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Shawna Forde

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    July 8, 2011

    Shawna Forde Accomplice, Albert Gaxiola, Final Defendant to be Convicted in AZ Double Murder

    Gaxiola, Bush, Forde​The reputed lover of former Seattle prostitute and Minuteman leader Shawna Forde is now scheduled to join her and Wenatchee white supremicist Jason Bush on Arizona's death row for the 2009 slayings of a man and his daughter in a robbery-turned-bloodbath. Albert Gaxiola, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Jason Bush, Wenatchee White Supremacist, Guilty in AZ Murders, Gets Death (Update)

    Bush​UPDATE, April 7: Jason Bush and Shawna Forde, together again. The Wenatchee white supremacist joined the ex-Seattle prostitute on Arizona's death row yesterday after a jury decided he, like she, should die for the slayings of a man and his daughter in a 2009 robbery-turned-bloodbath, repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Shawna Forde, The Movie: She Likes Nirvana's 'Team Spirit'; the Death Penalty, Not So Much

    ​Her mother had nine children with five men, then left her with friends who gave her to other friends. Her sister loves her but can't forgive her. Her daughter learns from a letter that Mom is facing the death penalty. Those are some of the details from A Cycle of Fences, the Shawna Forde movi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Jason Bush, Wenatchee White Supremacist, Offering No Defense in Arizona Homicides

    Bush​Who would say this about Jason "Gunny" Bush, the Wenatchee white supremacist now on trial in Arizona in the Shawna Forde-led Minutemen murders: " . . . his character is evil, demented, and unconscionable . . . He will be found guilty of the senseless and demented murder of a 9-year-old gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Shawna Forde Murder Case Update: Ex-Everett Council Candidate Sentenced to Death in AZ

    Forde​Update, Feb. 22 An Arizona jury that convicted former Everett city council candidate Shawna Forde a week ago today agreed to sentence her to death for two counts of first-degree murder. The Arizona Daily Star says defense attorney Jill Thorpe, in asking jurors to spare Ford's life, said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Shawna Forde Trial Moves Into the Tucson Spotlight With Bizarre Opening Week (Video)

    ​Now in its second week, the Arizona Minuteman murder trial of ex-Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde has become predictably weird, momentarily eclipsing talk of Tucson's other headline murderer, Jared Loughner. No longer the "fat white" blonde identified at the scene of a May 2009 trailer-home ro ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    The Loughner/Forde Parallel

    Accused killers "don't just snap."

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Jared Loughner, Like Shawna Forde, Turns Out to Have Been No Surprise to Some Arizonans

    Giffords​Not that you can't see these things coming. Shawna Forde, the ex-Seattle prostitute who was supposed to be Tucson's big crime story this week, was tipping her hand long before she was accused of killing a father and his nine-year-old daughter last year, both shot in the head during an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Shawna Forde, Facing Arizona Murder Trial in January, Strategically Prefers Cell to Courtroom

    ​The Arizona murder trial of former Seattle prostitute and Everett city council candidate Shawna Forde is set to begin in a few weeks, followed in a few months by the murder trial of accused triggerman Jason Bush of Wenatchee. Bush is thought to have admitted his role and may be seeking a plea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Arizona Deputy's Shooting Draws New Fire

    ​The story about an Arizona sheriff's deputy who may have faked a shooting to increase racial tensions over the state's new immigration bill - written by Seattle Weekly sister paper Phoenix New Times and published as well by SW - is getting national attention and, more importantly, local resul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Shawna Forde/Gunny Bush Mexican Border Murder Trials Delayed in Arizona Until 2011

    Forde​The two Washington white supremacists charged in the double murder of a Latino father and daughter in Arizona won't be going to court this year after all. The trial of Jason Bush of Wenatchee has now been moved to next March while his co-defendant, former Seattle prostitute and Everett c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Shawna Forde Case: FBI Warned About Plot?

    ​Lost among other immigration news out of Arizona this week were reports that informants had ratted out ex-Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde to the FBI before she allegedly led a robbery and double murder by her tiny band of Minutemen last year. The question now is why didn't the agency, if told ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Glenn Beck, Meet Your Neighbor Shawna Forde

    ​It could turn into a lifelong series if we began correcting the mistakes of Fox News commentators. So in this case we'll leave it to Shawna Forde, the pride of Everett, to correct Glenn Beck, the pride of Mount Vernon. (Pride having since turned to deep, regretful, abhorrent, how-could-we-hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    'The Conspiracy Against Conservative America and the Torture of Shawna Forde': The Video

    ​That's the headline on Laine Lawless's YouTube plea to free Shawna Forde, the ex-Seattle prostitute and Everett council candidate turned accused double murderer. Lawless (real name Roberta Dills) heads the Committee for Justice for Shawna Forde and devotes a web site to the ex-Minutemen Ameri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Gun Guru Alan Gottlieb's Latest Fund Raising Effort Raises Money for His Fund Raiser

    Steven DewallGottlieb: "Fear, hate, and revenge" pay off​As SW reported last year, Bellevue gun-rights guru Alan Gottlieb tends to personally benefit from the side businesses connected to his Second Amendment Foundation's political activities. He was paid $36,000 as SAF's vice-president in 200 ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    More-Than-15-Minute Woman

    Anti-immigrant activist Shawna Forde’s notoriety only grows in Arizona.

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Minuteman Shawna Forde: Poster Girl For Arizona Immigration Law Battle

    A militia wet dream​It was only a matter of time before ex-Seattle prostitute and accused double-murderer Shawna Forde became a symbol in the national controversy over Arizona's intimidating new SB 1070 Hispanic shakedown law - a symbol to both sides. Opponents of the law cite ex-Minuteman le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    From Border Watchers to 'Bama Watchers: Minutemen Retrain Sights in Wake of Shawna Forde Murder Charges

    Forde, in a socialist prison​Thanks in part to the double murder charges filed in Arizona against ex-Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde, one of the country's largest Minutemen border-patrol groups is killing itself off. Unfortunately, thanks in great deal to Barack Obama living up to a campaign p ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2009

    Cold-Blooded Streak

    Forde, in a socialist prison​Thanks in part to the double murder charges filed in Arizona against ex-Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde, one of the country's largest Minutemen border-patrol groups is killing itself off. Unfortunately, thanks in great deal to Barack Obama living up to a campaign p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Minutemen Murders: Shawna Forde's Sideman Jason Bush a Serial Killer? Linked to Six Slayings/Attempts

    Jason Bush, prefers the name "Gunny"​Investigators in Washington and Arizona probing the Shawna Forde Minutemen murders now appear to have uncovered a serial-killer's trail of bodies leading from Chelan County to the Mexican border. Court documents show that Jason "Gunny" Bush, Forde's alleged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Shawna Forde, Pals Ready to Give Each Other Up?

    Shawna Forde stands accused of a double-murder in Arizona.​So much for honor among thieves, and accused murders: Shawna Forde, the Everett Minutemen leader facing double murder charges in Arizona, is pointing the finger at her two co-defendants, who are pointing back at her and each other. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    And the Shawna Beat Goes On

    ​It was back in June that Merrill Metzger, half-brother to renegade Minutemen leader Shawna Forde, told SW he'd figured out who tried to kill Forde's husband: It was the man she was dating at the time. "My son and I looked at each other: 'Why, he looks just like the man in the police sketch, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2009

    Shawna's No Killer, Just a Conservative White Lady

    ​Accused double murderer Shawna Forde, the white woman from Everett who thinks brown immigrants from Mexico are filthy violent thugs, is innocent and being prosecuted because, like Sarah Palin, she's a right-wing caucasian female, according to a new website formed in her defense. The Arizona D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Minuteman Forde: Lethal Injection if Convicted

    ​Arizona prosecutors say they will indeed seek the death penalty against onetime Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde, along with Wenatchee white supremacist Gunny Bush and a third man, in the desert slayings of an alleged Mexican drug dealer and his child. The Arizona Star also reports that accuse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Minuteman Suspected of 4th Slaying

    ​The accusations continue to pile up against Jason Bush (left), the Wenatchee white supremacist accused of accompanying Everett Minutemen leader Shawna Forde in the Arizona desert robbery and shootout that left a Mexican man and his 9-year-old daughter dead last month. Authorities now count fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Shawna Who? Minutemen, Pols Know Nothing

    Down in Phoenix, Stephen Lemons writes in New Times, Seattle Weekly's sister paper, how Minuteman groups and assorted politicos are still rushing forth to disown Shawna Forde, the Everett-born border vigilante and accused double-murderer profiled in this week's SW (it's also the cover story at Phoen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    'Gunny' and the Desert Killings: I Did It

    Today's SW story about the vigilante murders in Arizona focuses on Shawna Forde, the onetime Everett city council candidate, beauty school protest leader, and former Seattle prostitute - the "fat white woman" accused of masterminding the slayings of a Mexican man and his 9-year-old daughter in Ariva ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2009

    Cover Story: Lethally Blonde

    How a former teen prostitute and beautician from Everett became an influential anti-immigrant crusader—and alleged murderer.

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