Ku Klux Klan Leader Killed Female Recuit

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Sky News

Ku Klux Klan Leader Killed Female Recuit
4:05am UK, Thursday May 06, 2010
David Williams, Sky News Online

A Ku Klux Klan leader has admitted murdering a female recruit after she backed out of an initiation exercise.

Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 45, killed Cynthia Lynch the day after she had refused a 'rite of passage' at the remote Klan training camp in 2008.

A former KKK member testified the ex-leader shot Ms Lynch, whom he had personally recruited, after she told him: "I want out."

The 43-year-old had reportedly travelled by bus to join the Sons of Dixie Brotherhood chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in northeastern Louisiana.



Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Ku-Klux-Klan-Leader-Murdered-Female-Recruit-Raymond-Chuck-Foster-Admits-Killing-Cynthia-Lynch/Article/201005115626261?f=rss

[onehandle]

1. Guns and sheets. Everything old is new again. nt

[proteus_lives]

4. Awesome false connection.

What if he lynched or stabbed her?

Still make the same comment?

[Chef Eric]

13. Awesome idiotic comment.

What's your point? That no KKK member has ever used a gun until now?

[Judi Lynn]

16. They save their lynching for murders of minority people.

Have never heard of Klansmen stabbing or lynching other white people.

[Mopar151]

17. They're pretty indiscriminate - turn on each other in a heartbeat.

They pretty much hate everybody, it's just easier to focus on people of other colors.

Dennis Berry was beaten into rubble by his own son - found this on a forum:
Former KKK leader in northeast Indiana found beaten

SPENCERVILLE, Ind. - A former Ku Klux Klan leader who held a television news crew hostage in his northeastern Indiana home seven years ago was found severely beaten and police believe he was injured in a fight with his son.

Jeffrey Lynn Berry, 53, of Harlan was listed in critical but stable condition in a Fort Wayne hospital after the attack Saturday at a home east of Spencerville, DeKalb County police Sgt. David Cserep said.

Officers armed with a search warrant entered the Garrett home of a Berry's 35-year-old son, Anthony, late Sunday as part of their investigation, Cserep said. Investigators do not believe any weapons were used in the fight, he said.

Jeff Berry sustained internal head injuries,
the sheriff's department said. No arrests were immediately made.

Berry formerly led the DeKalb County-based American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2001, he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit criminal confinement with a deadly weapon for conspiring to hold a TV news crew hostage in his DeKalb County home in 1999.

Reporter George Sells IV and camerawoman Heidi Thiel of Louisville, Ky., TV station WHAS interviewed Berry in November 1999, but said he became angry when he learned the story also would include comments from a former Klan member.

Berry refused to let them leave until they surrendered the video of the interview with him, they said. Another man, who carried a shotgun, locked the door.

He was sentenced in 2001 to seven years in prison and was released in December 2004, according to the Indiana Department of Correction

[Judi Lynn]

18. Amazing! I had to look for a photo of this genius. Here's a dapper looking Berry:

http://indiana.typepad.com.nyud.net:8090/fwob/images/berry_jeff_kkk_2006.jpg

Convicted KKK leader critically beaten
http://indiana.typepad.com/fwob/2006/07/convicted_kkk_l.html

http://www.radio-canada.ca.nyud.net:8090/nouvelles/dossiers/extremistes/img/supraraklanjeffbarry.jpg

Le leader actuel des American Knights du KKK est Jeff Berry, de l'Indiana.

La mouvance raciste, les néonazis
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/dossiers/extremistes/Qui/raciste.htm

http://www.dr.dk.nyud.net:8090/NR/rdonlyres/F69876E8-08E6-42DB-97D8-16A474F230EC/495064/033de685c639452ca0466c8df919f79f_jacob.jpg
Dansk roadmovie - Jacob og Klanen
30. april 2007 kl. 20:50 på DR2
Produktion:
Bastard Film

En roadmovie om den danske fotograf Jacob Holdt og Ku Klux Klan.

Jacob Holdt rejser til Chicago for at gense en af sine gamle venner, som han fotograferede til sin bog "Amerikanske Billeder".

Vennen hedder Jeff Berry, er leder af Ku Klux Klan og har for nylig siddet i fængsel.

http://www.dr.dk/Dokumentar/gammel_struktur/tv/DR2/2007/0424110818.htm

http://www.jonronson.com.nyud.net:8090/img/klan3.jpg
New Klan

~snip~
Ronson follows the New Klan as they make their way to Michigan on a national tour aimed at recruiting new members. On the way, he stops off to meet Robb's main competitor - rival Klan leader Jeff Berry. Not afraid to stick to the old stereotypes, Berry is a well-known racist who is outraged at Robb's tactics.

"What's wrong with saying 'nigger'? To me, that's a dictatorship. That's what the Klan is about - freedom of speech. Thom Robb is a chickenshit. If he doesn't change his ways and the way he runs his Klan, the only thing he's going to have left is memories'"

More:
http://www.jonronson.com/klan.html

[jgraz]

55. Is it just me, or do they all look alike?

:shrug:

[uppityperson]

47. Yes. KKK lynch, stab, shoot, strangle, beat up, etc.

not sure what your point is

[proteus_lives]

49. Nohandle makes false connections.

And connect all things to firearms.

It's part of his anti-rights plank.

[rhett o rick]

67. I think their point is that you can say stab, strangle, beat up, but dont you dare say the word

"gun". If you even hint that guns are a problem the "gun people" will blow you out of the water. Pun intended. They carry their defense of guns to an absurd level.

[jgraz]

51. I wonder what what paulsby has to say on this...

Oh wait...

[proteus_lives]

53. So sad.

For you that is.

Don't think your anti-rights stew is going down any easier.

[jgraz]

54. You can't use the term "anti-rights" when you only know about one right.

And you don't even understand that very well.

[grantcart]

62. If your a single issue voter you can

[proteus_lives]

70. Who is the single issue voter?

[jgraz]

72. You will be. You just need one more issue.

[proteus_lives]

76. Too bad.

Like most of the anti-rights crowd, you don't have anything to say. You must like the fringe, I guess.

[proteus_lives]

69. Only one?

I defend all of them.

Unlike you, I don't pick and choose.

[jgraz]

71. You just gave the textbook definition of a fundamentalist

Congratulations.

[proteus_lives]

75. Yes, I believe in the U.S. Constitution.

I don't pick and choose which freedoms to support (or believe that some people are unworthy of them). That's why I support things like fair trials, gun rights, LGBT rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, probable cause, voting rights for every citizen.

[proteus_lives]

74. Sorry, dude.

You're the one who failed class.

You shouldn't approve and support stripping your fellow Americans of their rights.

[jgraz]

78. This is your second response in this subthread. Is this the one you want to go with?

Or did you think up something clever during the night?

[grantcart]

61. lol humor is the best shiv

[rhett o rick]

66. But he didnt lynch her. He shot her. So much easier. People kill people. People with guns kill

more people. Lots of people with guns kill lots of people.

[No Elephants]

56. Still. The Klan never went away.

[tblue]

2. Oh, the fellas in the Pen are gonna have a good old time with this dude

once word gets around about who he is. Life in prison, eh? It's gonna be a looooong life.

[JackintheGreen]

26. You don't think the Aryan Brotherhood keeps its own?

All he needs to say is that the b#*@! didn't hate enough/was sympathetic to the lesser race. They'll have his back. It's not like he shot a kid.

[Tailormyst]

27. He will be a hero to his brothers in prison

[anachro1]

3. "I want out"?

REALLY.

What was her first tip off?

[TheWraith]

6. Yeah, seems pretty stupid to get that far in in the first place.

Not to blame the victim or anything, but if joining the Klan wasn't bad enough to stop her, what was?

[No Elephants]

58. I'm guessing gang rape was part of the initiation "ceremony."

[truthisfreedom]

5. Whenever I find myself shaking my head in disbelief over this kind of shit

I have to remind myself that the average IQ is a mere 100, so half of the people in this country must be below that.

[yellowcanine]

21. Actually an average of 100 doesn't mean half the people are below that.

That would only be true if 100 were also the the median.

More or less than half could be below 100...depends on whether it is a normal distribution or skewed one way or the other.

[AngryAmish]

31. IQ has a normal distribution

[dogfacedboy]

7. Stupid people are very often killed by their own stupidity...

[TacticalPeek]

8. Typical clucker.

Kills an unarmed woman.

Real tough guy.

[Name removed]

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[Matariki]

45. Oh yay - the first Prison Rape Joke.

not funny.

[petronius]

9. Her name was Lynch? That's sickly appropriate

I wonder what the initiation rite was, and if it was somehow different from what male recruits were required to do. It seems there must have been something else involved; this kind of reaction is pretty disproportionate just for someone deciding not to join your group. (Although, I could be making a mistake in expecting 'normal person' responses from klansmen...)

[Name removed]

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[mopinko]

57. back in my day

not the kkk, but the bikers that i knew, women initiates were required to pull the train. i'd be betting this was the deal.

[Cleita]

10. Why am I not surprised considering they treat

women with less respect than their firearms and their dogs. Why do the women think they would have any status among jerks like that?

[Judi Lynn]

11. Details Emerge On Accused Louisiana Klan Killer’s History

http://www.splcenter.org.nyud.net:8090/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/foster111208.jpg
Details Emerge On Accused Louisiana Klan Killer’s History
Posted in Klan by David Holthouse on November 12, 2008

Raymond “Chuck” Foster (right), the Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested yesterday for killing a woman following a backwoods Klan initiation ritual, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001.

Foster, 44, was the founding Imperial Wizard, or national leader, of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Klan faction that formed on January 1, 2001, in Watson, La.

During the next three years, the group developed chapters in three other states while maintaining a low profile with the exception of a single incident in 2003 when a White Knights official in Ohio, Jeremy Parker, drew attention by posting instructions for making a pipe bomb on the Internet in response to a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration. “Sure would hate to see anything happen,” he wrote.

~snip~
The woman Foster allegedly murdered, identifed by police as 43-year-old Cynthia C. Lynch, was apparently recruited over the Internet to join Foster’s latest Klan group. Today’s media accounts of this rapidly developing story have variously identified that group as the Dixie Brotherhood and/or the Sons of Dixie.

~snip~
Law enforcement officials said that Lynch took a bus from her home near Tulsa. Okla., to Slidell, La., where two members of the “Dixie” Klan group picked her up last Friday and transported her to a campground near the Pearl River. At least eight members of the Klan group were present, including Foster.

After a series of rites including the shaving of her head, the Klan members took Lynch to a camp on a sandbar that was accessible only by boat. There the initiation continued. St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain told the Times-Picayune the rituals on the sandbar consisted of lighting torches and “running around in the woods.”

By Sunday night, Lynch had reportedly changed her mind about joining the Klan and wanted to leave the camp. This sparked an argument with Foster, who allegedly pushed her down and killed her with a single shot from a .40 caliber handgun.

According to Strain, Foster tried to dig the bullet out of Lynch’s body with a knife before ordering his followers to set fire to her belongings and get rid of her body.

The next morning, Foster’s son, Shane Foster, 20, and another member of the Klan group, Frank Stafford, 21, asked a convenience store clerk in nearby Bogalusa if he knew how to remove bloodstains from clothes. The clerk, who recognized the men, alerted to local sheriff’s office.

Following a rapid investigation, St. Tammany Parish deputies raided the campsite, arresting five Klan members who had fled into the woods. The elder Foster, who initially escaped, turned himself in later that day.

At the campsite, investigators found weapons, Confederate battle flags, KKK banners, five rank-and-file white Klan robes, and one black Imperial Wizard robe. They found Lynch’s corpse in a weedy ditch about a half-mile from the sandbar.

Chuck Foster has been charged with second-degree murder. His son, along with Stafford and five other Klan members—Random Hines, 27; Danielle Jones, 23; Alicia Watkins, 23; Timothy Michael Watkins, 30; and Andrew Yates, 20—were charged with obstruction of justice.

Although the alleged murder of the Oklahoma woman is the first reported murder of a prospective Klan member during an initiation ceremony, it’s not the first reported shooting or other serious injury. Klansmen, flames, guns and alcohol is a volatile mixture.

For example, on Nov. 23, 2004, a member of America’s Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was accidentally shot in the head during an initiation ritual that involved a prospective member being strung from a tree with a noose around his neck, standing on his tiptoes, while Klansmen shot him with paintball guns. The accidental shooting occurred when one of them decided to scare the initiate (who survived) by firing a real gun in his direction, and a wayward paintball altered the shooter’s aim.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/11/12/details-emerge-on-accused-klan-killers-history/#more-2810

[live love laugh]

12. They asked a store clerk if he knew how to remove blood stains?!!

The stoopid, It Burns!!!!

[heliarc]

14. The Stoopid is better pronounced (so to speak)

... when he tried to dig the bullet out of her head with a knife. Deadly idiocy.

[Judi Lynn]

15. But he looks so quick! How could it be? Here are the other suspects:

Suspects In KKK Slaying
http://www.wdsu.com/slideshow/news/17957814/detail.html

From story:
Slaying Linked To KKK Initiation; 8 Arrested
http://www.wdsu.com/news/17956884/detail.html

[Mopar151]

29. One of his boys is pretty slow

SPLC articles:
"The IQ level of this group is not impressive, to be kind," said Jack Strain, the local sheriff."
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/ku-klux-klan
subsequent article: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/summer/into-the-wild
"A couple of those arrested in association with Lynch's death may not even understand the meanings of blood oaths they took.

Shane Foster has a brain injury from being hit by a car when he was 4 years old, his mother says. Aged 20 at the time of Lynch's murder, he has the mental capacity of a child of 7 or 8, she says. "Shane, he forgets a lot. My son didn't do anything wrong. has no right doing this to my son. He makes me sick to my stomach." In April, a judge agreed, ruling that Shane Foster was not currently competent to stand trial.

Among those arrested but not indicted was Andrew Yates, 20. "I really don't think he knows what the Klan is," says his attorney, Ernest Barrow III. Yates is mildly mentally retarded and was collecting Social Security disability checks at the time of his arrest, he adds. After Lynch was killed, Chuck Foster stole Yates' boat and his cell phone "so he couldn't call police," according to Barrow. "I think he was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Theresa Foster says her husband coerced some people, including his son, to remain in the Klan under threat of violence. "He threatened everybody. The way I look at it is Raymond Foster is wholly to blame for what happened." She's divorcing him."

[Brickbat]

46. That just makes me sad.

A crackpot surrounding himself with vulnerable people who don't have a whole lot of resources.

[No Elephants]

60. Things get confusing for me when they try 12 year olds AS ADULTS, but find an adult with the mind of

an child (according to his lawyer) should not be tried as an adult OR as a child.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not in favor of charging incompetents with murder, either. I just would like for things to make sense, to have some congruity and proportion. Maybe it's the Eighteenth Century in me.

[deutsey]

19. A real mastermind, you can tell

:eyes:

[47of74]

20. He looks...

:sarcasm: He looks like a fine, upstanding citizen. :sarcasm:

[AlphaCentauri]

39. The Klan is religion n/t

[No Elephants]

63. I think Sheriff Jack Strain is fibbing about what the rituals on the sandbar consisted of.

"After a series of rites including the shaving of her head, the Klan members took Lynch to a camp on a sandbar that was accessible only by boat. There the initiation continued. St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain told the Times-Picayune the rituals on the sandbar consisted of lighting torches and 'running around in the woods.'

<snip>


They found Lynch’s corpse in a weedy ditch about a half-mile from the sandbar."

[coffeenap]

22. I'm going to speculate that this was about sex-

as it so often is when a woman or girl is murdered.

[yellowcanine]

23. YA THINK?

And likely some kind of... err - unusual sex.

[coffeenap]

34. I guess I needed the sarcasm tag....nt

[conspirator]

43. There was a Neo-nazi Group in Madrid whose initiation for women was being gang-banged nt

[disillusioned73]

24. Live by the sword....

[anachro1]

25. No doubt

Someone told her the KKK was a nice place to meet young, single men.

[Silent3]

40. Judging from the looks of this crew,,,

...they'd be more inclined to try to hook up at family reunions.

[mitchum]

28. "It's heritage...not murder!"

[catbyte]

30. Sorry, but I just can't bring myself to cry big, salty tears

for that bigot.

:hide:

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[mstinamotorcity]

32. I am not surprised

And there have been incidents where white people have killed other white people for sympathizing with minorities. The klan does not respect women they think they are only there for breeding purposes. The klan thinks its a woman's duty to bear children to populate the Caucasian culture.It doesn't matter if the person is white,it only matters when you go against the hatred they use to intimidate a society. It happened in Mississippi with three civil rights workers. It happened in Alabama murdering children with a bomb in a church.It happened with a white woman I believe in Mississippi also.I can't remember the woman's name but there are quite a few duers who do. Help me out. Don't ever be surprised at who you find out is racist. Since we have a multi cultural President,they have been out in full force.Can you say teabaggers?

[noiretextatique]

50. Viola Liuzzo

Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a civil rights activist from Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama. One of the Klansmen in the car from which the shots were fired was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant.<1>

Liuzzo's name is one of those inscribed on a civil rights memorial in the state capital. She died at the age of 39
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo

[troubledamerican]

35. The times they are a-changin'

[No Elephants]

59. Yes. Fifty years ago, not a one of these animals would have been arrested.

[Deep13]

36. Who could have imagined that a man filled with mindless hate could be so violent?

I'm not condoning the murder, of course. It needs to be prosecuted like any other murder. Still, there is a real temptation to say "a pox on both their houses."

[mrbarber]

37. So a KKK member killed another KKK member?

And nothing of value was lost.

[anachro1]

42. White on white crime

How sad. NOT.

[valerief]

38. On the bright side, it's one less sheeter.

:shrug:

[Matariki]

44. I can only imagine what the "initiation exercise" was she 'wanted out of'

murder or torture?

[uppityperson]

48. I wonder why she wanted in and what she balked at. Being in Bogalusa after Katrina

with Vfp group, am surprised we only got kicked out of campgrounds we were in.

And no, am not saying she "deserved" anything, but wondering why she wanted in, what she balked at. KKK is alive and well.

[No Elephants]

64. Why she wanted in? Same reasons anyone wants into the Klan. What she balked at?

I think we have only the word of this motley crew that she "changed her mind." Maybe it was gang rape and she was screaming and/or trying to break free when he shot her.

[Tuvok Obama]

52. I suppose there's a lesson in all of this...

...and the lesson is:

Never take a bus to northeastern Louisiana to join the Sons of Dixie Brotherhood chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.


Who could have possibly predicted this would turn out badly for this woman.:dunce:

[knixphan]

73. Quote of the day!

I'm so stealing that.

[No Elephants]

65. "At the campsite, investigators found weapons,

Confederate battle flags, KKK banners, five rank-and-file white Klan robes, and one black Imperial Wizard robe."

I'm sure the name "Sons of Dixie Brotherhood," and the Confederate flags are totally unrelated to the racist essence of the KKK. Pure coincidence.

[WheelWalker]

68. Perhaps she was hoping to go under cover.

Pun is unavoidable in this context.

[Dorian Gray]

77. Wow......

An organization killed with real peaches.