“North Dakota seemed like it was going to be very peripheral (to the KKK movement),” Kimberly Porter said. “I don’t know if it would have existed if it hadn’t been for that one rabble-rouser.”
The questions and controversy over how he was killed in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2007, was investigated by Forum Communication Co.'s Dakota Spotlight podcast.
While the agreement shocked the victim's family, other cases were cited during the sentencing process, leading the state to avoid recommending "a sentence that was drastically different."