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'Blue Eyed Devil' White Supremacist Jailed Without Bond Until Trial

Joliet man charged with torching a black family's home has been arrested for hate crimes in the past.

 

With "Blue Eyed Devil" tattooed on the back of his shaved head, avowed white supremacist Brian Moudry claimed to "understand English fluently" as he pleaded not guilty to torching the home of a black family living down the street from him in Joliet.

Moudry, a disciple of incarcerated white power leader Matt Hale, made his first court appearance Thursday morning at the Dirksen Federal Building.

He was arrested Wednesday in Joliet on charges of arson, using fire to interfere with housing rights on the basis of race and using fire to commit another felony.

Moudry, 35, allegedly set fire to the home of a black family as they slept in June 2007. The eight children and one adult escaped the blaze without injury. They have since moved out of Joliet, an official said.

Moudry, who has claimed to be a reverend in a race-based church, has run afoul of the law before in connection with his white supremacist efforts.

In 1999, he was arrested for allegedly using racial slurs to threaten two people in New Lenox. He was charged with aggravated assault and a hate crime.

In July 2010, he was arrested for allegedly menacing his mailman and threatening to plant a bomb in the letter carrier's truck. The postal worker was a black man, police said at the time.

He also has a unlawful use of a weapon case pending in Will County Circuit Court.

In March 2005, federal agents hauled Moudry and some of his associates in for questioning after Hale—the national leader of a racist group to which Moudry belonged—was suspected of ordering the execution-style slayings of Michael Lefkow and Donna Humphrey, husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.

The killings turned out to be unrelated to Hale, Moudry or their group.

Hale is in prison for plotting to kill Judge Lefkow prior to the murder of her husband and mother. Lefkow had ordered Hale to change the name of his white power organization after he lost a trademark lawsuit.

In the past nine years Moudry organized a series of white power rallies in and around Joliet. His house in Joliet's sleepy Reedswood neighborhood was targeted in a gun attack following a 2004 white power demonstration.

The heavily tattooed Moudry, who in addition to "Blue Eyed Devil" tattoo also sports drawings of horns and the logo of the Nazi SS paramilitary organization on his head, was led into court shackled at his wrists and ankles.

Moudry was represented Friday by MiAngel Cody, a court-appointed federal public defender. In his court appearance, Moudry showed no outward reaction to the fact his attorney is black.

Moudry was the second person charged in the Reed Street blaze. Marcin Golebiowski, 34, of Des Plaines, was arrested in the immediate aftermath of the fire. He was charged with aggravated arson and arson. The charges were dropped nine months later.

Moudry was subpoenaed to testify in Golebiowski's case.

Even though he was the self-proclaimed leader of Joliet's white power movement, none of Moudry's associates have been charged in the alleged arson.

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Related Topics: Arson, Fire, Racism, and white power

Marilynn Reinhardt

9:30 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

Here is someone who is pure evil & should be removed from society. He has no regard for human life and is a waste of space.

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Flora Dora

10:11 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

it's difficult to come to terms with such evil. He needs to be stopped.

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Seamus Magilicuty

10:56 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

I know the guy personally, and he's pretty mellow -- he has his views, but he did time in the past and isn't anxious to go back. He has been keeping his nose clean because he does lead a group and often is under scrutiny due to stupid things his membership and their associated do. I support his right to rally as speaking his mind is his legal right, and remember he hasn't been convicted of anything just charged. That doesn't mean he's guilty... keep it together..

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Freddie Kissell

11:02 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

Yeah, Seamus, he probably didn't do it. He looks like a mild-mannered kinda guy who may have threatened to kill black people in the past, but would never do such a thing as burn down their house, for goodness sake.

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Seamus Magilicuty

11:39 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

Don't mistake someones lack of putting up with someones crap as aggression. I don't agree with his views at all other than the obvious racial components of welfare and the like which most people can arrive at through their own thinking. The only trouble he has gotten into in ten years is when people provoke him -- he just won't take it. Neither will I, and I am not even a white supremacist. He is aware the law doesn't provide for his safety and he acts accordingly, and he lives in an area full of other races which cause him problems (shooting at his house) so how do you expect him to feel about these folks?

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Jahanabek

12:20 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

No one was causing him problems when he would stand in his front yard screaming at the top of his lungs about white power and f the n**s either but I got to explain to my black children why some people feel that way. There's a difference between not taking crap from someone and having pure hatred in your heart for anyone different from you. I lived on that street and was witness to many of his tirades, none provoked. And the law does provide for his safety, much more than it did the rest of us, who had to always keep one eye open as to what he might do next. I am all for freedom of speech but I also believe we deserved to live in peace in our own homes, not be forced to listen to racist rants by a disturbed man.

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Bethany

12:31 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

Yes Seamus because some people shot at his house that means he should hate an entire race. Great logic. And just because someone is trying to provoke a reaction from you, does not mean you should follow through. Grow up. He's a guy who hates blacks because he can, nothing else. There is no excuse.

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Hugo

6:45 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

His nose is very crooked.

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blackman

7:39 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

Nice tattoos...I see 666 all over this guy.were is the peace sign tat or Jesus love you tat?????

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Indra

8:07 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

This is not the dream Martin Luther King Jr had. We are all one. Black, white, brown, red or blue is just a color under it all we bleed the same color. Racism needs to stop we you.

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MidwestGal

2:35 pm on Saturday, June 2, 2012

The neck tat/face tat... a sign of an intelligent, peace-bringing member of society. It's obvious he is full of the devil - good thing the family got out safely....protected by a loving God. When found guilty let him rot in jail... he'll get what's coming to him.

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ebb nexus

1:19 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012

Seamus- you talked about the racial component to welfare- are you aware that there are, still to this day, more whites on welfare than any other racial or ethnic group. I often wonder if people even try to read or are just satisfied living in ignorant bliss...

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