Posted on 11/11/2008 3:14:32 PM PST by BBell
A woman found slain in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday was shot to death by the head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa after she tried to back out of an initiation ritual, St. Tammany Parish authorities announced Tuesday.
Investigators have not positively identified the woman yet, but believe she is from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said. She apparently had come to Louisiana by bus after applying to join the organization over the Internet and had intended to start recruiting others in Oklahoma, he said.
The woman and eight members of the Klan were in the Sun area camping Sunday night when she apparently attempted to leave, sparking an argument with Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 44, of Bogalusa, who acted as the group's "imperial wizard," Strain said. Foster shot the woman during the argument with a .40-caliber handgun, he said.
All eight of the people at the campsite have been arrested, Strain said.
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.
The woman's body was recovered Monday.
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St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain, center, is flanked by Washington Parish sheriff's Deputy Brian Davidson, St. Tammany deputy Sgt. george Cox, Lt. Tom Anderson of the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office, and Lt. Joe Picone of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.
Strange activity going on down here.
The KKK took my baby away.
Those Klansmen are a bright lot I'd say.
A necessary prerequisite to some other things the new administration has in mind.
They are defiling the CBF. These murderous pigs should be taken out and shot.
Well this settles it. The President needs new Executive Powers to hunt down and destroy these Right Wingers. (Sarc)
Can’t hardly say “Imperial Wizard” without saying immediately thereafter “Imperial Lizard.”
Just thought I’d mention.
They are down to 8 KKK members in the HotBed of KKK territory!
Ringy, ringy, ringy the President,
Find out where my Baby went,
Ringy, ringy, ringy the FBI,
Find out if my Baby’s alive
What scum. No tolerance for the filth.
Feel bad for the woman though, looked like she came to her senses and was trying to flee the Byrdbrains.
Yes, without “victims” or “enemies”, the rat party would not exist.
Sweet mo-G, it’s a wonder these guys have mastered respiration...
With all due respect, the Klan existed long before Obama was even though of. The Klan was pure evil long before Obama was thought of. Obamas faults may be legion, but it’s extremely disengenuous to try to pin this woman’s murder by vile Klansmen on him.
Damn these people are almost as bad as scientologists.
WTF is your problem with the Northshore? You look for anything to make New Orleans look better than St. Tammany.
I was wondering why David Duke was back in town.
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