Chevie Kehoe

Chevie O'Brien Kehoe^[1][2] (born January 29, 1973, Orange Park, Florida, 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 for 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] In 1993, 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 Mueller, a gun dealer who had a large collection of weapons, ammunition and cash. Kehoe and Lee murdered Mueller, his wife Nancy and their 8-year-old stepdaughter, Sarah Powell, and dumped their bodies in a swamp. Kehoe received three life sentences, and Lee received the death penalty. 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 police officers in Wilmington, Ohio.^{[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]

• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute (18 U.S.C. §§ 1962)
• Murdering in aid of racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1959)
• Robbery Conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 1951)

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 their 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]}

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

References

External links

• Shootout in Ohio
• How an honor student became a white warrior
• Convicting Chevie Kehoe: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?