Self-Proclaimed Aryan General Assigned to Holdenville Prison

After Conviction for Murder of Gay Oklahoma City Resident

January 8, 2009

By Wayne Fuller

Darrell Lynn Madden, who pled guilty on October 9, 2008 for the murder and kidnapping of gay Oklahoma City resident Steven Domer, has been classified a maximum security risk for the killing at the Lexington Assessment and Receiving Center and sent to a private prison called Davis Correctional Facility (DCF) in Holdenville, Oklahoma.

DARRELL MADDEN

Prior to a plea agreement with Oklahoma County prosecutors there was a discussion that Madden would face the death penalty for the 2007 homicide, but the arrangement satisfied Domer’s family and prevented a lengthy trial. This, also, prevented a fuller inquiry into the claim that Madden was attempting to gain entry into the Aryan Brotherhood.

Domer was last seen alive by a friend on October 26, 2007 on Oklahoma City’s gay strip. His burned out car was found four days later in McLain County followed by the discovery of his body, which had been bound and tortured.

Madden has also been given life sentences for the murder of Bradley Qualls, who assisted him in the crimes against Domer, placing bodily fluids on a government employee and assault and battery on a police officer.

Since beginning a wave of serious offenses starting with Domer’s kidnapping on the 39^th Street Strip, Madden has racked up a life without parole, four life sentences, and three shooting with intent to kill sentences. Although he will be eligible for parole in 2046 for the life sentences, the life without parole sentence means he will spend the rest of his natural life confined to prison. 

Such a record would normally see the guilty housed at the state’s only official maximum security prison in McAlester, but in a recent contract between the state and Corrections Corporation of America part of the DCF facility was dedicated to maximum security use. Gossip Boy has contacted the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and the Davis Correctional Facility’s warden, James Keith, and neither are willing to discuss why Madden was transferred to what many consider areas physically designed for lower security risks and not constructed to hold the type of threat Madden may pose.

Madden has a long list of Aryan-related tattoos including swastikas and Satanic images and ones that say “God’s grace is the white race” and “KI Squad Skinhead”.  The convicted murderer has claimed to be a general with the Aryan Brotherhood, but a previous lifestyle including working as a hustler in the gay district of Oklahoma City and the allegations that he was lovers during an earlier incarceration with Qualls, a person of mixed heritage, raises doubts to that. Additionally, if the murder was an initiation rite into the Aryans, then Madden could not have already been a general.

The Aryan Brotherhood is considered to be a white prison gang, but inmates leaving the system have brought their beliefs to the outside world. In prison their activities include the prostitution of other inmates, extortion, murder-for-hire, and drug sales.

Besides the Aryans, there are additional hate groups recognized

 in Oklahoma by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The pair meant in prison while Qualls was serving time for car theft and burglary and Madden was in for obtaining money by false pretenses. Madden killed Qualls in Ardmore days after the Domer murder before battling police in the street gunfight that led to his capture.

[Editor’s Note: After Madden’s conviction in October, Domer’s family asked that there be no further press inquiries, so Gossip Boy did not contact them for comment on this story.]