The Dixie Brotherhood is a small, loosely organized group of people who associate themselves with the Ku Klux Klan. The group was accused of killing a woman on November 9, 2008, whom they brought on a camping trip with them. The group reportedly killed the woman after she asked to be taken back to town. Daily Mail: Ku Klux Klan recruit shot dead... (November 12, 2008)
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The group is located in Louisiana
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Police do not know what the ceremony involved
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The victim has not been identified
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She lived in Oklahoma and arrived in the Slidell, Louisiana, area last week and was met by two people connected to the Klan group
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She was to return to Oklahoma to recruit members for the white supremacist group
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The ritual was to take place at a remote camp ground 60 miles north of New Orleans
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Police think she was killed after she asked to leave the campground
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The woman's body was found hidden under some brush, on the side of a road several miles from the remote Louisiana campsite where the initiation was planned Daily Mail: Ku Klux Klan recruit 'shot dead after she asked to leave an initiation ritual' (November 12, 2008)
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Several flags and six Klan robes were found at the campsite
