{"id":1856,"date":"2012-08-02T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/next-on-the-white-power-chopping-block-daniel-wacht\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T17:21:55","slug":"next-on-the-white-power-chopping-block-daniel-wacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/next-on-the-white-power-chopping-block-daniel-wacht\/","title":{"rendered":"NEXT ON THE WHITE POWER CHOPPING BLOCK: DANIEL WACHT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DanielConvicted of killing and beheading a North Dakota researcher to win points with Aryan Nations. This specimen of bad genes will spend the rest of his life in prison for it, no parole.<\/h3>\n

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Associated Press<\/h2>\n

COOPERSTOWN, N.D. \u2014 A man convicted of shooting and beheading a North Dakota State University researcher in an alleged attempt to start a white supremacist group will spend the rest of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n

Judge James Hovey sentenced Daniel Wacht on Wednesday to life in prison with no parole. Wacht’s attorney, Steven Mottinger, had asked for life with the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

Wacht, 31, declined to speak at the sentencing and showed no emotion as his sentence was handed down.<\/p>\n

A jury in April found Wacht guilty of murder in the death of Kurt Johnson, 54, who was last seen alive outside a Cooperstown bar on New Year’s Eve 2010. His severed head was found in a crawl space in Wacht’s basement. His body has not been found.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Wacht killed Johnson to prove his worth to the Aryan Nation, and that there were “layers of evidence” to convict Wacht, including a loveseat cushion soaked in Johnson’s blood found in Wacht’s garage.<\/p>\n

Mottinger disputed the alleged motive and said there was no way to prove that Wacht pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n

Johnson was an NDSU researcher based in Cooperstown, a community of fewer than 1,000 people about 75 miles northwest of Fargo.<\/p>\n

His brother, Korwin Johnson, on Wednesday said his brother’s killing was a “senseless, brutal crime.”<\/p>\n

Mottinger said he will appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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