KKK member pleads guilty to obstruction

Shane Foster, the son of alleged KKK Imperial Wizard Raymond “Chuck” Foster, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice Thursday afternoon, admitting to the role he played in the death of a prospective klan member.

Foster entered the plea during what was supposed to be a motions hearing in District Judge Reginald Badeaux’s courtroom.

Foster was charged with obstruction of justice in a case involving the murder of Oklahoma woman Cynthia Lynch, whom detectives believe his father, Raymond Foster, shot at a campsite in Sun after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation exercise.

His father has been charged with second-degree murder and is set to go to trial later this summer.

Lynch reportedly traveled to the area by bus from Tulsa, Okla., last November to join the Sons of Dixie Brotherhood chapter of the KKK, which is allegedly led by the elder Foster.

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

The younger Foster was originally deemed incompetent to stand trial and had to attend rehabilitation and counseling to educate him on basic laws and the judicial process, before moving forward with his trial.�