Eight arrested in Klan-related killing, police say

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

Eight people were arrested Tuesday, one on a charge of murder, in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a remote Louisiana campsite during what police say was an initiation ceremony for the Ku Klux Klan.

The woman, whose identity has not been confirmed, was recruited over the Internet to join the Klan by the suspects, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.

The woman traveled from Oklahoma to Louisiana for the ceremony and was taken to a campsite near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans.

On Sunday, the woman asked to be taken from the camp to a nearby town. An argument ensued, and the woman was fatally shot by the group's leader, Bonnett said.

Some of the suspects then tried to conceal the killing by burning the woman's personal items, he said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/11/klan.slaying/index.html

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B*stards. I'd love to see all of them rounded up. Nothing but frigging domestic terrorists.

[curse of greyface]

1. Sounds like a RICO case to me. nt

[thunder rising]

2. Equality comes to the KKK (almost), but it looks like they are just killing their own.

I wonder what the initiation was?

[KDTV]

3. What was the race of the woman?

The report doesn't make it clear.

[Lerkfish]

4. since she wanted to join, I'm going to go out on a limb and say "white".

[blonndee]

5. Ha. She went to join the KKK. I hardly think the report needs to make her race "clear."

:rofl:

[struggle4progress]

6. Slain woman was part of KKK ritual, St. Tammany sheriff says

... After the shooting, Foster and the other seven suspects attempted to hide the crime by digging the bullet out of her body, dumping her in the Pearl River Canal near Lock No. 3 Road and burning the campsite, located on a sandbar in the canal, Strain said.

The investigation started after two of the Klansmen, Frank Stafford and Shane Foster, showed up at a Circle K in Bogalusa early Monday morning and asked the clerk how to get bloodstains out of clothing, authorities said. Investigators were able to track down these suspects and eventually found the other six in the woods near Sun ...

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/slain_woman_was_part_of_kkk_ri.html

[struggle4progress]

7. Police: Woman slain trying to leave KKK ritual

... Strain said the woman arrived in the Slidell, La., area last week and was met by two people connected to the Klan group. She was taken over the weekend to the campsite near Sun, Louisiana, on the banks of the Pearl River. Sun is about 60 miles north of New Orleans.

Authorities said the group's members called themselves the "Dixie Brotherhood."

"The IQ level of this group is not impressive, to be kind," Strain said, adding, "I can't imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk by any one of these kooks."

Mark Pitcavage, directive of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, said the Dixie Brotherhood appears to be a small, loosely organized group of people ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27667486/

[Wickerman]

8. "I can't imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk by any one of these kooks."

I'd have to disagree, what with them killing one of their own and all. Call me old-fashioned, but I consider killers kind of on the dangerous side and prefer that my law enforcement look at them with the same prejudiced eye.

[struggle4progress]

11. Not sure, but would guess the sheriff is simply saying it's not a cunning and well-organized group,

not trying to say bless their pointy little heads and matching hats, they're just some harmless fun-loving good ole boyz

Could be wrong -- anyway, it's a case worth following

[Wickerman]

13. gotcha

they are, no doubt, on the wrong end of future Darwin awards and probably couldn't organize a field trip to Walmart. Just thought the sheriff used some pretty funny ways of describing a murdering band of racist thugs.

[struggle4progress]

19. Well, maybe you were right originally. See post #14 below

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. ...asked the clerk how to get bloodstains out of clothing.... Nuff said!

They couldn't even tell the difference between initiating and terminating. Can't sympathize a whole lot with her.

[musette_sf]

14. seeing as Strain is the idiot who said

"I don't want to get into calling people names, but if you're going to walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and chee wee hairstyles, then you can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy",

i'd say that maybe he knows more about these "kooks" than he is letting on.

[struggle4progress]

18. Thanks for this info. NPR link follows:

Dreadlocks Unwelcome in a Louisiana Parish (NPR)
by Jimi Izrael
Day to Day, July 10, 2006 · A sheriff in a Louisiana parish (similar to counties in other states) said recently that people with dreadlocks and "other chee wee hairstyles" are unwelcome in his jurisdiction ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5546068

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=5546068&m=5546069

[illuminaughty]

20. Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole

Two extremely dangerous dim bulbs. What are they trying to say? They're just kooky, wacky, and harmless?

[nichomachus]

9. I guess she wouldn't donate to their "Yes on Prop 8" collection.

[muntrv]

12. Use the Patriot Act on these bastards!

[crickets]

16. Agreed.

As long as we're stuck with that monstrosity, it might as well be used to reign in and punish some people who actually deserve to be called terrorists.

[yardwork]

15. The hate rhetoric is bringing these people out of the woodwork.

There's been an explosion of hate groups like this since 2000.

[peacetalksforall]

17. A gun was or was not meant for that. Depends on who owns it. The judge should ask the ratio of

guns to the number of men conducting the iniation. What was so awful that this woman wanted to leave and, obviously, they couldn't let her. Or was her iniation about something else, having more to do with the body, than the KKK. Are woman allowed in the KKK? Is there a KKK gene? So sad. If they go to prison, they can gloat or think about that night for the rest of their lives when in solitude.

[struggle4progress]

21. Klan murder shocks Bogalusa

10:34 PM CST on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Susan Edwards / Eyewitness News

... James Stokes said aside from a rebel flag he used to see hanging outside of the Foster's home, there was never a red flag that anything unusual or criminal ever happened at the house next door ...

The Bogalusa mayor and police chief said that the last allegations of Klan activity were from two years ago. The police, along with the FBI, investigated that incident, but did not find any evidence of Klan activity then, nor have they in decades ...

But the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said the Dixie Brotherhood of the KKK was based in Bogalusa. Sheriff Jack Strain said the Oklahoma woman who was murdered was recruited and brought to Sun, La., just outside of Bogalusa, for an initiation ceremony ...

Sheriff Strain said the Klan leader, Raymond Foster, has a long criminal history in St. Tammany Parish and in Washington Parish. He is charged with second-degree murder. The seven other suspects are charged with obstruction of justice ...

http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl111108mlklan.1a378821f.html

[Javaman]

22. when you sleep with dogs....

you wake up dead.

[struggle4progress]

23. Ku Klux Klan slaying evokes bad memories of Louisiana's racist past

Michael Kunzelman And Kevin Mcgill, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

... Bogalusa, a logging town dominated by a huge paper mill about 100 kilometres north of New Orleans, is the largest city in Washington Parish, which, like the whole state, was won by John McCain, not Obama last week.

Sunday's killing was in St. Tammany Parish, just across the Washington Parish line and all the suspects are from Washington Parish, which more than 40 years earlier was beset by anti-desegregation violence. In 1965, Oneal Moore, the parish's first black sheriff's deputy, was slain in an ambush, a crime that has not been solved ...

In this week's shooting, St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain said Cynthia C. Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Okla., was recruited over the Internet to participate in the KKK ritual in a rural area and then was to return to her state to attract members. Strain said the group's leader, Raymond (Chuck) Foster, 44, shot and killed her after a fight broke out when she asked to be taken back to the town of Slidell ...

"Really, it's a pathetic collection of losers and thugs," <Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center> said. "Even across the radical right most people look down their nose at the Klan these days" ...

http://www.canadaeast.com/news/article/479357

[classysassy]

24. More money

for the mental ward.1% of the 7b.

[struggle4progress]

25. Change of heart doomed woman

She wanted out of Klan initiation to return to Oklahoma, sheriff says
Thursday, November 13, 2008
By Jeff Adelson

Cynthia Lynch boarded a bus in Tulsa on Friday and braced herself to venture out of Oklahoma for the first time in her life.

Described by family members as weak-willed, the 43-year-old divorcee was reaching out, scrambling for some kind of acceptance even if it meant traveling 700 miles to meet with a small group of dedicated Ku Klux Klansmen in a remote corner of St. Tammany Parish while promising to spread their message of racial purity ...

She was shot dead Sunday night, authorities said, while arguing with Raymond "Chuck" Foster, the imperial wizard of the Bogalusa Sons of Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, during initiation rites to join the organization. While the exact details of the argument are unclear, authorities believe Foster shot Lynch after becoming enraged when she asked to leave.

Investigators have found no indication that Lynch chose to leave because of any abuse suffered at the hands of the organization, and her autopsy showed no signs that she was sexually or physically abused, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said ...

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/122655723972380.xml&coll=1

[struggle4progress]

26. Woman victim identified in Klan case

By DAVID J. MITCHELL AND SANDY DAVIS
Advocate staff writers
Published: Nov 13, 2008 - Page: 1A - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

... On Wednesday, St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Peter Galvan identified the woman victim of the attack as Cynthia C. Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Okla, through forensic findings, the help of family members and past medical records ...

Lynch had her head shaved while participants were in Klan robes and held burning torches, St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies recovered the robes and other materials ...

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/34381814.html