Fbi Seeks Body Of Neo-Nazi Arrest Of Kehoes Prompts Search Near Sandpoint For Former Associate

Investigators are looking in North Idaho for the body of a neo-Nazi skinhead from California who may be a murder victim.

The missing man is John Cox, about 25, from Sacramento.

He was an associate of former federal fugitives Cheyne and Chevie Kehoe, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

The search was prompted by information developed after the arrests last month of the Kehoe brothers, wanted in Ohio for shooting at law enforcement officers.

Cox’s name surfaced during follow-up work in the Kehoe investigation by agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Late last week and again on Tuesday, federal agents and Bonner County sheriff’s deputies searched two locations north of Priest River and Sandpoint.

The searches were fruitless, authorities said.

One was conducted near Upper Pack River, close to where Bonner County sheriff’s deputies found the body of another missing skinhead.

Jeremy C. Scott, 24, who had lived in the Sandpoint area since 1993, was shot once in the head in July 1995.

His badly decomposed body was recovered last August by sheriff’s detectives after the arrest of federal fugitive Faron Lovelace.

Lovelace, a 39-year-old bank robber who escaped from a Wisconsin prison, led authorities to the spot where Scott was buried.

Charged with first-degree murder, Lovelace said he will plead guilty if there are no appeals on his behalf and he is quickly executed for Scott’s murder.

Cheyne Kehoe surrendered in Colville on June 16 and provided the FBI with information leading to the arrest of his brother, Chevie Kehoe, the next day in Utah.

The Kehoe brothers and one of their associates who used to live in Spokane are also under scrutiny from Arkansas detectives investigating an unsolved triple murder.

, DataTimes