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Outlaws Motorcycle Club Enforcer Randall "Madman" Miller Denied Compassionate Release Serving 2 Life Sentence. Claims He Found GOD So Does Big Jim Nolan Who Once Chopped The Off The Arms Of A Prostitute.
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Outlaws Motorcycle Club ‘enforcer’ denied compassionate release, ‘showed no compassion’ in killing McHenry County couple
Randall “Madman” Miller wanted out under the First Step Act from life in prison. He took part in a couple’s killings near Richmond in 1993, slitting the man’s throat, and other violence during a war with the Hells Angels.
By Robert Herguth Apr 8, 2022, 4:00am PDT
Arrest photo of Randall “Madman” Miller, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, is serving two life sentences for a 2000 racketeering conviction that included killings, bombings and other violence.
Randall “Madman” Miller, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, is serving two life sentences for a 2000 racketeering conviction that included killings, bombings and other violence.
Randall “Madman” Miller used to thunder across the Midwest on a Harley-Davidson as a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, always ready with a knife, a gun, even a bomb.
Often, that was while defending the honor of his biker gang against the Hells Angels, the blood enemy of the Outlaws.
These days, Miller gets around in a wheelchair, not a motorcycle, while serving two life sentences in federal prison on a racketeering conviction that encompassed a series of violent crimes, including the 1993 killings of Morris and Ruth Gauger, a couple in their 70s who ran a business near the McHenry County town of Richmond.
He’s a changed man, the onetime violent biker gang member and drug trafficker has said in court pleadings and devoted to God now, with his mobility greatly limited since a leg was amputated.
Citing poor health and his fears of COVID-19 in prison, he asked U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller for a compassionate release from prison under the federal First Step Act, which, among other things, allows federal convicts to seek reductions in their sentences for drug crimes and lets elderly and sick inmates seek compassionate releases.
He recently got his answer: an emphatic no.
“Our criminal justice system has the capacity for — indeed the goal to promote — remorse and compassion,” Stadtmueller, who is based in Milwaukee and who, at Miller’s sentencing in 2000 indicated he was sorry the law didn’t allow him to impose the death penalty, said in a ruling Feb. 14. “But healing requires time and adequately served punishment.”
U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller in rejecting a request for a compassionate release from prison for Randall “Madman” Miller, whose crimes included the killings of an elderly couple in McHenry County: “Perhaps this case will one day be ripe for compassionate release, but 24 years is not yet sufficient time.”C-SPAN 2
“Perhaps this case will one day be ripe for compassionate release, but 24 years” — the time Miller has been in custody since his arrest — “is not yet sufficient time for the community’s hurt from defendant’s actions to be healed by his punishment and outweighed by his failing health,” Stadtmueller wrote. “Defendant is receiving adequate care in prison for his health needs.”
Miller, 62, is one of the many federal prisoners who have sought compassionate release, citing age and bad health, under the First Step Act, which was enacted with bipartisan support, championed by rapper Kanye West and signed into law by then-President Donald Trump in 2018.
Larry Hoover, co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang, described by prosecutors as “one of the most notorious criminals in Illinois history,” was rejected last year in his bid for release under that law.
Others who have won an early release from prison include Orville “Orvie” Cochran, a former Chicago Outlaws boss. A judge granted him a compassionate release last year, six months before his five-year sentence for racketeering conspiracy involving attacks on rival gang members was up. Cochran had cited health concerns.
Gregg Gauger, the Gaugers’ oldest son, had asked the judge in October to keep Miller behind bars.
“It shouldn’t matter if Mr. Miller were to contract the COVID virus while incarcerated,” Gauger wrote to the judge. “The essential meaning of Miller’s sentence is that he is intended to end his earthly days confined to federal prison.
“As the death penalty was not applicable to Miller’s sentence, please at this time reaffirm the life sentence without parole (or early release) that you so properly imposed at Miller’s original sentencing.”
Morris and Ruth Gauger in the mid- to late 1940s.
Morris and Ruth Gauger in the mid- to late 1940s. Randall “Madman” Miller “slit Mr. Gauger’s throat and left him to bleed to death on the floor of his shop,” according to prosecutors. They said Ruth Gauger was killed by an accomplice, “left to die on the floor of the small rug and trinket shop she operated” on the McHenry County couple’s farm.Provided
Gary Gauger, another son of the victims, initially was arrested for his parents’ killings and wrongfully convicted but eventually released from prison.
It came to light that Miller, from Pell Lake, Wisconsin, and James “Preacher” Schneider, an Outlaws member who lived in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, killed the couple, who ran a motorcycle parts business on their McHenry County farm.
Outlaws Motorcycle Club gang member James “Preacher” Schneider.
Outlaws Motorcycle Club gang member James “Preacher” Schneider.Provided
“Miller personally slit Mr. Gauger’s throat and left him to bleed to death on the floor of his shop,” prosecutors said in arguing against Miller’s early release. “Mrs. Gauger was killed by Miller’s companion and also left to die on the floor of the small rug and trinket shop she operated on the farm.”
They said: “Miller showed no compassion for either of these elderly people who were intentionally killed over what amounted to a small amount of pocket change” — about $15. “Nor did he show any compassion for the Gaugers’ adult son, who, following their murders, was wrongfully arrested for his parents’ deaths and, based on a coerced false confession, was convicted and sentenced to death.”
“The son’s case was only dismissed after the true facts of the crime were revealed by Miller’s accomplice, who pled guilty and testified against Miller.”
The federal prison medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, where Randall “Madman” Miller is being held.U.S. Bureau of Prisons
The building in Union Grove, Wisconsin, where the Outlaws Motorcycle Club chapter that included Randall “Madman” Miller met when he was an active member.Jim Slosiarek / Racine Journal Times via AP
Miller was convicted as part of a 1997 case involving 17 Outlaws members from Chicago, the suburbs, southeast Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.
According to prosecutors, among the other crimes included in the federal racketeering trial in which he was convicted, “Miller, who was proved to be among the most violent of the charged defendants, was found to have caused the homicide death of Donald Wagner, who was lured to a remote location by Miller and Outlaws associates and then executed by Miller, who shot him in the head with a .22-caliber pistol. The murder occurred over a load of marijuana.”
“Miller was also involved as a conspirator in the homicide death of Hells Angel Michael Quale, who was stabbed to death at the Erie County, New York, Lancaster Speedway. At the behest of the Buffalo Outlaw chapter president, Miller and a mob of other Outlaws and Outlaw affiliates traveled to New York to assault and kill rival bikers.”
Also, prosecutors wrote: “Miller pistol whipped and broke the nose of a female bartender during an assault and robbery at JR’s Tavern in Calumet City ... as his fellow Outlaws ordered patrons to the floor, broke glassware and fired shots inside the bar, including one that shattered the television. The massive attack ... was intended to intimidate the bar owners so that they would no longer cater to rival bikers.”
The “most horrific” of the crimes “were the homicides of Morris and Ruth Gauger.”
Gary Gauger, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his parents. Outlaws Motorcycle Club members Randall “Madman” Miller and James “Preacher” Schneider later were shown to have committed the murders.Brian Bohannon / The Courier-Journal via AP
Miller, who was described as an “enforcer” for the gang, has said in court filings he now “suffers from withering pain and a debilitating state of psychological, emotional and physical deterioration. Specifically, he points to rheumatoid arthritis, which he asserts affects his ability to use his hands and to gastroesophageal disease which affects his ability to eat, with a resulting deleterious effect on his muscle strength and energy level.”
According to court records, “he contends that he suffers from sleep deprivation, depression and cataracts, and he references the amputation of his leg as a ‘nightmare that will follow him to his grave.’”
“According to defendant, in 2003, he ‘turned [his] life over to God and [hasn’t looked] back.’ In 2012, defendant began working as a volunteer in prison. As part of his volunteer work, defendant has sat with dying inmates and interacted with them in their last days and hours. Defendant views his volunteerism as a way of making amends.”
Randall “Madman” Miller (bottom right) with some of his co-defendants in the racketeering case that sent him to federal prison for life.AP
“If released, defendant plans to live in New Jersey with his niece ... far away from the people he associated with before going to prison.”
Miller, now held at a prison medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, won’t comment.
His co-defendant Schneider couldn’t be located.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/8/23012034/outlaws-motorcycle-club-randall-madman-miller-hells-angels-first-step-act-mchenry-county-richmond has lots of pics and a picture of the murdered Gauger's as 1940's bikers.
The Farmhouse Murders: Case Of Milwaukee Outlaws MC Members Killing Married Couple In Illinois Cracked 20 Years Ago
By Scott Burnstein -June 3, 201702528
The disturbingly-senseless double-murder of Morris and Ruth Gauger, an elderly married couple in Illinois, was finally officially solved 20 years ago this week with the arrests of Wisconsin Outlaws Motorcycle Club members Randall (The Madman) Miller and James (Preacher) Schneider as part of a gargantuan legal assault unleashed against the infamous biker gang by the feds in the late 1990s. The Gaugers were brutally slain on their farm in 1993 in a ruthless robbery-homicide that rocked the small community of Richmond, Illinois in McHenry County.
Gary Gauger, the couple’s adult son, was originally found guilty of the crime and sentenced to the death penalty before his conviction was tossed and Miller and Schneider, both members of the Outlaws’ Milwaukee chapter, came into the picture. Miller and Schneider were two of the 17 Midwest Outlaws indicted in June of that year, the first of a staggering 1-2 punch of major busts the club endured in an eight-week span in the summer of 1997.
Milwaukee Outlaws president Kevin (Spike) O’Neill, Northwest Indiana capo and overall Midwest regional club boss Randy (Mad Dog) Yager and Southside Chicago club chief Carl (Jamming Jay) Warneke were all ensnared in the first bust, a 34-count indictment charging multiple gangland murders, attempted murders, robberies and arsons. The then-Outlaws’ Detroit-headquartered international president Harry (Taco) Bowman, the club’s dynamic, violence-obsessed leader for a majority of the 1980s and 1990s, would go on to be indicted in August.
Bowman and O’Neill are currently behind bars for life. Warneke went into the Witness Protection Program. Yager was apprehended in Mexico in 2015 after almost two decades on the run as a fugitive and pled guilty to the charges against him last year.
The June 1997 bust traced its roots back two years to the first part of 1995 and the cooperation Wisconsin Outlaw Mark (Crash) Quinn, who got caught up in a drug case and cut a deal with the feds to a wear a wire and testify in court against his biker brethren when the case reached trial. Crash Quinn was the sergeant-at-arms of the club’s State Line chapter located in Janesville, Wisconsin, near the Wisconsin-Illinois border. In addition to providing a treasure trove of other intelligence on club affairs, Quinn clued the FBI into the real story behind the murder of the Gaugers.
The day after the Gaugers were heinously butchered in the spring of 1993, Miller bragged to Quinn of killing the couple with Schneider. Quinn eventually recorded a number of conversations with Miller discussing the double homicide with Miller boasting of pulling off the “perfect crime.” Miller told Quinn, “I had it all covered, we didn’t leave spec of evidence behind.”
According to court records and trial transcripts, Madman Miller and Preacher Schneider targeted the Gaugers under the belief that 74-year old Morris Gauger, the owner of a popular motorcycle parts and repair business in McHenry County, a cluster of suburbs northwest of Chicago, kept a safe with tens of thousands of dollars inside at his farmhouse residence in Richmond. In the weeks leading up to the murders, Miller stole $1,000 in cash from a hiding place in the back of Gauger’s shop.
After staking out the property for two days, Miller and Schneider arrived at the farmhouse’s backdoor at around 6:00 a.m. on the morning of April 8, 1993 and encountered Morris Gauger tending to a chicken coup and his wife Ruth Gauger, 70, preparing coffee and breakfast. While Miller held Morris at gunpoint, Schneider took Ruth into an adjacent trailer on the property which doubled as a traveling trinket sales depot and bludgeoned her with the butt of his .357 Magnum and then slashed her throat.
Returning to the farmhouse, Miller lied to Morris and told him his wife was unharmed and tied up in the trailer and the only way he’d see her alive again was if he emptied his safe for them. Claiming he had no safe to open for them, Morris offered up a tray of silver coins that Miller threw to the ground before bashing in his victim’s head with his gun and slitting his neck ear-to-ear.
The pair of coldblooded bikers walked away from the scene with a paltry fifteen bucks that they used on breakfast in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin en route back to Milwaukee basically empty handed. Schneider, 54, flipped following his arrest and appeared alongside Crash Quinn as a star witness for the government at Miller’s 2000 trial (where Miller was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison) prior to entering the Witness Protection Program. Madman Miller is 58 years old today and resides in a federal correctional facility in southern Indiana.
Besides the Gauger slayings, Miller killed drug dealer Don (Domino) Wagner execution-style in 1992 in a dispute over money at a Burlington, Wisconsin boat dock, attempted to kill Minneapolis Hells Angel president Pat Mattar and teamed with Milwaukee Outlaws leader Spike O’Neill in a bombing campaign aimed at blowing up properties owned by Hells Angels and Hells Angels affiliate clubs in Illinois and Wisconsin from 1993-1995. Throughout the 1990s, the Outlaws and Hells Angels were in fierce combat across several Midwest states as the west coast-based Hells Angels tried pushing into the Chicagoland area, a longtime Outlaws’ administrative nerve center.
https://gangsterreport.com/the-farmhouse-murders-case-of-milwaukee-outlaws-mc-members-killing-married-couple-in-illinois-cracked-20-years-ago/
WITNESS OFFERS INSIDE LOOK AT BIKER BATTLE
By Carolyn Starks and Tribune Staff Writer
Chicago Tribune
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Apr 04, 1999 at 12:00 am
In the middle of rush hour on a crowded West Side street, three heavily tattooed men drove a car loaded with explosives onto the sidewalk in front of the Hells Angels clubhouse. (Greg: It was actually the Hell's Henchmen club house they later turned into the Chicago Hell's Angels the bombing broke windows blew the door off the clubhouse and injured passing commuters. The Outlaws later burned the place down.)
The explosion, set to a timer, reverberated for blocks, shattering windows and the heavy steel door that guarded the home of the country's most notorious motorcycle gang.
The 1994 bombing signaled one of the most violent motorcycle gang wars in recent history, between the Chicago-based Outlaws and the California-based Hells Angels, authorities said.
The war was largely invisible, though it occasionally turned so violent that it burst into headlines across the Midwest. But in a confession to federal authorities released last month, Outlaws gang member James W. Schneider offered a rare inside look into a war that raged in Illinois and Wisconsin--and into the brotherhood he ultimately betrayed.
"There were Outlaws on the East Coast as well as Hells Angels on the East Coast. But, like I say, the Mississippi River was basically a dividing point between the two clubs," Schneider said, according to his confession given in a Milwaukee federal courtroom.
"If it did get into stabbing a person or killing them and that's what it took, then we would have done that."
In 1997, federal prosecutors issued a racketeering indictment against Schneider and 16 fellow Outlaws members, alleging they committed a string of murders, bombings and robberies designed to keep the Hells Angels out of the Midwest.
Authorities likened the Outlaws--an all-male gang of white, predominantly blue-collar workers--to traditional mob crime families.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1435860.html
Sources said Schneider, the only Outlaw to plead guilty to the indictment, did so because he feared for his life and wanted the protection of federal authorities, who are holding him in an unknown location.
According to his confession, Schneider joined the gang about 1990 as a probationary Outlaw. He was soon voted in as a full member and handed the symbolic leather vest and patch--a skull with crossed pistons behind it--and an American Outlaw Association patch, which depicts the back of a hand, the middle-finger raised, with a swastika on it.
They went by nicknames: "Madman," "Manson," "Bad Bill" and "Roadkill," and their arms were tattooed with fire-spitting dragons, swastikas and spider webs. Schneider became known as "Preacher" because he didn't drink or smoke.
"We didn't really have any specific assigned responsibilities at first," Schneider said, adding that "as the years progressed and things got more violent in the war with the Hells Angels, then it was more taking care of business."
The Outlaws were organized in Chicago in the 1960s and grew to hundreds of members, mostly in the Midwest and the South. In addition to several Chicago chapters, there are Outlaw chapters in Joliet, Gary, La Crosse, Wis., and Janesville, Wis.
Illinois and Wisconsin have long been considered Outlaw territory. But in the early 1990s, the Hells Angels began a determined effort to establish chapters in Illinois and Wisconsin by converting smaller clubs, such as the Hell's Henchmen in Rockford and Chicago, to their membership, prosecutors said.
The Outlaws were furious.
"We refer to the Outlaws as bulls in a china shop. They don't use their heads when it comes to violence," said Special Agent Ron Holmes of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "The Outlaws have a history of just going in and shooting and beating and knifing and worrying about it later."
In the summer of 1994, several members of the Outlaws rode to Rockford and killed 47-year-old LaMont Mathias, the leader of the Hell's Henchmen motorcycle gang, by stabbing him in the throat, according to the indictment. Later that year, the Henchmen's Rockford clubhouse was bombed.
The gang members responsible for the bombing were allegedly awarded the SS, or Schutzstaffel, a status akin to Hitler's elite Nazi guard. "This was sort of a status symbol that they did take care of business by planting this bomb and having it go off," Schneider said.
Meanwhile, federal investigators were tracking the war and building a case against the Outlaws, authorities said. Listening devices were planted in several clubhouses, including a "bug" on a lamp in the home of Outlaw Kevin "Spike" O'Neill, who orchestrated several murders and at least a half-dozen bombings, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the only crime that wasn't directly related to the war was the slaying of Morris and Ruth Gauger, an elderly McHenry County couple whose bodies were found in April 1993 on their Richmond farm. Schneider admitted to participating in the slayings.
The indictments also brought the arrest of several high-ranking Outlaws. The war between the two rival gangs has since diminished, authorities said.
"It sort of stopped the violence because the Outlaws were taken off at the knees, though that's not to say they haven't regrouped or aligned a lot of clubs in their favor," said a Chicago police detective who investigated the case. "The Hells Angels have a foothold in the door, which is exactly what the Outlaws did not want."
But Holmes, the ATF agent who has investigated motorcycle gangs since 1979, said the restored peace is a dangerous sign that the Outlaws are no longer brutes, but rather are becoming sophisticated and collaborating with the Hells Angels.
Like their rivals, the Outlaws have lawyers and spokesmen to spin good stories about the gang, Holmes said. And they have been known to call newspapers asking for corrections on minor details about their gang and exploits.
"I think their leadership has changed. They are much more involved in making major decisions that affect all of them worldwide," Holmes said. "Any time you get a group together under the facade that they are getting along, you have some people with great intelligence calling the shots."
"If they can maintain this kind of control," Holmes said, "they can become one of the most formidable organizations as far as crime goes."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-04-05-9904050135-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gauger He was imprisoned for 2 years won his appeal was pardoned. At the time of his parents murder he was passed out drunk in the home. He foolishly signed a false confession after police lied to him and told him they had found evidence implicating him.
Some ppl have found JESUS and redeemed themselves the Apostle Paul ordered the murder of the Apostle Stephen then was converted on the road to Damascus (Went crazy from the heat?) https://www.kingjamesbibledictionary.com/Dictionary/Stephen Stephen is mentioned only 7 times in the Bible. http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/wordsr.htm Paul is mentioned 228 times second only to JESUS in the NT. Paul also wrote the most books of the Bible. He is the only Bible writer to mention Stephen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day A carol associated with Xmas mentions the Feast Of Stephen it is an official holiday in some places. Hope you enjoyed the Bible study.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-10-24-8902050968-story.html
https://gangsterreport.com/outlaws-homecoming-florida-outlaws-mc-sees-one-member-die-two-more-reborn-with-return-to-the-streets/
http://www.thorehansen.com/Chapter19-MarriedToanheiress.pdf
Randall “Madman” Miller wanted out under the First Step Act from life in prison. He took part in a couple’s killings near Richmond in 1993, slitting the man’s throat, and other violence during a war with the Hells Angels.
By Robert Herguth Apr 8, 2022, 4:00am PDT
Arrest photo of Randall “Madman” Miller, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, is serving two life sentences for a 2000 racketeering conviction that included killings, bombings and other violence.
Randall “Madman” Miller, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, is serving two life sentences for a 2000 racketeering conviction that included killings, bombings and other violence.
Randall “Madman” Miller used to thunder across the Midwest on a Harley-Davidson as a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, always ready with a knife, a gun, even a bomb.
Often, that was while defending the honor of his biker gang against the Hells Angels, the blood enemy of the Outlaws.
These days, Miller gets around in a wheelchair, not a motorcycle, while serving two life sentences in federal prison on a racketeering conviction that encompassed a series of violent crimes, including the 1993 killings of Morris and Ruth Gauger, a couple in their 70s who ran a business near the McHenry County town of Richmond.
He’s a changed man, the onetime violent biker gang member and drug trafficker has said in court pleadings and devoted to God now, with his mobility greatly limited since a leg was amputated.
Citing poor health and his fears of COVID-19 in prison, he asked U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller for a compassionate release from prison under the federal First Step Act, which, among other things, allows federal convicts to seek reductions in their sentences for drug crimes and lets elderly and sick inmates seek compassionate releases.
He recently got his answer: an emphatic no.
“Our criminal justice system has the capacity for — indeed the goal to promote — remorse and compassion,” Stadtmueller, who is based in Milwaukee and who, at Miller’s sentencing in 2000 indicated he was sorry the law didn’t allow him to impose the death penalty, said in a ruling Feb. 14. “But healing requires time and adequately served punishment.”
U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller in rejecting a request for a compassionate release from prison for Randall “Madman” Miller, whose crimes included the killings of an elderly couple in McHenry County: “Perhaps this case will one day be ripe for compassionate release, but 24 years is not yet sufficient time.”C-SPAN 2
“Perhaps this case will one day be ripe for compassionate release, but 24 years” — the time Miller has been in custody since his arrest — “is not yet sufficient time for the community’s hurt from defendant’s actions to be healed by his punishment and outweighed by his failing health,” Stadtmueller wrote. “Defendant is receiving adequate care in prison for his health needs.”
Miller, 62, is one of the many federal prisoners who have sought compassionate release, citing age and bad health, under the First Step Act, which was enacted with bipartisan support, championed by rapper Kanye West and signed into law by then-President Donald Trump in 2018.
Larry Hoover, co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang, described by prosecutors as “one of the most notorious criminals in Illinois history,” was rejected last year in his bid for release under that law.
Others who have won an early release from prison include Orville “Orvie” Cochran, a former Chicago Outlaws boss. A judge granted him a compassionate release last year, six months before his five-year sentence for racketeering conspiracy involving attacks on rival gang members was up. Cochran had cited health concerns.
Gregg Gauger, the Gaugers’ oldest son, had asked the judge in October to keep Miller behind bars.
“It shouldn’t matter if Mr. Miller were to contract the COVID virus while incarcerated,” Gauger wrote to the judge. “The essential meaning of Miller’s sentence is that he is intended to end his earthly days confined to federal prison.
“As the death penalty was not applicable to Miller’s sentence, please at this time reaffirm the life sentence without parole (or early release) that you so properly imposed at Miller’s original sentencing.”
Morris and Ruth Gauger in the mid- to late 1940s.
Morris and Ruth Gauger in the mid- to late 1940s. Randall “Madman” Miller “slit Mr. Gauger’s throat and left him to bleed to death on the floor of his shop,” according to prosecutors. They said Ruth Gauger was killed by an accomplice, “left to die on the floor of the small rug and trinket shop she operated” on the McHenry County couple’s farm.Provided
Gary Gauger, another son of the victims, initially was arrested for his parents’ killings and wrongfully convicted but eventually released from prison.
It came to light that Miller, from Pell Lake, Wisconsin, and James “Preacher” Schneider, an Outlaws member who lived in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, killed the couple, who ran a motorcycle parts business on their McHenry County farm.
Outlaws Motorcycle Club gang member James “Preacher” Schneider.
Outlaws Motorcycle Club gang member James “Preacher” Schneider.Provided
“Miller personally slit Mr. Gauger’s throat and left him to bleed to death on the floor of his shop,” prosecutors said in arguing against Miller’s early release. “Mrs. Gauger was killed by Miller’s companion and also left to die on the floor of the small rug and trinket shop she operated on the farm.”
They said: “Miller showed no compassion for either of these elderly people who were intentionally killed over what amounted to a small amount of pocket change” — about $15. “Nor did he show any compassion for the Gaugers’ adult son, who, following their murders, was wrongfully arrested for his parents’ deaths and, based on a coerced false confession, was convicted and sentenced to death.”
“The son’s case was only dismissed after the true facts of the crime were revealed by Miller’s accomplice, who pled guilty and testified against Miller.”
The federal prison medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, where Randall “Madman” Miller is being held.U.S. Bureau of Prisons
The building in Union Grove, Wisconsin, where the Outlaws Motorcycle Club chapter that included Randall “Madman” Miller met when he was an active member.Jim Slosiarek / Racine Journal Times via AP
Miller was convicted as part of a 1997 case involving 17 Outlaws members from Chicago, the suburbs, southeast Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.
According to prosecutors, among the other crimes included in the federal racketeering trial in which he was convicted, “Miller, who was proved to be among the most violent of the charged defendants, was found to have caused the homicide death of Donald Wagner, who was lured to a remote location by Miller and Outlaws associates and then executed by Miller, who shot him in the head with a .22-caliber pistol. The murder occurred over a load of marijuana.”
“Miller was also involved as a conspirator in the homicide death of Hells Angel Michael Quale, who was stabbed to death at the Erie County, New York, Lancaster Speedway. At the behest of the Buffalo Outlaw chapter president, Miller and a mob of other Outlaws and Outlaw affiliates traveled to New York to assault and kill rival bikers.”
Also, prosecutors wrote: “Miller pistol whipped and broke the nose of a female bartender during an assault and robbery at JR’s Tavern in Calumet City ... as his fellow Outlaws ordered patrons to the floor, broke glassware and fired shots inside the bar, including one that shattered the television. The massive attack ... was intended to intimidate the bar owners so that they would no longer cater to rival bikers.”
The “most horrific” of the crimes “were the homicides of Morris and Ruth Gauger.”
Gary Gauger, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his parents. Outlaws Motorcycle Club members Randall “Madman” Miller and James “Preacher” Schneider later were shown to have committed the murders.Brian Bohannon / The Courier-Journal via AP
Miller, who was described as an “enforcer” for the gang, has said in court filings he now “suffers from withering pain and a debilitating state of psychological, emotional and physical deterioration. Specifically, he points to rheumatoid arthritis, which he asserts affects his ability to use his hands and to gastroesophageal disease which affects his ability to eat, with a resulting deleterious effect on his muscle strength and energy level.”
According to court records, “he contends that he suffers from sleep deprivation, depression and cataracts, and he references the amputation of his leg as a ‘nightmare that will follow him to his grave.’”
“According to defendant, in 2003, he ‘turned [his] life over to God and [hasn’t looked] back.’ In 2012, defendant began working as a volunteer in prison. As part of his volunteer work, defendant has sat with dying inmates and interacted with them in their last days and hours. Defendant views his volunteerism as a way of making amends.”
Randall “Madman” Miller (bottom right) with some of his co-defendants in the racketeering case that sent him to federal prison for life.AP
“If released, defendant plans to live in New Jersey with his niece ... far away from the people he associated with before going to prison.”
Miller, now held at a prison medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, won’t comment.
His co-defendant Schneider couldn’t be located.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/8/23012034/outlaws-motorcycle-club-randall-madman-miller-hells-angels-first-step-act-mchenry-county-richmond has lots of pics and a picture of the murdered Gauger's as 1940's bikers.
The Farmhouse Murders: Case Of Milwaukee Outlaws MC Members Killing Married Couple In Illinois Cracked 20 Years Ago
By Scott Burnstein -June 3, 201702528
The disturbingly-senseless double-murder of Morris and Ruth Gauger, an elderly married couple in Illinois, was finally officially solved 20 years ago this week with the arrests of Wisconsin Outlaws Motorcycle Club members Randall (The Madman) Miller and James (Preacher) Schneider as part of a gargantuan legal assault unleashed against the infamous biker gang by the feds in the late 1990s. The Gaugers were brutally slain on their farm in 1993 in a ruthless robbery-homicide that rocked the small community of Richmond, Illinois in McHenry County.
Gary Gauger, the couple’s adult son, was originally found guilty of the crime and sentenced to the death penalty before his conviction was tossed and Miller and Schneider, both members of the Outlaws’ Milwaukee chapter, came into the picture. Miller and Schneider were two of the 17 Midwest Outlaws indicted in June of that year, the first of a staggering 1-2 punch of major busts the club endured in an eight-week span in the summer of 1997.
Milwaukee Outlaws president Kevin (Spike) O’Neill, Northwest Indiana capo and overall Midwest regional club boss Randy (Mad Dog) Yager and Southside Chicago club chief Carl (Jamming Jay) Warneke were all ensnared in the first bust, a 34-count indictment charging multiple gangland murders, attempted murders, robberies and arsons. The then-Outlaws’ Detroit-headquartered international president Harry (Taco) Bowman, the club’s dynamic, violence-obsessed leader for a majority of the 1980s and 1990s, would go on to be indicted in August.
Bowman and O’Neill are currently behind bars for life. Warneke went into the Witness Protection Program. Yager was apprehended in Mexico in 2015 after almost two decades on the run as a fugitive and pled guilty to the charges against him last year.
The June 1997 bust traced its roots back two years to the first part of 1995 and the cooperation Wisconsin Outlaw Mark (Crash) Quinn, who got caught up in a drug case and cut a deal with the feds to a wear a wire and testify in court against his biker brethren when the case reached trial. Crash Quinn was the sergeant-at-arms of the club’s State Line chapter located in Janesville, Wisconsin, near the Wisconsin-Illinois border. In addition to providing a treasure trove of other intelligence on club affairs, Quinn clued the FBI into the real story behind the murder of the Gaugers.
The day after the Gaugers were heinously butchered in the spring of 1993, Miller bragged to Quinn of killing the couple with Schneider. Quinn eventually recorded a number of conversations with Miller discussing the double homicide with Miller boasting of pulling off the “perfect crime.” Miller told Quinn, “I had it all covered, we didn’t leave spec of evidence behind.”
According to court records and trial transcripts, Madman Miller and Preacher Schneider targeted the Gaugers under the belief that 74-year old Morris Gauger, the owner of a popular motorcycle parts and repair business in McHenry County, a cluster of suburbs northwest of Chicago, kept a safe with tens of thousands of dollars inside at his farmhouse residence in Richmond. In the weeks leading up to the murders, Miller stole $1,000 in cash from a hiding place in the back of Gauger’s shop.
After staking out the property for two days, Miller and Schneider arrived at the farmhouse’s backdoor at around 6:00 a.m. on the morning of April 8, 1993 and encountered Morris Gauger tending to a chicken coup and his wife Ruth Gauger, 70, preparing coffee and breakfast. While Miller held Morris at gunpoint, Schneider took Ruth into an adjacent trailer on the property which doubled as a traveling trinket sales depot and bludgeoned her with the butt of his .357 Magnum and then slashed her throat.
Returning to the farmhouse, Miller lied to Morris and told him his wife was unharmed and tied up in the trailer and the only way he’d see her alive again was if he emptied his safe for them. Claiming he had no safe to open for them, Morris offered up a tray of silver coins that Miller threw to the ground before bashing in his victim’s head with his gun and slitting his neck ear-to-ear.
The pair of coldblooded bikers walked away from the scene with a paltry fifteen bucks that they used on breakfast in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin en route back to Milwaukee basically empty handed. Schneider, 54, flipped following his arrest and appeared alongside Crash Quinn as a star witness for the government at Miller’s 2000 trial (where Miller was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison) prior to entering the Witness Protection Program. Madman Miller is 58 years old today and resides in a federal correctional facility in southern Indiana.
Besides the Gauger slayings, Miller killed drug dealer Don (Domino) Wagner execution-style in 1992 in a dispute over money at a Burlington, Wisconsin boat dock, attempted to kill Minneapolis Hells Angel president Pat Mattar and teamed with Milwaukee Outlaws leader Spike O’Neill in a bombing campaign aimed at blowing up properties owned by Hells Angels and Hells Angels affiliate clubs in Illinois and Wisconsin from 1993-1995. Throughout the 1990s, the Outlaws and Hells Angels were in fierce combat across several Midwest states as the west coast-based Hells Angels tried pushing into the Chicagoland area, a longtime Outlaws’ administrative nerve center.
https://gangsterreport.com/the-farmhouse-murders-case-of-milwaukee-outlaws-mc-members-killing-married-couple-in-illinois-cracked-20-years-ago/
WITNESS OFFERS INSIDE LOOK AT BIKER BATTLE
By Carolyn Starks and Tribune Staff Writer
Chicago Tribune
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Apr 04, 1999 at 12:00 am
In the middle of rush hour on a crowded West Side street, three heavily tattooed men drove a car loaded with explosives onto the sidewalk in front of the Hells Angels clubhouse. (Greg: It was actually the Hell's Henchmen club house they later turned into the Chicago Hell's Angels the bombing broke windows blew the door off the clubhouse and injured passing commuters. The Outlaws later burned the place down.)
The explosion, set to a timer, reverberated for blocks, shattering windows and the heavy steel door that guarded the home of the country's most notorious motorcycle gang.
The 1994 bombing signaled one of the most violent motorcycle gang wars in recent history, between the Chicago-based Outlaws and the California-based Hells Angels, authorities said.
The war was largely invisible, though it occasionally turned so violent that it burst into headlines across the Midwest. But in a confession to federal authorities released last month, Outlaws gang member James W. Schneider offered a rare inside look into a war that raged in Illinois and Wisconsin--and into the brotherhood he ultimately betrayed.
"There were Outlaws on the East Coast as well as Hells Angels on the East Coast. But, like I say, the Mississippi River was basically a dividing point between the two clubs," Schneider said, according to his confession given in a Milwaukee federal courtroom.
"If it did get into stabbing a person or killing them and that's what it took, then we would have done that."
In 1997, federal prosecutors issued a racketeering indictment against Schneider and 16 fellow Outlaws members, alleging they committed a string of murders, bombings and robberies designed to keep the Hells Angels out of the Midwest.
Authorities likened the Outlaws--an all-male gang of white, predominantly blue-collar workers--to traditional mob crime families.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1435860.html
Sources said Schneider, the only Outlaw to plead guilty to the indictment, did so because he feared for his life and wanted the protection of federal authorities, who are holding him in an unknown location.
According to his confession, Schneider joined the gang about 1990 as a probationary Outlaw. He was soon voted in as a full member and handed the symbolic leather vest and patch--a skull with crossed pistons behind it--and an American Outlaw Association patch, which depicts the back of a hand, the middle-finger raised, with a swastika on it.
They went by nicknames: "Madman," "Manson," "Bad Bill" and "Roadkill," and their arms were tattooed with fire-spitting dragons, swastikas and spider webs. Schneider became known as "Preacher" because he didn't drink or smoke.
"We didn't really have any specific assigned responsibilities at first," Schneider said, adding that "as the years progressed and things got more violent in the war with the Hells Angels, then it was more taking care of business."
The Outlaws were organized in Chicago in the 1960s and grew to hundreds of members, mostly in the Midwest and the South. In addition to several Chicago chapters, there are Outlaw chapters in Joliet, Gary, La Crosse, Wis., and Janesville, Wis.
Illinois and Wisconsin have long been considered Outlaw territory. But in the early 1990s, the Hells Angels began a determined effort to establish chapters in Illinois and Wisconsin by converting smaller clubs, such as the Hell's Henchmen in Rockford and Chicago, to their membership, prosecutors said.
The Outlaws were furious.
"We refer to the Outlaws as bulls in a china shop. They don't use their heads when it comes to violence," said Special Agent Ron Holmes of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "The Outlaws have a history of just going in and shooting and beating and knifing and worrying about it later."
In the summer of 1994, several members of the Outlaws rode to Rockford and killed 47-year-old LaMont Mathias, the leader of the Hell's Henchmen motorcycle gang, by stabbing him in the throat, according to the indictment. Later that year, the Henchmen's Rockford clubhouse was bombed.
The gang members responsible for the bombing were allegedly awarded the SS, or Schutzstaffel, a status akin to Hitler's elite Nazi guard. "This was sort of a status symbol that they did take care of business by planting this bomb and having it go off," Schneider said.
Meanwhile, federal investigators were tracking the war and building a case against the Outlaws, authorities said. Listening devices were planted in several clubhouses, including a "bug" on a lamp in the home of Outlaw Kevin "Spike" O'Neill, who orchestrated several murders and at least a half-dozen bombings, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the only crime that wasn't directly related to the war was the slaying of Morris and Ruth Gauger, an elderly McHenry County couple whose bodies were found in April 1993 on their Richmond farm. Schneider admitted to participating in the slayings.
The indictments also brought the arrest of several high-ranking Outlaws. The war between the two rival gangs has since diminished, authorities said.
"It sort of stopped the violence because the Outlaws were taken off at the knees, though that's not to say they haven't regrouped or aligned a lot of clubs in their favor," said a Chicago police detective who investigated the case. "The Hells Angels have a foothold in the door, which is exactly what the Outlaws did not want."
But Holmes, the ATF agent who has investigated motorcycle gangs since 1979, said the restored peace is a dangerous sign that the Outlaws are no longer brutes, but rather are becoming sophisticated and collaborating with the Hells Angels.
Like their rivals, the Outlaws have lawyers and spokesmen to spin good stories about the gang, Holmes said. And they have been known to call newspapers asking for corrections on minor details about their gang and exploits.
"I think their leadership has changed. They are much more involved in making major decisions that affect all of them worldwide," Holmes said. "Any time you get a group together under the facade that they are getting along, you have some people with great intelligence calling the shots."
"If they can maintain this kind of control," Holmes said, "they can become one of the most formidable organizations as far as crime goes."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-04-05-9904050135-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gauger He was imprisoned for 2 years won his appeal was pardoned. At the time of his parents murder he was passed out drunk in the home. He foolishly signed a false confession after police lied to him and told him they had found evidence implicating him.
Some ppl have found JESUS and redeemed themselves the Apostle Paul ordered the murder of the Apostle Stephen then was converted on the road to Damascus (Went crazy from the heat?) https://www.kingjamesbibledictionary.com/Dictionary/Stephen Stephen is mentioned only 7 times in the Bible. http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/wordsr.htm Paul is mentioned 228 times second only to JESUS in the NT. Paul also wrote the most books of the Bible. He is the only Bible writer to mention Stephen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen%27s_Day A carol associated with Xmas mentions the Feast Of Stephen it is an official holiday in some places. Hope you enjoyed the Bible study.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-10-24-8902050968-story.html
https://gangsterreport.com/outlaws-homecoming-florida-outlaws-mc-sees-one-member-die-two-more-reborn-with-return-to-the-streets/
http://www.thorehansen.com/Chapter19-MarriedToanheiress.pdf
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