William "Bill" Sexson

Mr. Sexson is a retired Supervising, United States Probation Officer having served both the Alexandria and Lake Charles Divisions of the Western District of Louisiana and the Fayetteville and Harrison Divisions of the Western District of Arkansas.  He has extensive experience in all levels of law enforcement, local, state and federal, in dealing with both adult and juvenile offenders.  He has served as Juvenile Officer/Investigator with the Leesville, Louisiana Police Department and as Chief, Juvenile Probation Officer with the Washington County, Arkansas Juvenile Court.  As a Department of the Army civilian employee he was a Training Specialist and Counselor for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program, a Psychiatric Technician specializing in crisis intervention cases and as an EEOC representative.  In addition, Mr. Sexson served as Alcohol and Drug Control Officer at Fort Polk, Louisiana and Fort Jackson, South Carolina.  In that capacity he also served as Civilian Program Coordinator, Employee Assistance Program Coordinator, Risk Reduction Supervisor and Suicide Prevention Coordinator.  While at Fort Jackson he was presented the Commander’s Medal for exceptionally meritorious service as Alcohol and Drug Control Officer.  Mr. Sexson also served as Executive Director of the Central Louisiana Juvenile Detention Facility Authority. 

As a United States Probation Officer, Mr. Sexson was recognized as an expert in federal guideline sentencing and upon request of the faculty provided instruction to students at the University Of Arkansas Law School on the proper application of the federal sentencing guidelines.  In addition he has received commendations for his expertise in cases involving domestic terrorism and outlaw motorcycle gangs.  He also has extensive experience in the investigation and monitoring of various domestic terror groups such as the Posse Comitatus, the Order and the Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord. 

He investigated and monitored the activities of individuals who harbored fugitive tax protestor Gordon Kahl.  Kahl had murdered two United States Marshals and was Americas most wanted fugitive at the time.  Kahl was eventually located in Sexson’s area of supervision and was killed in a shootout with law enforcement officials.  Kahl was a member of the Posse Comitatus and he became the first martyr of the white supremacist movement.  The Posse Comitatus subsequently evolved into the Militia, Constitutionalist, Sovereign Citizen Movement.

During this period of time Sexson had the opportunity to work with Chief United States District Court Judge H. Franklin Waters, former United States Attorney Asa Hutchinson, and FBI Special Agent Jack Knox all of the Western District of Arkansas. Waters, Hutchinson and Knox along with others associated with the federal court system were targeted for assassination by members of the Aryan Nations, the Order and the Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord (CSA).  Hutchinson would subsequently be elected to serve the people of Arkansas as a United States Congressman.  While in Congress Hutchinson was chosen by President Bush to serve as Director of the Drug Enforcement Administration.  Following the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster he was chosen to serve as Deputy Director of Homeland Security.  He eventually resigned to run for Governor of Arkansas.

The Order and the CSA have been recognized by law enforcement officials as the two most violent domestic terror organizations in the history of the United States.  In addition to planning the assassinations of Waters, Hutchinson and Knox, they murdered several law enforcement officers, attempted to blow up a gas pipeline across the Red River near Texarkana, an electrical transmission facility near Fort Smith and numerous churches.  CSA member Richard Wayne Snell was involved in the assassination plot as well as the murders and the bombings.  In 1983, Snell and other members of the CSA planned to bomb the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the same building destroyed by Timothy McVeigh 12 years later.  Snell was executed in Arkansas for the murder of a Texarkana pawn shop owner and an Arkansas State Trooper on April 19, 1995.  It was no coincidence that McVeigh bombed the Murrah Building on the same day.  Snell became the fourth martyr of the white supremacist movement following his execution. 

Robert Matthews, the leader of the Order was killed in a shootout with federal agents at Whidbey Island, Washington where FBI Special Agent Norm Stephenson had located him.  Shortly thereafter, three hundred federal and state law enforcement officials surrounded the 240 acre CSA compound just Northwest of Mountain Home, Arkansas.  CSA leaders James Ellison and Kerry Noble were taken into custody along with numerous others to include fugitive members of the Order. Sexson prepared the pre-sentence investigation and sentencing recommendations on the CSA members.  He made numerous trips to the CSA compound during the course of his investigation and provided pre-trial supervision on those released on bond.  Hutchinson and Sexson were instrumental in convincing United States District Judge Oren Harris to require all members to vacate the compound.  This effectively closed down the CSA.  Sexson is in a select group of law enforcement officers as very few have been in an active white supremacist compound.  Especially one considered to be the most dangerous in the history of the United States.

FBI Special Agent Stephenson subsequently transferred to Harrison, Arkansas where he worked with Sexson in monitoring the various white supremacists in the area. Eventually all surviving members of the Order and the CSA were incarcerated or on some form of supervision with the United States Probation Office.  Sexson was also involved in the investigation, monitoring and sentencing of members of the Order because many of them had ties to Arkansas and CSA.  Because Denver, Colorado talk show host Alan Berg was murdered by members of the Order, and the weapon used was made at CSA, Sexson was involved in that investigation.

In 1988, the leading members of the white supremacist movement were tried at Fort Smith on charges of seditious conspiracy and planning to assassinate Waters, Hutchinson, and Knox.  Testimony at trial revealed the plot to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building.  Sexson was a courtroom observer during the trial and attempted to interview several members.  All defendants were subsequently found not guilty.

Sexson has shared what he has learned about domestic terrorist organizations with law enforcement, both military and civilian, and correctional officers along with individuals associated with organizations such as the National Major Gang Task Force, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Correctional Association.

Sexson has also been involved in the investigation, monitoring and supervision of the Hell’s Angels and Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.  During the course of a pre-sentence investigation Mr. Sexson discovered information involving a nationwide murder for hire scheme, a case that has been featured on Court TV.  In addition, he has worked cases involving organized crime and drug trafficking.  He has also been involved in several high profile cases.  One such case involved Roger Clinton brother of then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.  In 1988 Sexson was publicly recognized by Governor Clinton for the professionalism he displayed as Roger’s supervising probation officer following Roger’s probation violation hearing. 

In addition, Sexson received recognition from the United States District Court and the United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas for his efforts in uncovering a conspiracy to circumvent the criminal justice system saving the taxpayer and the court the cost of a lengthy and time consuming trial.

Although not selected, Sexson was recommended to the White House in 2001 for Presidential appointment as United States Marshal for the Western District of Louisiana.

Sexson has served as a teacher/coach in the Vernon Parish, Louisiana school system and as a criminal justice instructor at Central Texas College at Fort Polk and SOWELA Technical Community College, Lake Charles, LA.  Sexson established a domestic terrorism course while at SOWELA.  He is also a Veteran of the United States Army.

Sexson, a graduate of Leesville High School, has a BA degree from Northwestern State University and an MA degree from Louisiana State University.  He has completed additional graduate work in criminal justice at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana and Troy University, Troy, Alabama.

Bill and his wife LaWanda (BA NSU 74, MS NSU 80) have been married for 35 years and have four daughters and six grandchildren.

Special Interest:  Domestic Terrorism, Juvenile Delinquency, Drug Abuse, Court Systems and Processes, Probation/Parole, Multicide, and Domestic, Workplace and School Violence.