If you’re not already familiar with the Juggalos, the learning curve can

If you’re not already familiar with the Juggalos, the learning curve can be steep. OK, so there’s these two guys named…Insane Clown Posse? Well that’s weird. So they dress up like clowns and have a legion of followers who call themselves…whatsitcallit? The Juggalos? Oh gosh. I think I need to lie down. Even worse is when fans of the horror-rap outfit start murdering people.Steven Bauder considers himself a Juggalo. You can tell because he’s got a tattoo of a running hatchet man, ICP’s blood-soaked symbol.Popular Google search: “What is a Juggalo?”One day, a sociologist is going to publish some seminal work on Juggalo culture. But for the time being, what you need to know is that Juggalos tend to be young, white, poor and, like members of any gang, prone to meting out justice on their own terms.Our story begins on a night in 2008, when Bauder, then 22, and a friend, Marcus Dennis, tried to “straighten out” Noel Lopez.Bauder must be some kind of tough. Because according to him, friends in Seattle called him in from Oregon in order to knock some sense into Lopez, 25, who was allegedly “treating people wrong.”The night began with a wrestling match. Bauder and Lopez grappled for the title of “King of Freeway Park.” Bauder won.During some post-brawling drinking, Bauder and Dennis allegedly lured Lopez to a nearby construction site saying they wanted to have a chat. Bauder says Lopez lunged at him, at which point he and Dennis beat the man for several hours.They allegedly kicked him in the head, hit him with a metal pipe and broke boards over his head. Lopez lost consciousness. Two days later, construction workers found his body. He had died from massive trauma and a broken rib that punctured his lung.Bauder and Dennis were brought in after an acquaintance overheard the men allegedly bragging about the murder at a local youth homeless shelter. Both have been charged with first-degree murder and will be standing trial later this month.