Order member, Gary Yarbrough, 14 Words

Gary Lee Yarbrough, 62, passed away early Monday morning at the United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, a facility best known as Supermax.

His wife, Susan Hillman Yarbrough, confirmed the death in a Facebook post to the group “Freedom for Gary Yarbrough.”

Yarbrough, who was scheduled for release from prison on October 28, 2024, was one of three surviving members of The Order incarcerated in federal prison.

He spent 35 years in federal custody.

On the “Right Voice” show of 4 April 2018, his widow Susan said he was never treated for cataracts and was blind at his death, dying of liver cancer in a hospice.

In 2014 he should have been paroled but it was rejected because other people were posting things online about him! This meant he was “associating with white nationalists!”

The others, 66-year-old Randolph George Duey, and 70-year-old Richard Scutari, are scheduled for release from prison in 2043 and 2025, respectively.

Another member of The Order, 55-year-old David Tate, is serving life in prison at Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston, Missouri. He was convicted of fatally shooting a state trooper in 1985.

Yarbrough had been ill in recent months as he pushed for parole from federal prison, but his efforts kept failing because of his alleged ties to white supremacist groups. While he publicly disavowed any association with the groups, White separatists continued to push his cause and claim allegiance to him.

Arkansas White Nationalist, Billy Roper, who claims a long association with Yarbrough, posted updates about Yarbrough on the alt-right social media site Gab, saying on Saturday that the inmate’s family was visiting him at the prison hospice.

“He is calm and brave to the end,” Roper wrote.

Susan Yarbrough wrote on a blog and Facebook that Gary Yarbrough was diagnosed with cancer and likely didn’t have long to live.

In the last letter his wife posted on a blog, Gary Yarbrough talked of his remains being placed at a memorial cairn — a mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline — in Texas.

Yarbrough, the one-time security chief for Aryan Nations, wrote that dirt from the graves of Robert Jay Mathews, the founder of The Order, and David Eden Lane, the spiritual and intellectual backbone of the group, would be placed at the memorial, also.

“More details will follow after my passing over these bars to the stars,” Yarbrough wrote.

New York Times, “5 NEO-NAZIS GET STIFF SENTENCES FOR CRIME SPREE”, 1986:

Five members of a racist, right-wing group that purportedly sought to overthrow the United States Government were sentenced today to prison terms ranging from 40 to 100 years.

The members of the neo-Nazi group, the Order, were convicted under a Federal antiracketeering statute. Federal investigators had accused the group of carrying out a series of violent acts, including murder and armored car robberies, in an attempt to bring about a racist revolution.

One of the five defendants, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 30 years old of Sandpoint, Idaho., told Federal District Judge Walter T. McGovern that no matter what happened in court today, the movement would grow. ‘‘Blood will flow and it grieves me,’’ he said.

Mr. Yarbrough said he and his fellow defendants had been convicted in ‘‘a political trial’’ conducted by ‘‘a greedy, corrupt system.’’ He called himself ‘‘just a common man, worldly dumb but spiritually wise.’’ Charges Against Defendants

All five defendants were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy charges revolving around armored car robberies here and in California.

Judge McGovern sentenced Mr. Yarbrough to 60 years in prison in three 20-year terms to be served consecutively on each count of his conviction. Judges often impose concurrent sentences on conviction of multiple counts.

Bruce Carroll Pierce, 31, of Hayden Lake, Idaho, was sentenced to 100 years in five 20-year terms to be served consecutively. He was identified at the trial as the one who fatally shot Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show host who had been an outspoken critic of extremist groups such as the Order.

‘‘I am not going to waste my time or your time and beg for mercy,’’ Mr. Pierce told Judge McGovern. ‘‘Whatever I did, I did to bring honor to myself and glory to my brothers and glory to God.’‘

In the Government presentencing report provided to Judge McGovern, Assistant United States Attorney David E. Wilson said he and other prosecutors agreed they could not ‘‘recall ever having faced a defendant who was a more frightening danger to society’’ than Mr. Pierce. Mr. Wilson said Mr. Pierce ‘‘gunned down’’ Mr. Berg ‘‘only because he was Jewish’’ and took part in every single violent act committed by the conspirators. #100-Year Sentence A 100-year sentence in 20-year consecutive terms also was imposed on Randolph George Duey, 34, who was identified in the trial testimony as the one who fatally shot Walter E. West, a member of the Order who was suspected of being an informer.

Richard Kemp, 23, of Salinas, Calif., also identified in the trial as having helped kill Mr. West, was sentenced to 60 years. The government presentencing report called Mr. Kemp ‘‘an unrepentant armed robber and a cold-blooded murderer.’‘

Andrew Barnhill, 29, Missoula, Mont., was sentenced to 40 years in consecutive 20-year terms. His attorney, Anthony Savage, said the sentences were ‘‘more severe’’ than he expected. Mr. Savage said of Mr. Barnhill, ‘‘His religious views are right where they were in the beginning -he’s a white supremist.’‘

Robert Lee, the chief Federal probation officer for western Washington, said each of the five was rated at the top of the scale as worst parole and probation risks and that each would serve at least 10 years and perhaps 15 before being considered for parole.

Twenty-three members of the Order were indicted here on charges of racketeering and conspiracy that grew out of their actions purportedly to stage a racist revolution.

The Order was an offshoot of the Aryan Nations Church, which was centered in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Among the spectators in court today were Richard Butler, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, of which Mr. Yarbrough and Mr. Pierce were members. He was accompanied by Debbie Matthews, the widow of Robert Matthews, the leader of the Order, who died in a burning house on Whidbey Island, near here, in December 1984. The Order’s plans began to fall apart in 1984 when Thomas Martinez, a member, became an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and led Federal officers to a motel in Portland.

There the agents became involved in a gunfight with Mr. Matthews, who was wounded but escaped after wounding an agent. Mr. Yarbrough was captured in that encounter.

Before he died, Mr. Matthews put a letter into a computer network that Order members used as a bulletin board. In it he called for Mr. Martinez, by then a federally protected witness, to be decapitated.

A Federal jury in Boise, Idaho, began deliberating today after hearing evidence against Elden Cutler, who succeeded Mr. Yarbrough as security chief for the Aryan Nation Church. Mr. Cutler is accused of retaliation against a witness, of witness tampering and conspiracy to use interstate commerce to hire a murderer.

According to testimony at the trial, Mr. Cutler hired what he thought was a murderer and paid out $1,800 after he was shown a picture of Mr. Martinez with his head cut off. It was a manufactured picture and the man posing as the killer was an F.B.I. agent, the jury was told. Mr. Cutler’s defense was that he was entrapped.

On Friday, Judge McGovern will impose sentences on five other members of the Order, David Lane, Randall Evans, Frank Silva, Jean Craig and Ardie McBrearty.