Chevie Kehoe
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Chevie O'Brien Kehoe (born January 19, 1973 in Florida) is the oldest of eight sons born to Kirby and Gloria Kehoe. He is a self-proclaimed white supremacist and convicted murderer currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping, torture and murder of the William Mueller family.
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[edit] Early life
Kehoe was named for his father's favorite brand of automobile (Chevrolet). His father, Kirby Kehoe, had served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. When Chevie was an infant, his father moved the family to rural North Carolina. In 1985 he moved the family again, this time near Deep 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 Three years later, Chevie, an honor student, and his younger brother Cheyne were both withdrawn from school so their parents could homeschool them.[1]'.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 "American 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 a daughter; in 1993, Kehoe also married Angie Settle, espousing that polygamy was an acceptable way to further the Aryan race.
[edit] On trial
On February 20, 1998, Kehoe pled 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 standard traffic stop resulting from expired tags on his 1977 blue 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 and can be found on the internet.
In 2005, Kehoe was convicted of the murders of the gun dealer Robert Mueller and his family. He received three sentences of life imprisonment without parole. Kehoe's mother Gloria and his younger brother Cheyne served as prosecution witnesses and testified against him at the trial. Kehoe is presently serving his sentence at USP Lee.[citation needed]
In 2005, an independent radio documentary entitled "Convicting Chevie Kehoe"' was released, suggesting that he had been wrongfully convicted on the murder charges.[3]
