An alleged white supremacist in Kansas killed a black woman who threatened to “tell everyone” that he’s HIV positive, authorities said.
Ronald Lee Kidwell, 47, told police that the violence erupted when MeShon Cooper, 43, of Kansas City, Missouri, attacked him in his home after making the threat to expose his HIV status, according to an
affidavit obtained by the Kansas City Star.
Kidwell said Cooper threatened him and then pulled a knife from her purse before striking him in the left hand, prompting him to “flip out” and retaliate, the affidavit states.
“When I get mad, I make the exorcist look like a bytch,” Kidwell said, according to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office.
At some point during the struggle, Kidwell said, he gained control of Cooper’s knife and fatally stabbed the woman, who had been missing from Kansas City since July 6. Kidwell gave the statement to authorities after a joint investigation by police departments in Shawnee, Lenexa and Kansas City led officers to Kidwell’s home on July 14, according to the newspaper.
Phone records indicated that Cooper had visited Kidwell’s house the day she went missing and police found an “overwhelming smell of bleach” during a search of Kidwell’s home, according to the affidavit.
Kidwell initially told police he was unaware of Cooper’s whereabouts before claiming she was killed by someone in Kansas City. He later told police he “would never be released from prison” after confessing the truth and leading investigators to a trash can in his garage, where Cooper’s body was wrapped in trash bags, according to the affidavit.
Carolyn Foster, Kidwell’s estranged daughter,
told the newspaper that Kidwell has bragged about being in the Ku Klux Klan and would proudly show off a swastika tattoo on his left arm. He even once threatened to kill Foster and her three children “if I ever spoke to a person of color,” she told the newspaper.
“He’s been a monster his whole life,” Foster said. “He’s a true definition of evil.”
