Chevie O'Brien Kehoe (born January 29th, 1973 in
Orange Park,
Florida) was said to be a self-proclaimed
white supremacist and convicted murderer currently serving three consecutive
life sentences for the
kidnapping,
torture, and
murder of William Mueller and his family.
Early life
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 Chevie was an infant, his father moved the family to rural
North Carolina. In 1985 he moved the family again, this time near Deer 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 Three years later, Chevie, an honor student, and his younger brother Cheyne were both withdrawn from school so their parents could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.
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 "
Aryan 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 4 children, Kehoe also married Angie Settle, espousing that
polygamy was an acceptable way to further the
Aryan race.
Presently,...
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