

In 1993, Chevie was introduced to Angie Settle, the daughter of Jake Settle, a former cop who frequented the Aryan Nations compound with his family. Chevie was taken with Angie. Not only did he see her as a possible marijuana supplier - a habit that he had developed after years of living with his dope-smoking parents - but he also saw Angie as his perfect second wife. He convinced Angie that polygamy was an acceptable means to furthering the white race and they were soon married. Chevie escorted both wives to the 1993 Aryan World Congress. Apparently, Karina, who was seven months pregnant, was having a hard time accepting Angie's presence and Chevie assaulted her at the Congress giving her a shiner and bloody lip. Chevie, Karina and Angie moved to Elohim City where a polygamous lifestyle was being engaged in by others. The marriage between Chevie and Angie only lasted a couple of months with Angie tiring of the life and the violence which accompanied it. Chevie once again found himself in a monogamous situation.

Initially, Chevie's parents had been the ones to introduce him to Elohim City. Now that he was an adult

with a purpose and a direction, he found the surroundings quite to his liking. While there he met many like-minded individuals and developed friendships with some of them. Law-enforcement officials now know that in 1994, Chevie Kehoe had a lucrative operation which involved working the gun-show circuit and supplying the Aryan Republican Army with firearms.

Faron Lovelace had escaped from a Wisconsin prison where he was serving a term for armed bank robbery. He holed up in Northern Idaho in a booby-trapped home until he was captured and tried for murder - a murder ordered by Chevie Kehoe. In 1995, Chevie thought he had found another wife, but there was a problem in that she was married to a skinhead named Jeremy Scott, and Scott would not let his wife go...therefore, Chevie told his "assistant" Lovelace to kill the obstacle Scott. Being a loyal and dedicated white warrior - Faron did just that. In August of 1996, Lovelace, upon capture, led law-enforcement officials to the shallow grave where he and Chevie had buried Scoot. Scott's widow never married Chevie. Later in 1995, Faron Lovelace, at the direction of Chevie Kehoe, kidnapped Malcom Friedman of Colville, Washington and held him for $15,000 ransom from his wife.

Danny Lee, a/k/a Danny Graham, was a real piece of work, as well. With an extensive criminal history at the age of 24, Lee had been jailed in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, Washington and Wyoming. He had been arrested for homicide, robbery, theft and assault with a dangerous weapon. In 1990, Lee accompanied by one John David Patton, was involved in the killing of John Wavra of Oklahoma City. Allegedly, Lee beat and robbed Wavra, gave a knife to Patton and Patton then killed Wavra. In a plea bargain, Lee admitted to robbery and the murder charge was dropped. In January of 1996, Chevie Kehoe and Danny Lee entered the home of Tilly, Arkansas gun-dealer, William Mueller. Dressed as FBI agents, Kehoe and Lee hid until the Muellers came home. They methodically taped and handcuffed the hands and feet of William, his wife Nancy and their eight year-old daughter Sarah. They then tortured the Mueller's with cattle-prods and eventually killed all three by duct taping plastic bags over their heads and suffocating them. The bodies were then dumped into an Arkansas bayou and Kehoe and Lee bragged to others that they had put them on a "liquid diet." Initially, it was believed that their motive was robbery as Kehoe and Lee got away with a trailer full of guns, ammunition, gold and various militia papaphenalia that the Mullers sold at gun shows. But, as the investigation continued it became evident that there were some underlying facts which led to a deeper and even more sinister motive.

It came to light that the Muellers had close ties to a militia group in Western Arkansas that was also frequented by Dennis Mahon, head of the Oklahoma branch of White Aryan Resistance, and other

members of Elohim City. Mueller's wife, Nancy, it had been reported had been raised at a Christian Identity compound in Arkansas, in actuality, however, she was raised on a farm in Arkansas with no Identity teachings. While both Nancy and William had been visitors in Elohim City it was probably her husband who had the Identity ties. Additionally, it has been reported by family members that Nancy was terribly abused and controlled by William. Almost a year prior to their deaths, the Muller cabin had been burglarized and firearms and other items were stolen. Mueller indicated to friends that he might know the perpetrators and feared that they would return. He also confided that he was afraid that he was a target for assassination. Claiming that he had been harassed by the ATF over items that he sold from his gun show exhibits, he also stated that he had sent correspondence to his

congressman regarding this harassment. He told his friend, George Eaton, that there were two men who he was particularly worried about and because of their recent harassment, he believed them to be ATF agents. Having kept a ledger, Mueller entered the names of the two men under "suspects." Those two names were Andreas Strassmeir and Michael Brescia. Also from friends is the belief that during the time the Mueller's spent at Elohim City they became privy to certain undisclosed information about the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building and that the Mueller's were assassinated to stop them from talking. J.D. Cash, who has written extensively about the Elohim City connections to the OKC bombing, reported the following in the McCurtain Daily Gazette:

"Reporter Gene Worgis interviewed Mueller and his wife only days before they disappeared.

Worgis later wrote that the couple told him they were concerned that Elohim City roommates Andreas Strassmeir and Mike Brescia were going to harm them. Worgis photographed the couple at the gun show and published a story about their fears in a newsletter.

Strassmeir was never interviewed by the authorities about the Mueller murders. He crossed the Mexican border and returned to Germany the same week the Muellers' disappeared. That same month this reporter found Brescia hiding at the Pennsylvania residence of Mark Thomas, an Aryan Nation leader and fellow ARA member who subsequently pled guilty for roles in the bank robbery conspiracy."

For Chevie Kehoe time was running out. The Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to question Kehoe in relation to the Mueller murders. In December of 1996, a young skinhead out of Spokane, Washington was arrested in South Dakota. He was pulled over on a traffic violation and the police spotted a Bushmaster .223-caliber assault rifle. It turned out that the rifle had been stolen from William Mueller. Once the young man realized that the Feds were looking at him on a murder charge, he was quick to explain that he had purchased the rifle from Chevie Kehoe. Chevie, hearing about the arrest, left town quickly taking his brother Cheyne and his young family with him. They beat a trail across the country from Washington south to Texas and north to Ohio. In February of 1977, the police in Wilmington, Ohio pulled over a Chevrolet Suburban being driven by Chevie Kehoe for having an expired Washington license plate. A Special Report from the Militia Watchdog gives us a good description of what transpired between Kehoe and the Highway Patrolman:

The trooper walked up to the vehicle and asked to see the driver�s drivers� license. "To be honest with you, I ain�t got it on me right now, sir," replied the driver. Nor did the driver have any other identification or registration for the vehicle, which he said he borrowed from a friend in Washington state.

The trooper asked the driver to come back to the police cruiser with him. The driver got out of the vehicle, but when the trooper said that he wanted to search the man for weapons, the driver protested. "I don�t want to be violated like this," he said.

"All right, sir," replied the trooper. "Then I�ll arrest you for not having a driver�s license, and then I�ll search you and then I�ll put you in jail. How do you want to play it? You tell me. I�m not trying to make problems. We have two options�If you sit in my car, I�m going to search your person to make sure you have no dangerous or deadly weapons. Or I can arrest you for not having a driver�s license. Then I can search you, then I can put you in jail�Those are the options you have, sir. Which would you like to exercise?"

The driver asked the trooper how long it would take to make an out-of-state check on a valid driver�s license, then after the trooper�s response, began to run back to the vehicle. The trooper followed, as did a Clinton County sheriff�s deputy who had come to assist.

A passenger in the vehicle got out and fired several rounds at the deputy. Later analysis of the videotape suggested that the passenger put on a bulletproof vest before exiting the vehicle. He then ran away on foot. Neither the trooper nor the deputy was hit, and they returned fire. The driver pleaded with the officers not to shoot, but ignored orders to stop and got back in the car. Instead, the driver fled the scene in the Suburban, dragging the trooper a few feet as he held on to the open door on the driver�s side.

A short time later, a Wilmington police officer spotted the vehicle in a parking lot. "I�ve got him comin� out of Clinton Electric," he said on the radio. When the officer pulled into the lot, the driver shot at him. "Shots fired at Clinton Electric!" shouted the policeman. "Shots fired at me by an AR-15 rifle!" The officer was not hit, but a Wilmington citizen, 56-year old Frank Marsden, who was driving past the parking lot in a car that also contained his wife and son, was shot in the left shoulder. The shooter fled the scene on foot. Authorites later found 26 rifle shell casings left by the shooter in the parking lot.

The vehicle, left behind by the extremists, was registered to a known white supremacist from Washington state, Jacob Myron Settle, 39. Settle was a former police officer from Winthrop, Washington, and a member of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations. When police were able to obtain a search warrant to search the Suburban, they found six guns and more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as bulletproof vests, FBI clothing, U.S. Marshal badges, gas masks, a CS gas grenade, a body bag/stretcher, and other items."

All of this was caught on video tape and aired by Ohio news channels. The manhunt was on. A $60,000 reward was posted for information leading to their arrest but the Kehoe boys were long gone. Traveling in the shadowy underground of the white supremacists and anti-government underground, they sold weapons from the Mueller cache and avoided apprehension. The Kehoe brothers and their families found ranch-hand work in Utah and traveled under false identities. In early March, authorities located a motor home that had been abandoed by the Kehoe's just north of Casper, Wyoming. A search of the home turned up unspecified bomb-making materials but no clues as to where the Kehoe's had gone. Many of the acquaintances of the Kehoe's verbally supported them and especially those members of Aryan Nations. Mark Reynolds, a friend and Aryan Nations member has been quoted as saying, "Many�Americans believe the cops have no right subjecting people to searches of their bodies and vehicles. It�s not like these guys are criminals or something."

Chevie, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, began spooking little brother Cheyne while working on a ranch in Utah. His talk turned to the possibility of killing his parents in order to get his hands on an expensive gun-collection. He allegedly also spoke of killing his wife, Karina because he now believed that she was part Native American. It was also believed, by Cheyne, that Chevie had his eyes on Cheyne's wife. Cheyne fled the Utah ranch and, accompanied by Identity minister Ray Barker, he turned himself in to local officials in Colville, Washington. After Cheyne provided the authorities with a map, Chevie was arrested the next day in Gunlock, Utah. Danny Lee was arrested on September 24th at his mother's home in Oklahoma. Additionally, Kirby Kehoe, the father of Chevie and Cheyne is also in prison. It seems that he was also selling firearms and goods stolen from the Mueller's.

The Shadows Motel in Spokane, Washington had long been a landing place for the Kehoe's. In 1995, Chevie Kehoe was a guest there - more than once. A former manager of the Shadows contacted the FBI

immediately after the arrest of Timothy McVeigh. It seems that Chevie Kehoe had arranged for McVeigh to stay at the motel a few months prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. The same manager places McVeigh at the motel visiting Kehoe just weeks before the bombing. Other witnesses also claim to have seen Chevie Kehoe, Timothy McVeigh and Gregory McCrea together at The Shadows weeks prior to the bombing. McCrea, an acquaintance of Kehoe's, is a white supremacist who is an expert gunsmith and admitted child rapist, had accumulated an extremely large arsenal of machine guns, grenades and pipe bombs which was discovered upon his arrest on other charges. The manager related his concerns to a local newspaper, on the condition of anonymity, and in speaking about Kehoe he stated, "Days before that [The bombing] he had mentioned to me that there's going to be something happening on the 19th and it's going to wake people up,''

On the morning of April 19, 1995, Chevie Kehoe entered the office of The Shadows Motel about 8:15 and asked to watch CNN. When the news broke that the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City had been bombed, the manager reported that Kehoe was "ecstatic," saying "Well, it's about time!" Curiously, the FBI, failed to investigate any possible connection between Chevie Kehoe and Timothy McVeigh. Equally as curious, once McVeigh and Terry Nichols were arrested the FBI failed to explore ALL connections between McVeigh and the right-wing extremists who we now know played a major role in the deaths of 168 American people. Lies by omission are still untruths. The foundation of justice lies in truth. Without truth there can be no justice. One hundred and sixty-eight people deserve justice. The more than five-hundred wounded deserve justice. We, the American people, deserve the truth.