Pubdate: Tue, 11 Apr 2006
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2006, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://torontosun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Jack Boland, Toronto Sun
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EX-BIKER THINKS METH FUELLED KILLINGS

The man who was instrumental in bringing the Bandidos to Canada  
scoffed at the police notion that the biker massacre was "internal  
cleansing."

"That is bullsh--," Ed Winterhalder, the former president and  
secretary of the Oklahoma chapter of the Bandidos, said yesterday.

Winterhalder believes the murders of the bikers were fuelled by  
somebody on methamphetamine.

"The person who did the killing must have been a meth-head,"  
Winterhalder said. "Usually they have been up for three or four days  
and sleep deprivation does some strange things to you."

In Tulsa, Okla., where Winterhalder lives, the city has two Bandidos  
chapters -- one "hard-working guys" and the other "meth-heads" -- who  
are feuding with each other and who "hate each other's guts," he said.

"Each side thinks the other shouldn't be wearing the (Bandidos)  
patch," said Winterhalder, who believes this might be the scenario  
that occurred in Shedden, leaving  eight dead.

Yesterday, Wayne "Weiner" Kellestine, a full member of the Canadian  
Bandidos, was charged with first-degree murder, along with four  
associates.

Kellestine and most of the murdered bikers had been members of the  
Toronto Loners before they donned the Bandidos' "Fat Mexican" patch  
in May 2001, Winterhalder said.

"Half that Loners chapter became Hells Angels and we courted the  
other half -- and it took us a while to get these guys to change  
over," he said. "And in that pile came Weiner, Crash (Gus Kriarakis),  
Porkchop (Louis Raposo), Bam Bam (Frank Salerno) and Boxer (John  
Muscedere)."

Winterhalder said he was "saddened" by the loss of the  men he still  
considers biker brothers, even though he himself was banished from  
the gang in September 2003,  considered "Out in Bad Standings" --  
which is also the  title of his tell-all book.

"My friendship is there still with Boxer and Porkchop.  I housed them  
down at my house down here. Very saddened that they went," said  
Winterhalder.

"But you gotta realize in the past three years I've  buried about 100  
of my friends."

Winterhalder hesitated when asked whether the members will be given a  
"full Bandido" funeral.

"I don't think there are enough Bandidos up there to pull it off,"  
Winterhalder said. "I would doubt it, to be honest with you. It is  
gonna be sad.

"I'd be surprised if you could put five guys together (in the Toronto  
chapter)."
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