Donald Eugene Chambers

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Donald "Don" Eugene Chambers (born November 23, 1930 , † July 18, 1999 in El Paso , Texas ; nickname: Mother ) was an American rocker and the founder of the Bandidos motorcycle club . After returning from the Vietnam War , he founded the club in San Leon , Texas in 1966 . He was later convicted of the murder of two drug dealers and served a life sentence until he was released in 1983.

Life

Chambers served as a Marine in the Vietnam War. When he returned to Texas after the war, he became a member of several motorcycle clubs, which, however, were too harmless for his taste. Chambers therefore founded his own club, the Bandidos, in San Leon in March 1966. He chose the colors red and gold as a reminder of his membership in the Marine Corps. Two years later he founded the second chapter in Corpus Christi, Texas .

In 1972, Chambers, along with Jesse "Deal" Fain and Ray Vincente, kidnapped the two drug dealers Marley Leon and Preston LeRay Tarve in El Paso, Texas. The two had sold the Bandidos sodium carbonate instead of methamphetamine . They drove the two dealers into the desert north of El Paso and forced them to dig their own grave. They then shot the two men with shotguns and set their bodies on fire. Chambers, Deal and Vincente were charged with the murder and all three were identified as perpetrators by testimony. All three men received life imprisonment.

After Chambers went to jail, Ronald Jerome Hodge, also an ex-Marine, was named national president of the Bandidos. Hodge was previously known as " Mr. Prospect " because he had only become a full member a month earlier. Based on Chambers' nickname "Mother" (dt. 'Mother') he was called after the appointment "Stepmother" (dt. 'Stepmother').

In 1983 Chambers was released from prison and left the club. He settled in El Paso, where he died on July 18, 1999.

literature

  • Allison Hanes: Fellow bikers killed delinquent Angels . In: National Post . Don Mills, Ontario April 11, 2006, p. A.6 .
  • Alex Caine: The Fat Mexican: The Bloody Rise of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club . Allen & Unwin, 2010, ISBN 978-1-74237-382-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephen L. Mallory: Understanding Organized Crime . Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7637-4108-2 , pp. 156 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Stephen Schneider: Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada . John Wiley and Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-83500-5 , pp. 420 .
  3. ↑ Dick Reavis: Never Love a Bandido . In: Texas Monthly . No. 7 . Emmis Communications, May 1979, ISSN  0148-7736 , p. 102 .
  4. ↑ Gilles Dupont: Les Bandidos déferlent (The Bandidos are spreading). (No longer available online.) Le Bien Public, July 20, 2010, archived from the original on July 22, 2010 ; Retrieved on July 21, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bienpublic.com
personal data
SURNAME Chambers, Donald Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chambers, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rocker
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1930
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1999
Place of death El Paso, Texas