87 Facts About Wayne Kellestine

The journalist Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent for The Toronto Star, wrote that Kellestine is a pathological liar and though he is of German descent, there is no evidence to support his claims that his ancestors were Hessians.

Wayne Kellestine has likewise frequently claimed to have served in the Canadian Army, but Edwards wrote that this claim is false.

Wayne Kellestine has a long criminal record going back to 1967.

In 1978, Wayne Kellestine was considered a suspect in the murder of Giovanni DiFilippo, although he was never charged.

Wayne Kellestine was allowed to start the Annihilators Motorcycle Club based in St Thomas, which existed as a puppet club to the Outlaws chapter in London.

In 1982, Wayne Kellestine left Thorndale and purchased for $50,000, a farm near Iona Station at 32196 Aberdeen Line, buying another 52.33 acres of adjoining farm land in 1987.

Wayne Kellestine's farmhouse was disorderly with rusting automobiles lying on the front lawn, through the farmhouse itself with unpainted pine finishing in the kitchen; stone fireplace in the living room; and a sauna and cedar hot tub in the basement was described as charming and cozy.

In 1984, Wayne Kellestine paid a $700 fine after he was convicted of assaulting a bouncer in a London, Ontario bar.

In 1985 Wayne Kellestine was arrested after being found with some $350,000 worth of cocaine and LSD together with an unregistered handgun, but the case was not pursued in the courts.

Wayne Kellestine became the president of the Annihilators, having at first founded a gang called the Holocaust before becoming the Annihilators president.

In 1989, at a motorcycle show in London, Wayne Kellestine got drunk, assaulted a police officer, and attempted to flee by hijacking a limousine, leading to a car chase down the streets that ended at the Outlaws' clubhouse and his arrest, an incident that confirmed his "wild man" reputation.

In June 1991, Wayne Kellestine shot Thomas Roger Harmsworth, a biker with the Outlaws gang, putting four bullets into his body, and was charged with attempted murder.

O'Neil was wanted for the murder of police constable Scott Rossiter on 19 September 1991, and it is generally believed that Wayne Kellestine was in some way involved with O'Neil's murder and led the police to his body in exchange for the charges of attempted murder against Harmsworth being dropped.

O'Neil had often visited Wayne Kellestine's farm looking for shelter after he killed Rossiter.

Wayne Kellestine found that answer hysterically funny and lowered his gun.

In early 1992, Wayne Kellestine sold a handgun, cocaine and ecstasy pills to an undercover policeman.

On 12 March 1992, during a police crackdown codenamed Project Bandito on both the Annihilators and the Outlaws, Wayne Kellestine was arrested at his farm outside of the hamlet of Iona Station, being found drunk and high in his living room surrounded by guns, cocaine, cash and Nazi memorabilia.

An evaluation by the prison psychologist done on 11 January 1993 declared about Wayne Kellestine "Criminality appears to be a matter of choice of lifestyle" for him and that he was a paranoid narcissist.

Wayne Kellestine was sentenced to six years in prison as a result of the Project Bandito charges.

The parole board twice denied Wayne Kellestine's applications, citing concerns that he had repeatedly failed drug tests while in prison.

Wayne Kellestine's murder was never solved, but Edwards wrote that rumors in Iona Station claimed she had "done something to annoy Weiner Kellestine shortly before her murder".

Wayne Kellestine was much feared in south-western Ontario, being widely seen as a wild-man with an extremely bad temper and an unpredictable streak.

Alongside his criminal activities, Wayne Kellestine was widely known in Iona Station for being a racist, an anti-Semite and a homophobe with his farmhouse full of Nazi memorabilia.

Wayne Kellestine traveled to London every year to protest the local Gay Pride Day by waving the Confederate battle flag.

Besides farming, Wayne Kellestine ran a security firm whose name, Triple K Security with the three Ks that were prominently displayed on his business cards were a conscious evocation of the white supremacist group.

Wayne Kellestine's body was found buried in a swamp outside the Forest City as London is often called.

On 2 June 1999, the Annihilators Motorcycle Club based in St Thomas led by Wayne Kellestine joined the Loners club based in Woodbridge led by Gennaro "Jimmy" Raso.

In face of the challenge from the Hells Angels, Wayne Kellestine decided he needed allies, and with the Outlaws being unwilling to accept him, he had decided to merge with the Loners instead.

Atkinson came away from party convinced that Wayne Kellestine's intelligence was very low, saying he acted in a very reckless manner by showing a stranger his gun cache.

Wayne Kellestine was opposed to having the Loners join the Hells Angels because he knew that the Hells Angels would accept most of the Loners' chapter, but never him.

The Hells Angels offered to have the Loners "patch over" to become Hells Angels, but Wayne Kellestine refused the offer, expelling all of the Loners who wanted to join the Hells Angels and had one pro-Hells Angels Loner beaten and pistol-whipped before he was expelled.

One of the Loners, Jimmy Coates, had a brother, John, who was a member of the Sherbrooke chapter of the Hells Angels, and together the Coates brothers worked against Wayne Kellestine, attempting to foment a mutiny against Wayne Kellestine's leadership of his chapter of the Loners.

On 22 October 1999, in a drive-by shooting, a pro-Hells Angels Loner Davie "Dirty" McLeish and a Quebec Hells Angel from Sherbrooke, Philippe "Philbilly" Gastonguay, opened fire with a shotgun on Wayne Kellestine, who was sitting in his truck at a stop at the only intersection in Iona Station.

In July 2002, Wayne Kellestine was sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of 22 counts of violating the laws governing guns, after the police discovered various illegal firearms at his farm in 1999.

Muscedere often favored Wayne Kellestine by having Bandido meetings at his farm, despite the fact that most of the Toronto chapter lived in the greater Toronto area and resented the two hour drive to Iona Station.

The fact that Wayne Kellestine did not own a working Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which was a major violation of the Bandido rules, while pressing for others to be expelled for not having a working Harley-Davidson motorcycle, made him unpopular.

When Sandham indicated he wanted to join the Bandidos, one of the Bandido leaders, Frank "Cisco" Lenti, was highly suspicious of him, saying he kept hearing rumors that Sandham used to be a policeman and that he had been rejected by the Outlaws for that reason, and assigned Wayne Kellestine to investigate him.

However, Wayne Kellestine reported that the rumors were not true, and Sandham had never been a policeman.

Wayne Kellestine told the owner, Marty Angenent, that he was unhappy that "business is not like it used to be".

In June 2005, Wayne Kellestine shot one of his home films at his farmhouse.

Edwards wrote that the way that Wayne Kellestine focused the attention onto himself even the camera was pointed at others reflected his narcissism.

In September 2005, Wayne Kellestine told Sandham that if he wanted to wear Bandido patches, he should just make his own, even though Bandido rules stated that anyone who wore a patch not supplied by Houston would be expelled.

Wayne Kellestine believed what Sandham had told him, and this bit of misinformation turned Wayne Kellestine against the "no surrender crew".

Wayne Kellestine had been ordered by Houston to "pull the patches" on the "no surrender crew" or be expelled himself.

In March 2006, Wayne Kellestine asked the Winnipeg chapter for help.

Wayne Kellestine, who frequently consumed the drugs he was supposed to sell and who was deeply in debt, with the bank frequently threatening to foreclose on the farm he bought in 1982, had discovered that selling methamphetamine was a lucrative business, and was greatly annoyed when Muscedere had ordered him to stop selling methamphetamine, on the grounds that it was wrong.

Wayne Kellestine believed an alliance would make him rich, as he held contacts with many of the methamphetamine makers in the countryside around Stratford while Sandham claimed to have underworld contacts in Winnipeg.

The indebted Wayne Kellestine frequently complained that the other members were more interested having the chapter serve as a social club rather than as a money-making concern, which echoed the feelings of the American leadership of the Bandidos.

At his trial in 2009, Sandham testified that Price who was representing Pike had told him that Muscedere and the rest of the "no surrender crew" were to be killed with Wayne Kellestine to become the new leader of the Canadian Bandidos as the reward.

Sandham assured his followers that Wayne Kellestine had plenty of guns at his farm, but he brought along a bullet-proof vest and a box of surgical gloves, saying he needed them to leave no fingerprints on the guns that Wayne Kellestine would provide.

Wayne Kellestine was surprised by Sandham's visit, but he quickly took charge of his guests and provided them with weapons from his hidden cache of arms he kept at his farm.

Wayne Kellestine produced what he called his "wet work kit" for cleaning up after murders, consisting of hydrochloric acid and rubber gloves, saying he always used his "wet work kit" after he killed somebody.

Wayne Kellestine had met Mather in prison and provided him with a home for himself and his pregnant girlfriend, Stefanie.

Wayne Kellestine treated the junior Bandidos like Aravena and Gardiner like slaves, expecting them to do all of his housework for them.

Gardiner was a man of very limited intelligence, whom Wayne Kellestine had once asked to supply him with pickles from a "pickle tree" growing on his farm, which led him to spend hours looking for the elusive "pickle tree" before telling Wayne Kellestine that he couldn't find it.

Aravena recalled that Wayne Kellestine would smile and say "mm-mm good" before eating excrement, which led him to the conclusion that Wayne Kellestine was a "little bit of a weirdo".

At the beginning of April 2006, Wayne Kellestine accused one of the "no surrender crew", Jamie Flanz, of being a police informer.

Wayne Kellestine stated that Sandham and some other members of the Winnipeg chapter were staying with him, which was intended as a "bait" as knew that relations between Muscedere and Sandham were very poor.

One of the bikers invited to the meeting, Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli, in the week preceding the meeting was overheard by the Ontario Provincial Police listening in on his phone conversations repeatedly trying to find an excuse not to visit Wayne Kellestine's farm, saying he was feeling unwell.

Wayne Kellestine instructed his guests to stay in the middle where he had cleared out some space.

Muscedere in response led his followers into the Lord's Prayer for Raposo, which caused Wayne Kellestine to stop singing and instead dropped to one knee to join them.

Wayne Kellestine then told Aravena to get him beer and water for the rest.

Wayne Kellestine told Aravena to tell the men on the roof everything was fine, which confused Aravena as there was no-one on the roof.

Wayne Kellestine told Mather to shoot Muscedere, who was the prisoner he feared the most, if he tried to get up.

When Wayne Kellestine returned, he ordered George Jessome to sit in a plastic lawn chair, placed a blanket over him and gave him a cigarette.

Wayne Kellestine then turned his attention towards Sinopoli and told him it was his only fault he was shot, saying he did not want to hurt him, but had been forced to shoot him when he tried to flee from the barn, going on to repeat his statement he hoped they were still friends.

Wayne Kellestine then demanded that all of his prisoners hand over all of their Bandido gear starting with their vests with the Bandidio patches.

Wayne Kellestine seemed to find this remark most amusing he as broke out laughing.

Wayne Kellestine then began to sing Das Deutschlandliedagain and ordered Jessome out of the barn, telling him to use his tow truck to move Raposo's automobile.

Wayne Kellestine drank heavily over the course of the night and ranted to his prisoners about his grievances with them.

Several times, Wayne Kellestine asked Muscedere to join him despite the way he was attempting to depose him as national president, but he firmly declined, who instead asked for an ambulance be called for Sinopoli and Kriarakis, who were bleeding to death.

Muscedere defended Flanz from charges of being disloyal; Wayne Kellestine was an admirer of Nazi Germany and had issues with the Jewish Flanz.

Finally, Wayne Kellestine decided to execute the "No Surrender crew" and they were all taken out one by one and shot execution-style, in what the Ontario Court of Appeal described the killings as "an execution assembly line".

Between dancing his jig while singing Das Deutschlandlied and executing his prisoners, Wayne Kellestine would go over to torment Flanz.

Wayne Kellestine shot him in the head at point-blank range, followed by another shot to his chest.

At this point, Wayne Kellestine began to rant about how he was such a hard worker who was doing such a great job killing the "no surrender crew", who were not thankful for his hard work, as if he expected them to appreciate his work in killing them.

Later that day, Muscedere's younger brother, Cesideio, called Wayne Kellestine to ask him if he knew anything about his brother's murder.

When Wayne Kellestine finally came out, he was taken to the local OPP station for questioning.

Ballistic tests showed some of the guns found in Wayne Kellestine's cache were the murder weapons.

The floor of Wayne Kellestine's barn was found to be soaked in hydrochloric acid from Wayne Kellestine's "wet work kit".

Wayne Kellestine was defended by Clay Powell, a Toronto lawyer best known for defending Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones after he was arrested for heroin possession in Toronto in 1977.

Wayne Kellestine shared the same cell block at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre with the child killer Michael Thomas Rafferty, charged with killing 8-year-old Victoria Stafford, which led Wayne Kellestine to complain to the media about being forced to share the same cell block with him, saying that either Rafferty should be moved to another cell block or placed in the same cell with him so he could murder him.

Wayne Kellestine appealed his verdict under the grounds that his collection of Nazi paraphernalia including the authentic "German swastika flag" he had hanging in his barn should not have been introduced as evidence at the trial.

Wayne Kellestine is currently serving a life sentence for first degree murder with no chance of parole for 25 years.

In 2014, Wayne Kellestine sought to appeal his guilty conviction, claiming that he was poorly served by Powell and that his reputation made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.

One who knew him stated "that's just Wayne Kellestine being Wayne Kellestine" as he made various complaints about prison life such as having to wear a prison uniform and living in segregation.

In December 2019, south-western Ontario was thrown into a state of fear when it was reported that Wayne Kellestine had escaped and was roaming about London, Ontario.