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Killing Sex Offenders: The Apparent Hypocrisy of Crew 41
Posted By Hatewatch Staff On July 29, 2013 @ 2:44 pm In Extremist Crime,Neo-Nazi,Skinheads | 39 Comments
Jonathan Schmidt and friendsJeremy Moody, a member of a small but violent racist skinhead gang called Crew 41 [1], shocked South Carolina authorities last week when he told them that he and his wife shot and stabbed to death a middle-aged couple July 21 because the man was a registered sex offender.
But if ridding the world of sex offenders was Moody’s goal, he didn’t have to go outside of his crew to find one.
The head of the gang’s Colorado chapter, Archie Glen Ware Jr., is a registered sex offender, convicted of “accosting for immoral purposes.”
Indeed, the criminal resumés of the members of Crew 41 are long and violent and include charges of attempted murder; witness intimidation, armed robbery, aggravated assault and most recently double homicide.
The same day of the double homicide in South Carolina, 1,200 miles away near Kearney, Neb., Jonathan Schmidt, the founder of Crew 41, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault in a brutal attack July 20 that left a man with a fractured skull.
A few days after the assault, Schmidt, known as “Monster,” lamented his and his crew’s fate. He wrote on VK, a European version of Facebook, “I am out on bail facing 50 years in prison. And our South Carolina chapter has been picked up on murder charges. Having a hard first year but hopefully things turn around for us.”
After the crew’s sergeant-at-arms, Ryan Hesse, was arrested in 2001 on a warrant for investigation of attempted murder, Salt Lake County (Utah) sheriff’s deputies discovered two explosive devices [2] in his briefcase. The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s complex had to be evacuated.
Ryan Hesse Sargeant at ArmsAnother member of the crew, Tyler Palson, 24, was charged last year, according to local news accounts, [3] with making terroristic threats, harassment and stalking after threating to burn down a house and murder the family living there in central Pennsylvania.
Moody, 30, and his wife, Christine, 36, appear to make up the entire South Carolina chapter of Crew 41. On her Facebook page, Christine Moody thanked the gang for accepting their membership: “Special thanks to Crew 41 for welcoming Jeremy & I with such open arms. May the 14 words live on forever 841!!!” [The “14 Words” are a famous white supremacist catchphrase, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.” The 41 in neo-Nazi code stands for the fourth and first letters of the alphabet, D and A, which stands for the other name for Crew 41, Die Auserwählten, German meaning “the chosen few.” The 8 before the 41 stands for H, which presumably means “Heil,” as in Heil Die Auserwählten.”]
Christine Moody, who calls herself “a veteran skinbyrd,” was also apparently trying to recruit more members in South Carolina. “Looks like I may have a good potential prospect,” she wrote on Facebook. “Things are looking up. 841!!!
Union County Sheriff David H. Taylor said that Christine Moody was tight-lipped when first arrested but in recent days has been talking a lot “because she’s pissed off she’s not getting as much attention” as her husband.
“She wants to get the glory,” Taylor said.
So far, she is getting equal billing when it comes to criminal charges. Additional charges were filed against the couple today, including two counts each of burglary and two counts each of kidnapping. The skinhead and his skinbyrd were each charged with two counts of murder last week.
“He shot both of them and she stabbed both of them,” Taylor said. “She cut the woman’s throat.
“I’m going to tell you,” the sheriff added, “she’s cold as hell.”
Taylor said the Moodys told investigators they planned to travel to Nebraska in late August for Crew 41’s now-cancelled first meet and greet. “Anybody with any association with this bunch,” the sheriff said, “is trying to dump them like a bad cold.”
The Moodys have been charged with killing Charles Parker, 59, a registered sex offender and his wife, Gretchen Parker, 51, on Sunday, July 21, in their home in Union County South, Carolina. Moody told investigators that he picked Charles Parker out from a sex offender registry. The head of the gang’s Colorado chapter is on a similar registry.
As for why Parker’s wife was killed, Taylor said that Moody explained, “She was a casualty of war.”
Jonathan SchmidtBeyond its violent membership, what is unusual about Crew 41 is the way and speed in which it came into existence and started spilling blood.
Crew 41 was essentially created online. Few, if any of the gang members, have actually met face-to-face. The crew was scheduled to hold a meet and greet in a small town in Nebraska where Schmidt, the founder, lives. But the gathering was recently cancelled.
Schmidt began the gang on Jan. 28, three days after resigning his post as “National Director” of the Aryan Terror Brigade (ATB).
Six months later, the two South Carolina victims were brutally murdered.
Schmidt resigned from ATB under a cloud of suspicion. Schmidt was accused online of being a police informant.
“So apparently people are saying I am a confidential informant,” Schmidt wrote on his VK page on Feb. 8. “It makes me laugh and at the same time it makes me sick. Better have something in your hand before my name ever leaves your mouth. I live in Pleasanton, Nebraska and I am not real hard to find if you have something to say to me.”
Schmidt is heavily tattooed from his arms to his torso to most of his 28-year-old face. There’s a large swastika in the middle of his chest and “Ladies Loves” above that and runes, or medieval Germanic letters, on his left eyebrow that spell out “Hate.”
“People who are Rocking patches or call themselves white nationalists…but not doing ANYTHING to actually further their race are really just waisting [sic] time and really making the movement look terrible,” Schmidt wrote on VK on May 30. “So lets just say this…either start living the 14/88/9 [88 stands for “Heil Hitler”] or just get the fuck out and go join the punk scene or something…iam [sic] not against old school skinhead tradition or any of it but there is a difference…a lot of guys say they are white nationalist but have never done anything to help move our race forward.”
No one can say that Crew 41 hasn’t been busy.
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[1] violent racist skinhead gang called Crew 41: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/25/members-of-new-skinhead-gang-accused-in-two-states/
[2] discovered two explosive devices: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/864489/Explosive-devices-prompt-evacuation.html?pg=all
[3] according to local news accounts,: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/north_middleton_township_man_t_1.html
[4] : http://www.wyff4.com/news/local-news/laurens-union-news/double-homicide-suspect-targeted-sex-offender/-/9654846/21141770/-/157vl5e/-/index.html#ixzz2aeODUsRu
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39 Comments To "Killing Sex Offenders: The Apparent Hypocrisy of Crew 41"
#1 Comment By Gregory On July 29, 2013 @ 3:49 pm
If these people represent the future, then extinction can’t be all that bad.
#2 Comment By Reynardine On July 29, 2013 @ 4:44 pm
And if these guys represent the future of “the White race”, then the latter is fixing to get Darwinned.
#3 Comment By Aron On July 29, 2013 @ 4:57 pm
Wowzers. I thought he was attractive before. His liver must be navy blue by now.
#4 Comment By Aron On July 29, 2013 @ 4:58 pm
Also, not digging the new layout. A little too busy.
#5 Comment By GardensButterfly On July 29, 2013 @ 4:59 pm
These people are morons! They are just wanna bes with no education and no future, they just pretend to be human beings. The good thing is…the US is changing and the white race is no longer the majority…and there is NOTHING they can do about it!
That being said, theyll kill off themselves. Only the utmost of idiots let the very type of person that they are against run the show! Just plain stupid!
#6 Comment By Northland10 On July 29, 2013 @ 5:15 pm
Interesting how claim “pride” in the color of their skin and then proceed to cover it completely in tattoos.
#7 Comment By Kiwiwriter On July 29, 2013 @ 6:51 pm
Wow…and these guys really think they’re the “Aryan Elite.”
And the head of the bunch is himself a sex offender.
The staggering hypocrisy of these guys just cannot be made up.
#8 Comment By Steve On July 29, 2013 @ 8:01 pm
I’m interested in the fact that, “Crew 41 was essentially created online. Few, if any of the gang members, have actually met face-to-face.”
What are the mechanisms for “spontaneous generation” of gangs. Are there any studies published on this subject?
#9 Comment By Eliana Liorit On July 29, 2013 @ 9:08 pm
You know what is really hypocritical about this? They totally excuse the behavior of other WN rapist/pedophiles/wife beaters like Steven Turpel, Steven Eugene Speers, Mark Martin, Jon Snyder, Kevin Strom, et al.
Very sick people!
#10 Comment By Sam Molloy On July 29, 2013 @ 10:53 pm
They are having a hard year?
#11 Comment By Scott A. Branch On July 29, 2013 @ 11:04 pm
So sad, if any of these white monkeys could prove their geneological heritage 8+ generations back on both sides and were found to be “pure”, that would be astonishing in and of itself, but we all know that’s not the case, they are comprised of a varied array of muts just like the majority of americans. So on that note, these types of extremest hate groups don’t seem to realize that not only are they NOT a majority of the Amercan fiber, nor are they even relative or substantial to the vast legions of the truly patriotic body that we so proudly call the great melting pot! Oh, and by the way, for anyone caring to actually know, the genome procces linking everyone of us to the birthplace of mankind, our great African mother….In conclusion for this little learning session is that in an ironic twist of fate, an unamed “leader” of an unamed “recently spotlighted” hate group is married to a mixed breed himself, sporting black heritage as recently as 4 generations ago, not to mention a solid half dozen other ethnicities, fact, I would know, I am unfortunately her father (blood so no one is confused here, these types like to call anyone who will succomb to there idiocy family, like manson) , so doesn’t that make this unamed individual, in fact, a race trader himself…..
#12 Comment By Erika On July 30, 2013 @ 8:14 am
aron, you are soooo right that he’s like so totally dreamy . . .
seriously, i think i’ve seen him in my nightmares before ;)
#13 Comment By Reynardine On July 30, 2013 @ 9:23 am
Erika, you’re right. Many years ago, while in the throes of delirium flu, I dreamt I was trying to get back to my bed and go to sleep, only to find Josef Stalin in it. This would be worse… much worse.
#14 Comment By Erika On July 30, 2013 @ 12:13 pm
i’m not entirely sure there is hypocracy here because i don’t necessarily believe that Moody is telling the truth for the motives of the South Carolina Nazi Party [come on, we need to laugh at the fact that the Moodys were in fact their entire South Carolina chapter -i mean, seriously, how can you not read: ."And our South Carolina chapter has been picked up on murder charges" and not laugh at the utter patheticness of these losers???] in committing the murders.
Both the Parkers and the Moodys have been charged with drug distributin so that could be the motive. Personal grievance of another kind could be a motive. Wanting the thrill of killing someone is another possible motive. Maybe they are just nuts. And then there is still robbery as a possible motive.
i don’t think we should simply take Moody’s word for why he acted – he may well realize that in South Carolina he could face the death penalty and the Fourth Circuit is a big fan of the “he just needs killin’” form of jurisprudence and realize that making people think that he is a vigilante who killed Parker because he is a sex ofender.is his only shot to stay alive. After all, its quite possible that some jurors might agree that Parker was someone who just needed killin’
#15 Comment By CM On July 30, 2013 @ 12:37 pm
It’s probably too much to expect people like Crew 41, who are barely literate in English, to get their German right, but “auserwählte,” if you aren’t going to put the required umlaut over the second a, should be transliterated as “auserwaehlte.” (We’ll find out now if the comment software can handle an umlaut.)
#16 Comment By Georgia Citizen On July 30, 2013 @ 12:58 pm
I guess inb the eyes of the laws in America. Sex offenders has the same rights as everybody else.
Thanks for nothing!!!
#17 Comment By daisy On July 30, 2013 @ 2:53 pm
Time for Clarksville residents to think long and hard about private schools, methinks.
#18 Comment By Jurlique On July 30, 2013 @ 3:25 pm
Erika, you’re right. During last year’s “summer slam” (Or whatever it was called), the victims and the murderers were picked up for drug charges. The victims’ charges were dismissed and Mr. Moody pled guilty to his charges. Apparently it appears to be related to some narcing. BUt I’m sure the sheriff in Union doesn’t want that connection to be made. That town has a tendency to screw over their narcs. They don’t care what happens to them.
There were others on the sex offender registry he could have chosen, but it just so happened to be the ones whose drug charges were dismissed after he pled.
#19 Comment By Taylor Dunlap On July 30, 2013 @ 3:41 pm
These people are freaking idiots, Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, and to save our lives, not so that we could take the lives of the ones he saved. These people should not have access to nothing but prison or hell. You deserve hell if you act like the devil himself. The white race was made to be equal with the African American race and any other. Makes me sick to know there are people in this world in such evil presence.
#20 Comment By concernedcitizen On July 30, 2013 @ 6:12 pm
I agree with you Gregory and I know there is a God because the people I know who are representative of the White race were never like that.
There are some real low lives that run around town stalking and promoting hate but never the type of people you would ever want in your center of influence.
Troubled, lost and lacking in any real direction except self loathing and taking it out on others because they lack the courage to take charge of their existence.
#21 Comment By jon On July 30, 2013 @ 10:47 pm
Its people like this who make us look bad and I really wish that people on the outside of our lifestyle could realize one thing. NOT ALL OF US SKINHEADS ARE LIKE THESE PEOPLE!!
#22 Comment By Ron On July 31, 2013 @ 6:23 am
We need a registry for stupid people. They are the most dangerous and should not be allowed to breed.
#23 Comment By Reynardine On July 31, 2013 @ 8:47 am
Ron: just see to it their sex eddication doesn’t include anything that can make kids.
#24 Comment By BLF On July 31, 2013 @ 9:16 am
Jurlique and Erika, the Parker’s had audio/video surveillance in their home. The police have Jeremy Moody on camera saying, “I’m not here to rob you. I’m here to kill you because you’re a sex offender.”
#25 Comment By Erika On July 31, 2013 @ 12:05 pm
BLF, according to the news reports the cameras were on the outside of the home and the police saw the Moodys entering the house, but there is no report that the murders itself were caught on tape – not the interior – and the quote came from the statement that Moody gave the police. Its extremely doubtful that outside surveilance cameras have equipped with audio recording .
In any case, you still have to believe the word of a pair of Nazi skinheads and acussde killers who could possibly face a capital charge. i don’t. People charged with crimes will often try to say anything that might work in an effort to try to save their bacon.
#26 Comment By Scott A. Branch On July 31, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
Would that most recent comment from “jon”, be “jon the P.O.S. assailent” in the Kearney case of last week, if so you can shut the hell up, no one wants to hear from idiots like you, you don’t even deserve to speak on open forum centered around these etrocities!!!! If you are not that jon, you’d be wise to make it shockingly clear who you are, and you’ll still get no appology or concession from a real man, anyone that harbors and perpetuates the seeds of hatemongering has no place in general society, you simply do not deserve to benefit in any way, shape or form, from all that the good people of the world work so fervently for, that our children may live in a better and smarter world than the one we were born into., Have anything to say “jon”?!?!?!?
#27 Comment By BLF On July 31, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
Erika, I agree that believing the word of a pair of Nazi skinheads would be dubious to say the least. But this is a quote from the report on WYFF: Butch Parker was recorded on camera saying, “We don’t have any money.” Jeremy Moody responded, “I’m not here to rob you. I’m here to kill you because you’re a child molester.”
“He has admitted to killing both individuals,” Taylor said.
Read more: [4]
#28 Comment By oncefallendotcom On July 31, 2013 @ 11:48 pm
In another article, it was mentioned that Moody wrote a book called “Yesterday, today, & forever” available on Lulu.
In it is a two page rant about eliminating sex offenders AND THEIR ENTIRE FAMILIES to keep the race pure. You can see it plain as day in the preview, on about page 5.
#29 Comment By jon On August 1, 2013 @ 12:19 am
No Scott A Branch I am not affiliated with crew41. How the hell did you come up with that?
#30 Comment By jon On August 1, 2013 @ 12:30 am
And Scott A Branch, just because I defend and believe in white pride does not make me a hate monger. Who do I hate? Is it wrong to be prideful of my race. I have never attacked anyone ever because of the color of their skin or what the believe in. I have no criminal record and give respect to anyone who respects me. I believe in liberty for all not for some. I am a good man who works hard and takes care of his family. You are making a snap judgment on me w/out knowing anything about me. So who is the hate monger now? I have never even been to Nebraska.
#31 Comment By Reynardine On August 1, 2013 @ 9:54 am
Jon, you be proud of whatever you actually accomplish. Though it was dratted clever of you to pick being a white male.
#32 Comment By jon On August 1, 2013 @ 11:51 am
@Reynardine, I do not fully understand what you mean by “dratted Cleaver” ?
#33 Comment By jon On August 1, 2013 @ 11:57 am
And I didn’t pick being a white male. I really don’t think anyone has a choice in who brings them into this world.
#34 Comment By Ruslan Amirkhanov On August 1, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
“Is it wrong to be prideful of my race. ”
Your “race” doesn’t exist, and if that’s all you have to be proud of, I feel sorry for you.
#35 Comment By jon On August 1, 2013 @ 2:05 pm
@Ruslan, why does my race not exist? And I never once said that is all I have to be proud of. I am father, a husband and grandfather. I have worked hard my whole life. I have built and sold my own home then built another one. My children have graduated high school and have started successful lives of their own. The more you talk ignorantly the more it shows that you are the racist hate mongers. Its OK to walk the streets wearing native pride,brown pride, Jew pride…. Proudly on your backs but if I wear white pride on mine you label me racist. You should feel sorry for yourselves.
#36 Comment By Gregory On August 1, 2013 @ 5:11 pm
Where can I get one of these Jew Pride shirts?
LMAO. Thanks for playing, jon.
#37 Comment By julia On August 2, 2013 @ 8:25 am
Race is an illusion and does not exist. We are all human beings. Period. The notion of race is a made up concept created by man, not by God. Race is one of the primary things that have caused unnecessary divisions and problems in this world.
#38 Comment By Erika On August 2, 2013 @ 8:36 am
jon, there is a reason why my German/Polish Jewish great-grandparents owned German language copies of Lutheran prayer books – and that was despite the fact that from what i understand they left Europe around 1919/1920. If you would understand that reason, you can understand why “white pride” is riduculous in ways that people taking pride in other cultures is not.
#39 Comment By Reynardine On August 2, 2013 @ 8:38 am
Jon, you’ve done what most Americans, given even a modest opportunity, have done or would do. All that your enormously clever skin did for you was ensure that you weren’t denied that opportunity on grounds of pigment. I never wore anything pride on my T shirts, and never knew anyone who did. When I ordered slogans on T- shirts, it was usually dirty Latin phrases from Catullus. That was a long time ago. Now, you’re squeaking like a rusty hinge. Maybe you need (censored. Peace, Hays Office!)