Chevie O"Brien Kehoe 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.
Background
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.
Career
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. 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.
In 1993, Kehoe married a second wife Angie Settle (also known as Angie Murray) near Hayden Lake, Idaho, on July 9, 1993, espousing that polygamy was a way to further the Aryan race. 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:
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute (18 University of Southern California 1962)
Murdering in aid of racketeering (18 University of Southern California 1959)
Robbery Conspiracy (18 University of Southern California 1951)
Kehoe denies the criminal accusations against him and has filed appeals. His appeals have been denied.
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.
He received three sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. However, they both kept the secret until he got caught. Kehoe is currently imprisoned at the Florence ADMAX United States Pharmacopoeia, Colorado.
He is Federal Bureau of Prisons #21300-009.