Weird Little Guys

Raymond Turner

Just about every source of information about nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gets the name of one of his victims wrong. In my search for information about the man who was murdered in Falls Church, Virginia in August of 1979, I came up mostly empty. We've erased a man from the story of his own murder because it's easier to tell a story about a racist than it is to talk about racism. Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011 Moon, V. The middleburg mystique: A peek inside the gates of Middleburg, Virginia. Waverley Lee Media, LLC. 2016 Matthew Exline, We Have Been Waiting Too Long: The Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Loudoun County, Virginia. Have History Will Travel Press, 2020. Carole Townsend, Blood in the Soil. Skyhorse, 2016 Douglas, John E., Ann W. Burgess, et al. Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes. John Wiley and Sons, 2006. The Study of the Operation of Segregated Schools in Loudoun County, Virginia conducted by Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project Research Team University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/214704/The-Study-of-the-Operation-of-Segregated-Schools-in-Loudoun-County-Virginia_FINAL [https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/214704/The-Study-of-the-Operation-of-Segregated-Schools-in-Loudoun-County-Virginia_FINAL]  https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/index.cfm?fa=newsinfo.displayContent&theFile=content/deathPenalty/trial [https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/index.cfm?fa=newsinfo.displayContent&theFile=content/deathPenalty/trial] https://www.aclunorcal.org/app/uploads/2010/03/costs_of_death_penalty_trials.pdf [https://www.aclunorcal.org/app/uploads/2010/03/costs_of_death_penalty_trials.pdf] https://fds.duke.edu/db?attachment-34--1667-view-301 https://fds.duke.edu/db?attachment-34--1667-view-301 [https://fds.duke.edu/db?attachment-34--1667-view-301] https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/259-0162-0007_ShilohBaptistChurch_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/259-0162-0007_ShilohBaptistChurch_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf [https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/259-0162-0007_ShilohBaptistChurch_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/04/26/middleburg/74b1854a-dca2-4b45-8bc5-7999ab4e015c/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/04/26/middleburg/74b1854a-dca2-4b45-8bc5-7999ab4e015c/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/04/26/middleburg/74b1854a-dca2-4b45-8bc5-7999ab4e015c/] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/05/loudoun-county-segregated-schools-reparations/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/05/loudoun-county-segregated-schools-reparations/]  http://www.virginiaplaces.org/government/constitution1902.html [http://www.virginiaplaces.org/government/constitution1902.html] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/08/21/turner-raymond-elton/4ae0ab2f-ef82-477d-a8f8-39ababc4c72c/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/08/21/turner-raymond-elton/4ae0ab2f-ef82-477d-a8f8-39ababc4c72c/]  https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/files/original/62047/1014789_EWP_2-5A_Yr_1930_CountyWide_on_Gibbons_Lot.pdf [https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/files/original/62047/1014789_EWP_2-5A_Yr_1930_CountyWide_on_Gibbons_Lot.pdf] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 5

After Joseph Paul Franklin was arrested in 1980, prosecutors all over the country were waiting their turn to try him for murder. After a federal prosecutor failed to convince a jury that shooting a man just for being black was a civil rights violation, they lost their confidence. But Joseph Paul Franklin was desperate to get out of the federal prison where he was serving his first few life sentences. Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011 Thomas Martinez, Brotherhood of Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of The Order. McGraw Hill, 1988 Jessica Mitford, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, New York, Vintage Books, 1973 Devins, Neal, "Reagan Redux: Civil Rights Under Bush" (1993). Faculty Publications. 429. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/429 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/06/28/reynolds-nomination-voted-down/115c0520-c848-4c17-a302-209a9a9d5a4a/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/06/28/reynolds-nomination-voted-down/115c0520-c848-4c17-a302-209a9a9d5a4a/] https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/28/us/senate-committee-rejects-reynolds-for-justice-post.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/28/us/senate-committee-rejects-reynolds-for-justice-post.html] https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/07/us/us-rights-official-discounts-tension.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/07/us/us-rights-official-discounts-tension.html] https://virginiamercury.com/2019/04/22/can-a-local-prosecutor-decide-to-just-stop-prosecuting-marijuana-cases-the-va-supreme-court-will-decide/ [https://virginiamercury.com/2019/04/22/can-a-local-prosecutor-decide-to-just-stop-prosecuting-marijuana-cases-the-va-supreme-court-will-decide/] https://www.hcpros.org/case-vault-1 [https://www.hcpros.org/case-vault-1] https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/us/slayer-faces-trial-in-2-apparently-racial-killings.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/us/slayer-faces-trial-in-2-apparently-racial-killings.html] https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_v._Lanza [https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_v._Lanza] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/dual-sovereignty-doctrine [https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/dual-sovereignty-doctrine] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/] https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Utah-AG-Report.pdf [https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Utah-AG-Report.pdf] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4403054/mitchell-v-roberts/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4403054/mitchell-v-roberts/] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-02-mn-747-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-02-mn-747-story.html]  https://people.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html [https://people.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html]  https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.journal.prisons.prisoners.griffin.1993.pdf [https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.journal.prisons.prisoners.griffin.1993.pdf]  https://concrim.asc41.com/wp-content/uploads/j32.pdf [https://concrim.asc41.com/wp-content/uploads/j32.pdf]  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/23/murders-of-blacks-baffle-us-officials/f8eefeac-1ca3-48de-85a0-4b9db645b01e/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/23/murders-of-blacks-baffle-us-officials/f8eefeac-1ca3-48de-85a0-4b9db645b01e/]  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/24/us/study-accuses-justice-dept-of-waging-attack-on-civil-rights-laws.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/24/us/study-accuses-justice-dept-of-waging-attack-on-civil-rights-laws.html]  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/10/marion-prison-lockdown-thomas-silverstein-how-a-1983-murder-created-america-s-terrible-supermax-prison-culture.html [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/10/marion-prison-lockdown-thomas-silverstein-how-a-1983-murder-created-america-s-terrible-supermax-prison-culture.html] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 4

When Joseph Paul Franklin hit the road to start his killing spree, his movements seemed completely random. But what if they weren't? Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011 Fine, Morris, and Milton Himmelfard. American Jewish Year Book 1979. 1978. Frenkel, Margaret. American synagogue directory, 1963 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25016217 [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25016217] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4300634/zink-v-lombardi/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4300634/zink-v-lombardi/] https://isthmus.com/archive/from-the-archives/in-cold-blood/ [https://isthmus.com/archive/from-the-archives/in-cold-blood/] https://www.almd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-04/OH-transcript-baxley.pdf [https://www.almd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-04/OH-transcript-baxley.pdf] https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/14/timeline-hate-filled-life/7712569/ [https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/14/timeline-hate-filled-life/7712569/] https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2000/sc-81859-1.html [https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2000/sc-81859-1.html] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 3

Last week, we looked at the nazi newletters serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was probably reading in the leadup to his killing spree. But there is one thing we know for certain he was reading: Hustler. Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011 Jonathan Golomb, Regulation of Indecency in Political Broadcasting, 13 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 69 (1979). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol13/iss1/5 https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin [https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/12/archives/antiobscenity-drive-disputed-in-atlanta-prosecutors-campaign-widely.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/12/archives/antiobscenity-drive-disputed-in-atlanta-prosecutors-campaign-widely.html]  https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/10/archives/a-bullet-paralyzed-flynt-below-waist-his-doctor-reports-operating.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/10/archives/a-bullet-paralyzed-flynt-below-waist-his-doctor-reports-operating.html] https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/convicted-killer-avowed-racist-tells-of-a-life-of-rage-hatred/article_c2093272-4768-52d2-8c0b-2e0bf719c1b1.html [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/convicted-killer-avowed-racist-tells-of-a-life-of-rage-hatred/article_c2093272-4768-52d2-8c0b-2e0bf719c1b1.html] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 2

In 1977, Joseph Paul Franklin started his three year killing spree, but he wasn't the only neo-nazi who murdered for the movement that summer. Sources: Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Taylor & Francis. Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020 Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011 Gardell, Mattias. “Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide.” Cambridge University Press eBooks, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609760. Bart Schuurman, Lasse Lindekilde, Stefan Malthaner, Francis O'Connor, Paul Gill & Noémie Bouhana (2017): End of the Lone Wolf: The Typology that Should Not Have Been, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1419554 Jeffrey Kaplan (2014) Mel Ayton. Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin , Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:5, 855-857 See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.