Edgar Steele, the north Idaho attorney who first gained notoriety for defending Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler and was later imprisoned for plotting to kill his wife, is dead. He was 69. The federal prison in Victorville, California, has listed him as deceased Sept. 4 and officials have notified Steele’s wife, Cyndi Steele, according to news releases. Information regarding the manner of Steele’s death is pending. He had reportedly been in declining health for weeks. Cyndi Steele never believed that her husband was involved in a murder-for-hire scheme to kill her and her mother. But a Boise jury convicted Steele of four felonies for paying his handyman in silver to kill Steele’s wife and mother-in-law with a car bomb/SR. More here. (SR File Photo: Edgar Steele, then attorney for Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations, speaks to press after Kootenai County verdict that bankrupted Aryans)

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