A fifth 'Misfit' is accused of murdering two Kansas women. Last year, he declared extremist beliefs

Earlier DU threads:
• This is terrible
• Members of self-proclaimed anti-government group 'God's Misfits' held in killings of Kansas women

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Source: Kansas Reflector

A fifth ‘Misfit’ is accused of murdering two Kansas women. Last year, he declared extremist beliefs

MAX MCCOY
MAY 5, 2024 3:33 AM

On the afternoon of July 6 last year, Paul Grice went to the county clerk’s office at the Cimarron County Courthouse at Boise City, Oklahoma, and paid $104 to file a peculiar document in an attempt, among other things, to renounce his U.S. citizenship.

You may have heard of Grice, a member of an anti-government group in the Oklahoma panhandle called “God’s Misfits,” because he was recently the fifth member of the group to be charged with the murder of a pair of Kansas women in connection with a custody battle.

But the custody dispute is only part of the story. It appears the Misfits may have embraced reckless and vengeful violence as an extension of their apocalyptic religious beliefs that children are property and that no government or other human institution can interfere in parental authority.

Grice had turned 31 a few days earlier, so maybe he was thinking about his place in this world — and perhaps the next. We don’t know exactly what was on his mind when he walked into the historic red brick courthouse at the center of town to deliver his bundle of papers, but the story told by the 35-page document is of a world vastly different from the one the rest of us inhabit.

Grice’s world was based not on reality but instead spun from poisonous conspiracy theories, ...

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Read more: https://kansasreflector.com/2024/05/05/a-fifth-misfit-is-accused-of-murdering-two-kansas-women-last-year-he-declared-extremist-beliefs/

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/fifth-misfit-accused-murdering-two-083319850.html