The Woman who Seduced White Supremacists
How Carol Blevins helped bring down around 1,300 violent members of the Aryan brotherhood
James “Skitz” Samsell was considered to be the most influential person in America’s top violent street gang: the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT). Fueled with swastikas and Confederate flags, they did it all. Peddled drugs, murdered innocent people, and controlled all of Texas through a militarized-style system that destroyed anything in its path.
At this point, the DOJ had indicted every other senior officer in this white supremacist gang, which included dozens of generals, majors, captains, and other foot soldiers.
But the feds needed Skitz - and Carol Blevins was the only way.
The Honey-Pot Trap
Known as a “featherwood,” Carol had already made rounds throughout the Aryan brotherhood, befriending most members and dating some. Conservatively, Carol helped put 1,300 members of ABT behind bars.
But Carol knew what she would face if Skitz caught her - the ABT’s murder of 19-year-old Breanna Taylor was still fresh on most member’s minds.
Accused of working with the police, gang members clipped a battery charger to Taylor’s genitals and tortured her. They poured acid down her throat, cinched zip ties around her neck, and watched her for 20-30 minutes convulsing on the floor. Her corpse was dismembered, cemented into a plastic tub, and dumped in Lake Ray Hubbard.
Regardless, Carol agreed to work with the feds and ended up dating Skitz. Her spy work gave everything to the feds, from the ABT’s strategy for moving meth with Mexican cartels to serial numbers on stolen guns.
She would send texts of pre-empted murders and interrupted robberies. She led police to drug drop houses, snapped photos connecting criminals to unsolved crimes, and informed police of timelines to arrest men ready to inflict violence.
She even wrapped her work up by setting up Skitz to get arrested after a routine drug deal in a Walmart parking lot, with the buyer being an FBI agent.
Because of Carol, the feds put away 36 ABT members in one case. Carol now lives every day in hiding and fear, with feds citing that the ABT general issued an order to 3,500 gang members across Texas to:
“Find Carol and kill her”.
“The Girl-Next-Door” to the Government Spy
Carol grew up in a middle-class family. She played basketball and volleyball and marched on her high school’s varsity drill team. She danced six days a week for a decade, doing ballet, tap, and jazz.
But early into her life, Carol fell into heroin and crystal meth addiction. Beginning her career as a stripper led her down a path of addiction and eventually led her to date Michael “Crash” Bianculli - her first boyfriend in ABT.
A rising ABT officer was also secretly working with the police. Crash commanded a few hundred ABT soldiers and transported about $20,000 worth of drugs through North Texas weekly.
A day after meeting Carol, he called her his “featherwood.” A servant, an object to be passed amongst the brothers and his girlfriend. “Aryan Princess” became her nickname throughout the organization. Carol lived a life of contradiction - one side of her was an unapologetic, racist featherwood oozing contempt for Black and brown people. Another side of her was risking her life to put some of the nation’s most violent supremacist men in prison.
Alas, little did Micheal know that she would take down the remainder of the Aryan brotherhood.
The lead-up…
There was no climactic moment for Carol. After “Crash” was arrested for double-crossing the feds and ABT, she wasn’t left with much choice.
From 2002-2012, the ABT had murdered at least 29 people that law enforcement knew of, more than any extremist group in the nation. Twelve of those times, the executions were done because its members suspected members of “snitching” to police.
After Crash, Carol needed a way in with Skitz since he was the last major member left outside prison in the ABT. Lucky for her, his wife had just left him, and since he always had a thing for Carol, he gave her a call. The rest is history.
He had a feeling Carol was onto him as a “snitch,” and he told her multiple times that he would torture and kill her for hours if he found out. She didn’t care. Up until the final day of his getting arrested at the Walmart parking lot, she worked with the feds to take the rest of the ranking members of ABT down.
The End of an Era
Carol ended a 6-year investigation, with 73 arrested and 100% of the supremacist group convicted. Conservatively, the Dallas News investigation concluded that she assisted in the arrest of about 1,300 members of ABT. Love or hate Carol, her work with the feds broke down the most violent gang group in the nation, and the feds left her out to dry.
Agents initially said she’d be paid about $40,000 and receive a government pledge of about $25,000 if her father, mother, and sister moved to Canada. However, federal money for the move dried up, forcing Homeland Security’s office to fund Carol’s relocation. They scaled her pay back to $1,500 a month.
She is now living in constant hiding, getting a few hundred dollars a month from disability and charity from her father whilst continuously batting her ever-growing drug addiction.
Wrapping it up…
Carol Blevins played a pivotal role in dismantling the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), one of the most dangerous white supremacist gangs in the U.S.
Despite her struggles with addiction and her involvement with the racist supremacist group, Carol became an invaluable asset to the federal authorities. By infiltrating the gang and building relationships, especially with key members like James "Skitz" Samsell, she helped secure the convictions of 73 individuals. She brought down a violent network that had been terrorizing Texas for years.
Now in hiding, Carol lives in fear, with the constant threat of retaliation hanging over her. Her story is a testament to the complexity of human behavior, showing how someone from such a tumultuous background could play a critical role in taking down one of the nation's most dangerous extremist organizations.
They owe her a lot
Even if they *had* paid her, which at the very least they should've, the permanent damage to her mentally physically and emotionally should never happen to anyone. Thank you, Carol.