Alleged KKK wizard trial continued again

The case of accused murderer Raymond “Chuck” Foster’s trial will likely not go to trial until next spring.

The alleged imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was set to appear before state Judge Peter Garcia on second-degree murder charges Thursday.

However, Rick Wood, spokesman for District Attorney Walter Reed, said the defense requested the case be continued to a later date.

He said typically murder cases take a long time to put together and come to trial, and he did not foresee this one being ready until sometime in the spring at the earliest.

A new trail date has been set for Feb. 1.

Foster has been charged with the murder of an Oklahoma woman, Cynthia Lynch, whom detectives believe was shot at a campsite in Sun after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation exercise.

Lynch reportedly traveled to the area by bus from Tulsa, Okla. last November to join the Sons of Dixie Brotherhood chapter of the KKK.

Authorities believe she was undergoing an initiation ceremony at a remote campsite when she backed out at the last minute and was shot.

The case was discovered when Frank Stafford and Shane Foster entered a convenience store near Bogalusa and asked the clerk how they could get rid of bloodstains from clothes. The clerk informed the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office. The campsite where the crime was allegedly committed is in northern St. Tammany Parish so the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office took charge of the investigation.

Stafford pleaded guilty in April to an obstruction of justice charge in the same case and is currently serving four years in prison.

Danielle Jones pleaded guilty in June to accessory after the fact. She was sentenced to one year in jail.

The court just recently deemed Shane Foster competent to stand trail after he had to be educated on basic laws and the judicial process.

He is set to go to trial in state Judge Reggie Badeaux’s courtroom Feb. 22.

The grand jury failed to return with an indictment against four other individuals who were also arrested in the case.