Intelligence Report: Klan Leader Accused in Slaying 'Threatened Everybody,' Coerced Sons To Join, Wife Says
The Louisiana Klan leader indicted for the murder of a woman who
tried to quit his group coerced three of his sons to join the Klan and used threats of violence to keep members from leaving, according to an interview with his wife in the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center's
Intelligence Report, released today. The case has brought back troubling memories of a town where Klansmen fiercely resisted the civil rights movement.
Theresa Foster said her husband, Raymond Charles "Chuck" Foster, "threatened everybody," creating the volatile atmosphere surrounding Cynthia Lynch's death last November near Bogalusa, La. She also describes the days leading up to Lynch's death and her attempt to dissuade the Oklahoma woman from joining the Klan.
"The way I look at it is, Raymond Foster is wholly to blame for what happened," she told the Intelligence Report.
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