docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2005-02-28 11:21 pm

Just give me five minutes in a locked room with this sonofabitch tied to a chair

Me? I'll be the one with the great big baseball bat and a wolfish grin.

(Note: the below is cut/pasted from the Chicago Tribune because I don't want to have to subject you to getting a membership just to read the story.)



By David Heinzmann
Tribune staff reporter

February 28, 2005, 9:25 PM CST

The federal judge whom white supremacist Matthew Hale attempted to have murdered found her husband and mother lying dead in her house when she returned home Monday night, police said.

Judge Joan H. Lefkow returned to her house in the 5200 block of North Lakewood Avenue after work and found the bodies of her husband, attorney Michael F. Lefkow and her mother, Donna Humphrey, lying in blood in the house, police said.

Detectives, U.S. Marshals and FBI agents rushed to the scene and were investigating the deaths as a "death investigation," police said. Other family members may also have been present when the bodies were discovered, neighbors said.

Police sources were cautious about describing the deaths Monday night, and said it was too early to say how the victims were killed.

Michael F. Lefkow was an attorney in private practice. He was deeply involved in the Episcopal church and ran unsuccessfully for Cook County judge in 2002. Neighbors said they did not know whether the judge's mother was living with the family. The Lefkows married in 1975 and have four daughters.

Hale, the 33-year-old founder of the World Church of the Creator was arrested in January 2003 and charged with soliciting Judge Lefkow's murder a month after she had held him in contempt of court. Based largely on testimony from Hale's "security chief," a jury convicted Hale of soliciting the judge's murder in April 2004.

U.S. District Court Judge James Moody is scheduled to sentence Hale on April 6. Hale is currently being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the South Loop.

Evidence in the case against Hale included an email he sent the security chief, Thomas Evola, asking for Lefkow's home address. The address was posted on a white supremacist web site.

In a recorded conversation played at the trial, Evola, who was an FBI informant, talked with Hale about Lefkow and asked, "We gonna exterminate that rat?"

Hale first came to prominence in 1999 as a white supremacist and head of the World Church of the Creator. Over the Independence Day weekend, former church member Benjamin Smith went on a shooting spree directed at racial minorities, killing two and wounding nine.

The FBI investigated Hale's role but he was never charged.

In 2000, the Oregon-based group TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation, more commonly called Church of the Creator sued Hale for trademark infringement.

Lefkow ruled in Hale's favor, but a federal appeals court in 2002 ruled that Hale's group had violated the Oregon church's trademark.


A jolly pirate clan, with jolly pirate nicknames..

[identity profile] prizmdonna.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. That poor family. :-(

I don't think five minutes is nearly long enough.

- donna

[identity profile] murphymom.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Apache with a skinning knife would be far more appropriate - make the bastard suffer as long as possible....

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
I like the way you think.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Give me about 100 acres, and a M-21.

I'll give him a whole ten minute head start.

[identity profile] griffen.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Dear goddess. Their children....

*shakes his head and marks another mark up for "the human face hides inhuman monsters..."*

[identity profile] inkmistress.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's just my Roman ancestry............

Crucify Him!

[identity profile] nsingman.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Too early to say how the victims were killed?" Good grief. Do they think it might have been suicide?

That said, Hale has an alibi.

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Leave, hell. Grab some popcorn and a comfortable chair.

[identity profile] madsqueeble.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Intestinal flogging is highly overdue.

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

Oh. I now have sitting on my digital cable box Mothra, Gomorra and that big figurine I won of Taroh. Hee.
seawasp: (Default)

Er...

[personal profile] seawasp 2005-03-01 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you mean... Gamera/Gammera? Gomorra would be, um, a different sort of thing, I think.

Gamera's cool! Gamera's neat! Gamera's full of turtle meat! We love Gamera!

Re: Er...

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, it's this chap, from Ultraman.
seawasp: (Default)

Re: Er...

[personal profile] seawasp 2005-03-01 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooo. Cool rubber monsteryness.

[identity profile] shadowcat48li.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Matt Hale and his boyfriend Fred Phelps are two peas in a pod... having been inflicted with hearing both of them speak, 10 minutes in a room with both of them tied to chairs

better yet, leave them in 2 chairs, the chairs tied together, and start filling the room with water
nah.. too quick

[identity profile] dandelion-diva.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Don't forget the lemon juice and salt.

Gessi

[identity profile] madsqueeble.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Go j00. :D

[identity profile] murphymom.livejournal.com 2005-03-03 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
...and then we can wrap him in wet rawhide and leave him in the sun.